An allocation into Asia Pacific allows investors to add value to their global portfolio through intra-regional growth diversification and also benefit from the variances across economies within the region, states Nuveen Real Estate’s Asia Pacific cities in tomorrow’s world report. A top-down macro perspective of real GDP growth since 1990 suggests the enhanced diversification benefit of adding Asia Pacific into a portfolio that includes the United States and Europe is highly pronounced given growth across Asia Pacific historically being driven by the United States and to a lesser extent Europe. The overriding macro dynamics, however, have evolved substantially during the past three decades.

Asia Pacific is now driving and outpacing world growth. The more attractive secular growth prospect f