In the Media

"We see Japan, South Korea, and Europe as key growth markets, with multiple tailwinds set to drive future demand for hospitality real estate," Stephen McCall, Managing Director, Real Estate Europe, says in a new IREI feature on unlocking opportunities in the hospitality sector. In this feature, Stephen and co-author Souad Cherfouh, Lead Investment Research, talk about the key regional trends shaping the sector, how we identify opportunities in Europe, and our strategic partnership with Trinity Investments.

In a guest contribution for Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Head of Infrastructure Esther Peiner talks about the benefits of investing in infrastructure and some of the themes we are watching in the space. With the asset class now also available in an evergreen structure, individual investors can now also access this investment opportunity.

In this new keynote interview with PERE, Eric Shepsman and Henrik Orrbeck, our co-heads of real estate for the Americas and Europe respectively, take an in-depth look at the residential housing markets on each side of the Atlantic. Eric and Henrik discuss common growth drivers, how we identify attractive markets for investment, and which subsectors, such as student housing or senior living, are performing the strongest.

Nicholas Kuys and Ismail Afara from our Infrastructure team in APAC and Europe respectively spoke with Infrastructure Investor about the rapid growth of the data center market in these regions. In this wide-ranging interview, Nicholas and Ismail discuss the drivers for the rising data demand and how investment opportunities outside of the mature US data center market are becoming ever more attractive.

The huge growth of the private credit asset class has created a vast set of opportunities across different vintage years for secondaries transactions. The need for liquidity amongst LPs following lower distributions in recent years has further turbocharged this secondary market. Henri Lusa, Callum Smith, and TJ Bakshi from our Private Credit business spoke to Private Debt Investor about the transaction landscape, where we see innovation, and why we believe the private credit secondaries market is here to stay.

Our Head of Royalties, Stephen Otter, sat down with Private Equity International to talk about the latest trends across the private markets royalties asset class. In this interview, Stephen outlines why a cross-sector investment approach is our preferred model, why we believe royalties investing is best suited to evergreens, and where we see innovation in the market.