Sustainable Investing

From benchmarking to future-proofing: PIMCO on decarbonizing real estate

Efforts to decarbonize real estate assets need to begin with careful benchmarking, says PIMCO Prime Real Estate’s Raphael Mertens.

Manulife: Social inclusion makes economic sense

Sustainable real estate strategies that work with stakeholder communities are well-positioned to mitigate risks and can also create long-term asset value, argue Manulife’s Erin Patterson, Onay Payne and Regan Smith.

Can spreading the data center load help with sustainability?

Rising demand for data centers, driven by artificial intelligence, poses significant sustainability problems. Could expanding into emerging markets help the sector clean up its act?

How do public REITs and private real estate compare against sustainability benchmarks?

Both have made great strides toward sustainability of late. So why is private real estate still packing less of a punch against established benchmarks?

How pooling is opening new avenues for LGPS

The practice enables the UK local government pension schemes to explore new areas of private real estate, such as impact investing.

ACCESS Pool appoints manager for impact real estate mandate

The LGPS collective has tasked Orchard Street with deploying £100m to decarbonize direct UK real estate assets.

Real estate investors have a lot on their minds

PEI’s largest Investor Perspectives study to date reflects the increasingly complex concerns affecting today’s capital allocators.

Treacy to step down as CLI consolidates private funds business

The Singapore-headquartered firm will combine its real estate and alternative assets units into a real assets platform led by the group CEO.

Collaboration drives sustainable change

Leadership does not need to mean having all the answers if it can mean convening the people who do, argues iMasons Climate Accord’s executive director, Miranda Gardiner.

CalSTRS’ carbon tracking highlights decarbonization challenges 

CalSTRS’s emissions tracking highlights the difficulties of decarbonization