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Nils Kok

What Obama, the Real Estate Sector, and 130 Investors Have in Common
By Nils Kok on 07 Sep 2016 • openbook 7 minute read
While a typical summer is characterized by a lack of real news, leading the press to cover anything that’s even remotely newsworthy—or not – (we have a word for it in Dutch, “cucumber time”), the past two months have yielded enough stories to keep the average …
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Nils Kok

ESG, Real Estate and the Six Stages of Grief
By Nils Kok on 04 Mar 2016 • openbook 9 minute read
Last week I spent a couple of days in sunny Vermont with our great IT partner Greenriver, together with the GRESB Data Analytics team—they’ve been working hard on building out the GRESB Portal for the 2016 data collection on real estate, debt and infrastructure. One …
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Dan Winters

GRESB Investor Track at Greenbuild 2015
By Dan Winters on 20 Oct 2015 • openbook 2 minute read
Monumental Green is a most appropriate theme for Greenbuild 2015. While the Washington DC setting conjures up touring historic monuments in and around the National Mall, the inaugural GRESB Investor Track at Greenbuild makes this a truly monumental year for many in the …
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Garrett Weiner

Sustainability Reporting and Leadership in Asia
By Garrett Weiner on 15 Oct 2015 • openbook 4 minute read
Sustainability reporting and leadership has evolved over the past 20 years to become focal points for the business community and larger society as we face a dawn of complex, interconnected challenges, and disclosure and efficiency requirements across different countries …
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Nils Kok

Real Estate 2.0: Tesla-style Buildings, used “Uber-style”
By Nils Kok on 02 Sep 2015 • openbook 8 minute read
While the financial industry is still reeling from and reflecting on last week’s stock market gyrations, wondering whether China’s growth will (finally) go below 7%, and whether the Fed will be deterred from (finally) raising interest rates from their current rock-b …
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Dan Winters

REITs With Strong ESG Metrics Demonstrate Financial Outperformance
By Dan Winters on 22 Jun 2015 • openbook 3 minute read
On Friday June 19, NASDAQ, the world's second largest electronic stock exchange hosted an audience hungry for the best.  I'm not talking about Fogo de Chao's ringing of the closing bell after their successful IPO rose nearly 30% in today's market debut - this group …
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Ruben Langbroek

Trends in Responsible Investing: Show Me the Money
By Ruben Langbroek on 28 May 2015 • openbook 5 minute read
Recently, I spoke at the ARES Seminar on Sustainability in Real Estate in Tokyo about trends in Responsible Investing, and why green is the color of money. Without a doubt this is a hot topic, as Responsible Investing is getting more and more attention, while an increas …
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