Energy Oil and gas M&A deals slowing in U.S. The overall appetite for mergers and acquisitions within the oil and gas industry in the…
Real Estate Highwoods Properties to acquire Charlotte office, most expensive buy in state history Highwoods Properties agreed to acquire the 33-story Bank of America Tower in Charlotte for $436…
Other Gen X, Gen Z and millennials not saving enough Three out of five people have less than $100,000 saved for retirement; only 4 percent…
From the Current Issue Digital platforms are opening doors to alternatives by Sheila Hopkins During the past couple of decades, institutional investors have steadily added alternative investments — hedge funds, private equity, commodities, real assets, etc. — to their portfolios in an effort to reduce volatility from public securities, while increasing returns above fixed-income dividend levels. Instead of the traditional 60/40 split often found in private investment portfolios, institutions now typically divide their portfolios into many largely uncorrelated asset classes, with a large percentage targeting alternative investments. Large endowments, such as Yale and Harvard, have more than 50 percent of their allocations in alternative sectors.
From the Current Issue Roundtable: Technology and investing by contributing executives Technology is increasingly on the minds of investors as they do their best to get their arms around rapidly unfolding tech-related issues. Technology is evolving so quickly it is difficult to keep pace, let alone understand its implications for investors, or how to integrate it into critical processes.
Energy Russia’s first seaborne nuclear power plant sets sail across Arctic Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant set sail on Aug. 23 from the Arctic port…
Real Estate Sun Communities acquire $344m manufactured housing portfolio Sun Communities has entered into an agreement to acquire a 31-community manufactured housing portfolio for…
People Conservative billionaire David Koch passes away Conservative billionaire David Koch has passed away. He was 79.
From the Current Issue Rise of the Sunbelt: Outsized commercial real estate investment opportunities can be found in the region by Mike Consol The ongoing and rapid growth in the U.S. Sunbelt has been an extraordinary boon to commercial real estate investors, says a new report from Clarion Partners. The Sunbelt — the region stretching across 18 states in the Southeast and Southwest, including seven of the 10 largest U.S. cities, as well as many midsize metropolitan statistical areas — now holds about 50 percent of the national population, and is expected to rise to about 55 percent by 2030. Over the past decade, the region accounted for 75 percent of total U.S. population growth.
From the Current Issue Hotel projects by the thousands by Andrea Zander The franchise companies leading the U.S. hotel construction pipeline are Marriott International with 1,469 projects (193,458 rooms), up 9 percent by projects and rooms year-over-year, according to Lodging Econometrics (LE), followed by Hilton Worldwide with 1,372 projects (152,853 rooms), a 3 percent increase over 2018, and InterContinental Hotels Group with has 962 projects (97,647 rooms), also up 3 percent by projects and rooms compared with the year past.