EVORA Insights Roundtable in Milan

Our first Roundtable in Italy was an epic – over three hours of discussion in between eating five delicious courses on a warm October evening. Together with our co-host Savills IM, our team hosted guests representing the best of Milan’s real estate investment community. “How much does it cost? Our guests were a mixture of…

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EVORA Insights New York Roundtable

In September, together with Tishman Speyer, we co-hosted a Roundtable lunch and discussion at the Rainbow Room in the Rockefeller Center. The food and the view were fantastic! It was an invite-only affair for eight real estate investors and investment managers. The topic of conversation was climate risk and how it can effectively be integrated…

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EVORA Insights Roundtable Summary

Can private credit/debt have an ESG impact? On the 17th June, on a hot day in London, we were joined by eight clients for a roundtable lunch including some of the largest private real estate debt funds. We were there to discuss how private credit/debt can effectively progress ESG objectives when these products do not…

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Roundtable: the “gap” between real asset valuations and investment value

In March, EVORA Insights’ fourth roundtable focused on integrating climate risk into real estate asset valuation and assessing investment value. The discussion was more diverse than just technical adjustments to acquisition models and IC memos. Our clients’ focus on achieving actual net mitigation and adaptation, rather than simply de-risking an investment or portfolio, was striking.…

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Infrastructure investors are leading other real assets

In October, EVORA Global and GLIO hosted a lunch with a select and insightful group of investment managers who are leading on the integration of ESG. In a number of ways, these leaders were ahead of other real assets, particularly real estate. There are obvious differences between direct investment in infrastructure and equity investment in…

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What did we learn from our first EVORA Insight’s lunch on the topic of how ESG is being integrated into investment decision-making?

The gap in expectations between the leaders and the majority of investment managers is huge. Even the leaders don’t think they are doing anywhere near enough. To be honest, it’s a little disheartening. Organisational change and capacity building is being hampered by structural changes, which cannot be solved by each firm on their own. For…

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