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Why specialised real estate is a better investment strategy

by Robbie Lin | Apr 22, 2021 | The Professor, zLead Article, zNewsletter

While institutional investors of the 1990s preferred passive investment vehicles with a diversified portfolio of multiple real estate sectors, recent real estate investment strategies have shifted from diversified REIT portfolios to specialised ones. In particular,...

Porcelain and the making of the modern world

by Stephen Davies | Apr 15, 2021 | The Professor, zOtherDiversions

When Marco Polo returned to Europe from his journey around Asia he brought back many things. One that attracted much attention at the time and went on to have a profound influence on European civilisation was an example of a kind of ceramic completely unknown to...

Singapore REITs – monthly update

by Kenny Loh | Apr 15, 2021 | The Analyst, zLead Article, zOurWriters1

FTSE ST Real Estate Investment Trusts (FTSE ST REIT Index) increased from 826.65 to 859.68 (+3.99%) compared with last month’s update. Currently the Singapore REIT index is still trading with a range between 816 and 874. Yield spread (reference to ten-year...

India’s impending war on crypto

by Peter C. Earle | Apr 8, 2021 | The Professor, zOtherDiversions

A senior official in the Indian government recently revealed to Reuters that the government would soon propose a law banning the trade and possession of cryptocurrencies. India has quickly become a global cryptocurrency hub, with 8 million investors holding an...

Where New Zealand goes, the world goes

by Joakim Book | Mar 31, 2021 | The Analyst, zEditor's pick, zLead Article

An event in 1989 shook the world and radically changed how critical institutions operated. No, I’m not talking about the fall of communism and the following disintegration of the Soviet bloc, but of an obscure change of public policy in a land far, far away. While the...