China’s East Coast became wealthy over the past decades thanks to its access to the sea and hence to global trade. Today, the Belt-and-Road initiative starts to link China’s inland cities to the intercontinental trading routes. The augmented revival of the Silk Road raises the strategic importance of those cities and further enhances their strong economic growth.
As a younger generation enters the workforce in Asia’s metropolises, various concepts catering for a trendy lifestyle, and at the same time increasing urban density, are emerging in the real estate sector. This phenomenon is further driven and supported by a long-term urbanization trend in Asia. One of the main reasons to live and work in a city is
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 t...
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 econom...
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 ...