Super’s biggest problem likely lies within funds themselves, with many using legacy operational infrastructure ill-suited to the needs of the major financial organisations they’ve become.
The race to the bottom on low cost, benchmark aware solutions for a post-YFYS world has pretty much been run. But while the perception of value currently sits on price, that might not be where it ends up, according to Fidelity’s Simon Glazier.
2022 Global Real Estate Outlook
Late-Cycle Investing Philosophy Comes Early
2021 marked the most rapid economic recovery witnessed in the U.S. over the past four decades. As a result, inflation has reached its highest point since the 1970s and markets are polarized between the need to raise rates to curb price growth versus continuing to stimulate the economy to achieve and sustain full employment.
In the meantime, real estate fundamentals have accelerated beyond expectation, with 20% rent growth common in may ways U.S. apartment and industrial markets and cap rates at record low levels. Consequently, returns in 2021 are likely to be at the highest point since 2010. While Europe’s recovery has lagged and Asia’s has been more stop-start, real estate fundamentals have exhibited strength, and the weight of capital looking for durable income has kept yields low.
