ASIC’s new super enforcement and surveillance remit includes a focus on trustee competence and oversight that has led the regulator to investigate a “pocket of trustees” it believes is involved in misconduct, Karen Chester has revealed.
The senior investment leader describes the governance challenges as “huge” for funds moving into alternative asset classes because of the complexity and also because of the gap between the best and worst performing general partners and investment managers.
Offshore is becoming attractive for funds willing to look outside the traditional staples of the asset class as long as they have the right team picking the right assets, a panel of consultants has discussed.
For those who review manager issued documentation on sustainability it is largely apparent that many fund managers are still developing their TCFD reporting, Alex Wise says.
While hospitality assets that were convention oriented will probably take longer to recover back to pre-COVID levels, these activities will come back and this mega trend will continue, Blackstone’s Kathleen McCarthy says.
The dislocation caused by Covid will push along growth in specialty real estate fundamentals at the same time as managers are improving their systems and liquidity enters the market, Heitman’s Caleb Mercer says.
It’s the inefficiency inherent in real estate that provides opportunities for investors to take advantage of illiquidity and price discovery at certain inflection points, AXA’s Justin Curlow explains.
The pandemic and its associated lockdowns have inspired a rapid pivot towards more effective digital communications and remote working, accelerating a trend that was already in play, Lendlease’s Micah Schulz says.
Environmental Social and Governance policies are commonplace in global investment firms, but addressing risks to physical assets like property take investment teams deeper in their due diligence and studies of investment risk, experts explore.
Remote learning and widespread US university closures completely recalibrated student housing prices and offered the Florida-based firm opportunities to snap up premium new developments.
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This session considers the opportunities associated with speciality investments in Europe and the propensity for this market to mirror the US’s trends exhibited by similar assets.
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