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On February 14, we celebrated 15 years of partnership with FTSE Russell and Nareit at the London Stock Exchange. When we first launched the Index in 2005 there were 307 companies in the FTSE EPRA Nareit Global Index representing a market cap of EUR 546 billion, which has now grown to 477 constituents globally, representing a total market cap of EUR 1.68 trillion. This clearly demonstrates investors’ appetite for this liquid and diversified asset class.

In the coming month EPRA will launch an education programme in partnership with INSEAD, to help young real estate professionals further enhance their strategic skills applied to the listed real estate sector. In the meantime, we look at the recently published academic research papers, at our members' perception of their Association, and the Solvency II 2020 review.

Earlier this month, EPRA released an important update to the Best Practices Recommendations Guidelines, which introduced the new NAV metrics and reviewed the CAPEX metric. The changes reflect the evolution of our industry and give more granularity to investors.