Perspectives

The PA Real Estate team provides a thoughtful discussion on the growing advantages of the secondaries market. Despite the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, the benefits of secondary investing in private markets, including real estate, have remained. Indeed, similar to many other areas of the economy, the pandemic has accelerated several positive trends already in […]

A Timely Discussion with PA’s Ken Wisdom and Jason Landon As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to severely disrupt economic activity in the United States and multiple industries struggle to adapt to new ways of doing business, asset price volatility in both public and private markets has substantially increased. Although the full arc of this crisis […] The post December 2020 – The Impact of COVID-19 on Real Estate appeared first on Portfolio Advisors.

Although the strategic implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for private markets are still coming into focus, examination of prior event-driven crises suggests the subsequent special situation opportunity set is likely to be material. The COVID-19 pandemic has created a degree of economic turbulence and levels of unemployment not seen in generations. The public health crisis […] The post September 2020 – Special Situations appeared first on Portfolio Advisors.

Secular changes in the investment landscape and a global focus on risk-adjusted returns have highlighted private credit as an all-weather solution within the private markets universe. More than ten years after the global financial crisis, private credit has become cemented among investors worldwide as a core alternative debt strategy. A decade of consistent, but subtrend, […] The post August 2019 – Private Credit: An All-Weather Opportunity appeared first on Portfolio Advisors.

Opportunities for prudent, selective investing in European commercial real estate markets will likely continue through the coming year – and beyond. Around the globe, commercial real estate has continued to attract investor interest over the past year. This reflects positive trends in the job markets, low interest rates with low inflation, healthy regional dynamics, and […] The post April 2019 – The Case for the Industrial Sector in Europe appeared first on Portfolio Advisors.

As the current real estate cycle ages, opportunities to generate attractive total returns from income and appreciation, in tandem with strong defensive characteristics, have increasingly brought our focus to affordable workforce housing. The U.S. real estate markets remain in good health as we pass the tenth anniversary of the global financial crisis. Traditional late-cycle economic […] The post April 2019 – The Case for Multifamily/Workforce Housing appeared first on Portfolio Advisors.

Last year’s global equity market uncertainty, higher interest rates, escalating trade tensions and geopolitical crosscurrents largely masked what may be a particularly attractive time to consider private market investments in Asia. Volatility among Asian equity markets increased dramatically in 2018, national market indexes dropped steeply and the Chinese economy has been impacted by a trade […] The post March 2019 – The Asian Opportunity appeared first on Portfolio Advisors.

Last year’s global equity market uncertainty, higher interest rates, escalating trade tensions and geopolitical crosscurrents largely masked what may be a particularly attractive time to consider private market investments in Asia. Volatility among Asian equity markets increased dramatically in 2018, national market indexes dropped steeply and the Chinese economy has been impacted by a trade […] The post October 2018 – Private Market Secondaries appeared first on Portfolio Advisors.

Real estate has evolved into a global asset class that can be tailored to meet specific goals and objectives. Investing in private real estate was introduced to institutional portfolios in the 1970s to provide diversification and generate attractive long-term current income returns, with low correlations to other asset classes. Initially, investors had limited investment and […] The post October 2018 – The Advantages of Real Estate Private Equity appeared first on Portfolio Advisors.