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Four reasons the shift to hybrid working is set to stay for young professionals

by Amanda Jones | Aug 4, 2022 | The Professor, zEditor's pick, zLead Article

We’re in the middle of a remote working revolution. In the UK, though remote working was slowly growing before the pandemic, in 2020 the number of people working from home doubled. While this rapid rise can be explained by COVID lockdowns, a recent survey my...

Alternative-use property moves into investor spotlight

by Michael Walton | Aug 2, 2022 | Golden Oldie, Residential Investor

Originally published January 2022. It’s time to widen the net. Social changes accelerated by Covid-19 are shaking the property investor community to its core as risks increase from investing in traditional ways. This is important to us all, as a material part of most...

Real estate rhymes

by Simon Wallace | Aug 2, 2022 | The Economist, zOurWriters2

Property and inflation. My friend, colleague and fellow co-head of research, Kevin White, has spent the past few months quoting Mark Twain and telling me that, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes”. The reason for the quote is to reassure that, even in...

A very short history of modern portfolio theory

by Andreas Calianos | Aug 1, 2022 | The Analyst, zOurWriters1

Another instalment in a series of articles detailing how to design a secure, income-producing portfolio. Several years ago, a small experiment led to a terrifying discovery. I was helping a family investment office do some long-range planning and I was not shy about...

Ukraine war: hope for the best, prepare for the worst

by Francesca Batzella | Jul 26, 2022 | The Economist, zLead Article, zNewsletter

Europe sweats over the future of Russia’s gas supply. The invasion of Ukraine on February 24 and the nearly five months of war that have followed have reminded many European countries of the stark reality of their energy dependence on Russia. For ten days, western...