Japan is reigniting its innovation engine. Once a powerhouse in global research and development, Japan saw its share of global innovation slip following the 1990s. Today, the government is making a renewed effort to revitalise its R&D landscape.

Net-zero pledges are now a fixture in global real estate. ESG metrics dominate annual reports, and sustainability-linked assets appear in almost every investment strategy. Yet behind these commitments, progress remains slow, particularly in North America and Asia Pacific, where the gap between ambition and delivery is becoming more difficult to ignore.

The Federal Reserve’s long-standing inflation target — currently set at 2.0 percent annually — is often framed as a pillar of economic stability and prudence. But beneath this seemingly benign figure lies a deliberate and systematic policy that slowly erodes the value of the world’s reserve currency: the US dollar.

Recovering consumer spending is expected to support economic momentum for the industrial and logistics sector in the next 12 to 18 months across major Asia Pacific markets, with Singapore and India leading regional growth as supply and rental dynamics diverge across Asia Pacific, according to Colliers’ Asia Pacific Industrial & Logistics Market Insights September 2025 report.

The landscape of institutional real estate investing is evolving. Recent revisions by the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) have expanded sector and subtype classifications, reflecting the growing significance of nontraditional property types such as data centres, self-storage, manufactured housing, life sciences and single-family rentals.

Barings has acquired two prime Australian industrial warehouse assets across 28,508 square metres of net lettable area in Berrinba and Archerfield, as part of Brighter Super’s Queensland Investment Strategy.

The value of all global real estate (residential and commercial real estate, and agricultural land) was US$393.3 trillion as of the start of 2025, according to Savills, maintaining the asset’s position as the world’s most significant store of wealth.