SPONSORED: EG Funds Management — What investors need to know before entering the Australian market

There are definitely income-generating opportunities for institutional real estate debt investors to be found in Australia, but investors would be wise to be prepared to view them through the lens of equity, according to report by EG Funds Management, “The good, the bad and the ugly of commercial real estate debt opportunities in Australia,” which was published in the September issue of Institutional Real Estate Asia Pacific. Chris Pak, joint managing director and CIO with EG, explains why the firm has chosen to pause its equity investments in favor of real estate debt opportunities: “EG has chosen not to do a real estate equity deal in the past 12 months because we have not seen adequate value or risk-adjusted returns for our investors. That does not mean we are sitting idle.” Pak continues, “…we utilise in-house skills to assess each real estate debt opportunity through the lens of an equity investment, allowing full understanding of the risks associated to g