Insight

Getting REAL

18 July 2022
Invesco
Invesco Global Real Estate

Investing is all about possibilities. Identifying the opportunities that can help investors, advisers and their clients build and protect wealth among these possibilities is the purpose of the Invesco Inclusive podcast. 

In ‘Getting REAL’, the latest podcast series for Invesco Inclusive, Investment Strategist Amanda Clegg interviews two veterans of global direct real estate, Simon Redman and Max Swango, to explore the opportunities in this asset class.       

Episode 1

REALLY Diversifying in Real Estate
 

In this episode Amanda Clegg talks to Simon Redman about the diversification benefits of direct real estate in an investor's portfolio, the correlation of direct real estate with traditional assets, and the importance of diversification across regions and real estate sectors.

Episode 2

The GREITs rollercoaster
 

Amanda Clegg talks to Simon Redman on the “GREITs roller-coaster”, the equity-market like volatility in the listed market, and discuss how Global Direct Real Estate can offer a more stable journey..

Episode 3

Real Estate's an investment in inflation, the only thing going up

 

What better guest to speak to than Max Swango, a 30+ year veteran of global direct real estate, who has seen direct real estate navigate inflationary and rising rate periods before. 

Episode 4

Future Real Estate; tomorrow's economy needs a home


In this episode Amanda invites Max to survey the landscape of secular, demographic and technological trends he’s seeing in global direct real estate, and where investors will want to be to benefit from the economy of the future. 

Episode 5

It's not easy being green (but it's worth it)


In this final episode, Amanda explores with Simon the question of what makes a building ‘green’, and the environmental solutions and technology which are attracting prime tenants at the moment.