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Get your Fact(or)s right, how investors can boost alpha in their REITs allocations
Investors in listed real estate can harvest more alpha form their allocations by exposure to factors that drive returns of real estate
Ahead of the curve, impact of freight volumes on logistics rents
Changes in freight volumes is an important indicator of future rental growth prospects for logistics markets a year in advance.
Share of declining logistics locations in Europe has doubled compared to 5 years ago
The share of freight handling locations across Europe experiencing declining volumes has doubled compared to 5 years ago. This is likely to result in a wider range of return outcomes for investors with exposures to the sector with the impact likely to become more noticeable in the coming quarters and as leases roll over for assets located in the proximity of those locations if economic conditions do not improve.
Logistics geolocation analytics
Geolocation analytics can help investors to better understand their asset exposures, improve decision making and ultimately optimize their logistics allocations.
Consistency, consistency, consistency in REITs alpha generation
The Kania Global Real Estate CAI Index, an alternative beta index based on factors relevant to real estate and real estate securities and not general equity market factors, has generated a significant and consistent live outperformance to benchmark of appox +450bps per annum, consistently over 1-, 3- and 5-year time periods.
Is geo(location) impact coming to logistics?
Should investors be more selective now as market conditions change rapidly due to changing economic environment and at the same time a significant rise in transportation costs. Geolocation might become an increasingly important factor and competitive advantage in logistics during the next phase of the cycle.
Flood Risks in Listed Data Centers REITs
Data centers are vital to any organization’s operations. Organizations centralize IT operations and equipment, store, process, and disseminate data and applications and their proprietary assets in data centers. In this note, we estimate physical climate change risks related to floods in global listed data centers REITs.
