
The Professor

Is Gen Z turning against Western Civilization?
The younger generations seem increasingly crazed. A worrying proportion of the young sympathises with those who launch terror attacks against Israel, supports the immediate elimination of...
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The Analyst
A resilient New Zealand construction sector
The world has changed since we released our last New Zealand construction sector report in August 2021. Inflation and interest rates continuing to rise, and the Reserve Bank is...

Head Of Research
Uncovering a US-sized opportunity to reduce the built environment’s carbon footprintPremium
Over recent months, colleagues and I have been working on our latest piece of research analysing artificial intelligence use cases for the real estate sector’s environmental transition. What becomes clear at the outset is that there are, and have been, a large number of them. This goes back much further than the hype cycle we have seen play out since the public launch of ChatGPT on 30 November 2023.

Investor's Notebook
Slow but Steady Results at BAT and UnileverPremium
Results season is getting underway and two of the UK’s largest defensive stocks have continued to face economic headwinds.

Investor's Notebook
ESG + Real Estate + BenchmarkingPremium
The last few weeks have seen a flurry of sustainability and ESG-related events from coast to coast, such as Climate Week NYC.

The Storyteller
What recent Netflix shows – including The Crown and Beckham – got wrong about the British press
Twelve years after the Leveson inquiry and the closure of News of the World, the British press are having a reckoning on Netflix. Recent celebrity documentaries Beckham...

Head Of Research
One year on, what have we learned from ChatGPT?
On 30 November 2022, the world was introduced to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a large language model (LLM) AI, initially intended as a “research preview” to seek feedback from the public....
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Making money from residential property investment

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