global property

Japan was the strongest market from a regional perspective for global listed real estate during Q2 as solid fundamentals combined with increased corporate governance...

A confusing macroeconomic backdrop It’s been a volatile year. High inflation, along with actual and expected high interest rates, have roiled markets across...

Pandemic Property Price Pop: Globally, property prices have been juiced to historically expensive levels thanks to pandemic (over)stimulus. As an indication of just...

COVID might have tragically disrupted business as usual in the aged care sector but there are opportunities for investors as the sector regains its health. In this...

As we approach the end of 2021, views on how we live, work and play in a post-COVID world are becoming clearer. Uncertainty remains but our base case at First...

The collapse of Lehman Brothers is widely credited with triggering the global financial crisis. In 2008, bad debts spread throughout the global financial system came...

As interest rates hover at historic low levels, investors are being starved of income from traditional fixed income sources. Investors are taking on more risk and are...

In the current low-interest-rate environment, investors are on the hunt for consistent income, but they don't want to forego the returns seen from some of the major...

The year 2020 was extraordinary for most risk assets. As we wrote in last month’s Livewire, the unprecedented fiscal response to the pandemic caught some investors...

Recent market-sensitive events, including the outcome of the US presidential election and Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine announcement, have resulted in some...

We are in the midst of a one-in-100-year pandemic, and unemployment has reached levels not seen since the Great Depression. And while market observers continue...

Is government debt bad or good? What it means The government fiscal response to COVID-19 and the associated forced shut-down of the economy has been...

Investor risk-on behaviour that was clearly on display in the first quarter 2019 continued in April. Risk assets performed strongly across the board, particularly in...

Whether you’ve heard of it or not, ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) investing is already big business. Bank of America claims it has doubled in the past few...