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Nancy Lashine and John Sweeney, managing partners at capital advisory firm Park Madison Partners, discuss why inflation will be a friend to bricks and mortar, and other reasons for increased institutional allocations next year.

Old-school assumptions about intrinsically valuable real estate will be challenged as technology, especially space tech, evolves, predicts ex-Probitas boss Michael Hoffmann.

Private and listed equity; private and listed debt; green bonds. All investment instruments have a critical role in achieving a positive sustainable impact, says Old Mutual Alternative Investments’ head of ESG, Dean Alborough.

Healthy buildings are now a vital part of investors’ ESG and value-creation strategies, and demand is here to stay, says Joanna Frank, president and chief executive of the Center for Active Design.

Fund managers that rise to the challenge of linking compensation to ESG performance now are likely to reap the rewards in the medium to long term, says Sheffield Haworth’s director, infrastructure, private equity and asset management, Nicholas Sehmer.

Investors believe greater heterogeneity among teams leads to more cognitive diversity, better decisions and superior investment outcomes, says Jennifer Choi, managing director of industry affairs at the Institutional Limited Partners Association.

Energy intensity, capital value and location must all inform the analysis, says Will Robson, MSCI’s global head of real estate solutions research

Brigg Macadam’s emerging market banker Martin Schwarzburg on where private capital can look for investment opportunities and make the biggest impact in the region.

The 2021 GRESB results, released in October, show an asset class stepping up to the plate on sustainability, says its director, real estate, Charles van Thiel.

Billy Grayson, executive vice-president, Centers and Initiatives, at the Urban Land Institute, highlights four steps that every real estate owner can take to half their emissions by 2030 and meet net zero by 2050.