Christopher Walker

London

Contributor at IPE Real Estate Magazine

Writer at Freelance

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Articles

What Germany’s €500bn plan could mean for infrastructure investors

1 month ago | realassets.ipe.com | Christopher Walker

Late last week, Friedrich Merz, soon to become Germany’s next Chancellor, confirmed the market’s best hopes with a €500bn fund to invest in defence and infrastructure. The balanced budgets associated with Germany since the completion of the country’s reunification are being jettisoned in a bold move designed to revitalise the nation’s infrastructure, bolster defence capabilities and stimulate economic growth. Infrastructure investors universally welcome the programme.
Asset managers test AI’s power in the investment process

1 month ago | ipe.com | Christopher March |Christopher Walker

IPE Membership IPE has created a suite of products and services for Europe’s institutional investment and pensions community.
DeepSeek, what’s the outlook for data centres?

2 months ago | realassets.ipe.com | Christopher March |Christopher Walker

IPE Real Assets Membership IPE Real Assets has created a suite of products and services for Europe’s institutional real estate investment community.
Louis-Simon Ferland: Sticking with sheds

2 months ago | realassets.ipe.com | Christopher March |Christopher Walker

IPE Real Assets Membership IPE Real Assets has created a suite of products and services for Europe’s institutional real estate investment community.
What does the ageing of 80m baby boomers mean for real assets in the US?

2 months ago | realassets.ipe.com | Christopher March |Christopher Walker

IPE Real Assets Membership IPE Real Assets has created a suite of products and services for Europe’s institutional real estate investment community.
Unigestion joins forces with Kepler Cheuvreux to launch new asset manager

2 months ago | ipe.com | Christopher Walker

Kepler Cheuvreux and Unigestion have announced a strategic partnership to establish a joint asset management company specialising in quantitative strategies for public equities. The collaboration aims to manage over €3bn in assets, marking a significant step for both groups in their ambition to become leaders in the liquid asset management market. Artificial intelligence (AI) is central to the new alliance.
10 years of ELTIFs: can they offer pension funds illiquid assets at the right price?

2 months ago | ipe.com | Christopher Walker

European long-term investment funds (ELTIFs) may not be new, but they are in vogue. Two were launched just last week – one by Candriam and Kartesia; the other by JP Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM). Analysis by the Paris-based consultancy Indefi shows that the number of funds has quadrupled in the last two years, with 41 in operation at the end of 2024 (see figure).
Does DeepSeek upend digital and energy infrastructure strategies?

Jan 28, 2025 | realassets.ipe.com | Christopher Walker

Real assets investors have been navigating an increasingly fast-changing and uncertain world. But in the past couple of years they have at least been able to lean on the conviction that the revolution in artificial intelligence (AI) could only further turbocharge the need for hyperscale data centres and energy-transition infrastructure.
IPE Real Assets | Natural Capital

Jan 24, 2025 | realassets.ipe.com | Jon Peterson |Florence Chong |Richard Lowe |Christopher Walker

As fires spread across the Los Angeles metropolitan area in California in early January, scientists confirmed that 2024 had been the hottest year on record
Energy transition: the state of play as Trump seeks to withdraw from Paris accord

Jan 21, 2025 | realassets.ipe.com | Christopher Walker

Hours after being inaugurated as US President for the second time, Donald Trump has signed an executive order to withdraw from the Paris climate accord. The move has massive implications for global efforts to reach net zero – efforts in which institutional investors have been playing a growing role. But what is the state of play of the global energy transition at the start of 2025? First the good news: it has been accelerating at an unprecedented pace.