It has long been established that buildings are responsible for over one third of all resource consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. With real estate being the biggest asset class, sustainable investing in property seems like an obvious thing to do. Like so often, however, the real challenge lies in the execution, and in particular in the credible assessment of true sustainability.
Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago with an area of nearly 2 million square kilometers. It consists of five major islands, namely Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Papua, and is divided into 34 provinces. Based on the latest numbers in 2016, 258 million people are living in Indonesia, making it the fourth most populated country in ...
Over the next decade, emerging Asia will invest around 5 to 6% of its GDP per year into infrastructure related projects. This translates into approximately USD 750 to 900 billion of new investment each year. Infrastructure investment has both short- and long-term benefits for a country's GDP as it helps to increase productivity, cut costs of econo...
Supported by exceptional economic and business conditions, returns on equities and bonds during the past 30 years were considerably higher than the long-term trend. The high returns over the past decades in Western regions stemmed from declines in inflation and interest rates from unusually high levels in the 1970s and early 1980s, from strong GDP...