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What’s the point of an office?

by Tim Neathercoat | Dec 16, 2020 | The Analyst

This article was originally published in October 2020. In order to rethink our working spaces effectively, we must consider new priorities. “The office is dead!” some headlines have proclaimed. “What’s the point of an office anyway?” others have asked. Are these bold...

Global asset markets: sink or swim

by Richard Barkham and Wei Luo | Sep 28, 2020 | The Economist

Floating on a sea of money, will asset prices eventually sink – or make landfall on the solid ground of economic recovery? Global equity markets have performed pretty well in the year to date, even as the world’s major economies are only slowly rebooting from...

Hold on until the second half of 2021

by Sabina Reeves | Sep 23, 2020 | The Economist, zLead Article, zNewsletter

Here at CBRE Global Investors we are knee-deep in our semi-annual ‘global house views’ process, where we update all our real assets forecasts, risk-adjusted returns, model portfolios and preferred strategies. In the pre-covid days, the process started with a...

The CDC’s deadly data sins

by Steven Sabol | Sep 11, 2020 | The Analyst

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has long collected and disseminated data on vitality and health. But why is its data dissemination so terminally ill? Covid-19 has drawn the spotlight on to the internal workings and the possibilities of the CDC’s data...