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Perspective on tangible assets and long-term investing.

Commentary, research, and education from our investment team. We describe what we observe and how it affects our underwriting, rather than forecasting what markets will do next.

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FeaturedMarket Commentary10 min read

Owning through the cycle: what seventy years of tangible assets has taught us

Markets change their minds frequently; buildings, pipelines, and farmland do not. A look at why we underwrite for conditions rather than forecasts, and how that shapes the assets we are willing to own.

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Market commentary

Perspective on conditions.

Market Commentary6 min read

Reading the cycle without predicting it

Why we plan for a range of conditions rather than forecasting a single path, and what that means for how we size positions.

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Market Commentary7 min read

When yield is compensation and when it is a warning

Higher stated returns usually reflect something. A framework for identifying what is actually being taken on.

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Market Commentary5 min read

Liquidity is a feature, not a free option

The trade-off between the ability to sell quickly and the ability to hold quality assets through pressure.

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Economic updates

The environment we invest in.

Economic Update5 min read

Replacement cost as a margin of safety

How construction economics inform the way we underwrite real assets, and why the cost to rebuild matters.

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Economic Update6 min read

Interest rates and long-lived assets

The relationship between financing conditions and the valuation of assets with multi-decade lives.

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Economic Update8 min read

Inflation linkage: contractual, structural, and imagined

Not all inflation protection is created equal. Distinguishing genuine linkage from the assumed variety.

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Investment education

Fundamentals, explained plainly.

Investment Education8 min read

What "asset-backed" actually secures

A plain-language look at collateral, priority of claim, and where the protection of a security interest ends.

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Investment Education6 min read

How real assets are valued

Income, sales comparison, and cost approaches — what each method assumes and where each can mislead.

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Investment Education7 min read

Reading a capital structure

Who gets paid, in what order, and why the answer changes materially under stress.

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Asset Class Research9 min read

Farmland: soil, water, and the things that do not move

Why water rights and soil quality frequently determine agricultural returns more than commodity prices do.

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Asset Class Research7 min read

The arithmetic of timber

Biological growth compounds regardless of price. What that means for harvest timing and patience.

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Asset Class Research8 min read

Infrastructure and the cost of being essential

Barriers to entry, regulated returns, and the obligations that come with owning systems people depend on.

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