Join ESR, Blackstone and More in Mingtiandi’s Asia Logistics Forum Next Week

Mingtiandi’s Asia Logistics Forum returns for a fourth year next week as we explore investment trends and opportunities in the region’s largest warehouse markets through live conversations with top executives on our MTD TV video platform.

The four-part programme, which is sponsored by Yardi, starts off on Tuesday next week with a panel discussion on the market for logistics in Greater China, before returning on Thursday for a look at the Japan market. Please follow the link below to register for the programme.

Coming up later in our agenda will be a panel on logistics investment in South Korea on 23 May, before we wrap up the forum on 25 May with a discussion of warehouse investment and development in emerging Asian markets, including Vietnam, India and more.

With a ULI survey ranking logistics as the most favoured asset class in Asia Pacific, Mingtiandi’s 2022 logistics forum has been viewed more than 7,000 times since it first debuted, with representatives of some of the region’s largest real estate investment firms tuning in for the programme.

To make it easier for Mingtiandi’s China audience to view the programme, we will be simultaneously hosting the show from within mainland China with details to be provided to registrants via email.

China in the Lead

The forum’s first session next week will be at 10:00 AM Hong Kong time on Tuesday, 16 May and will examine changes in the Greater China market after more than three years of surging investment.

Leading our exploration of China opportunities will be Zhou Bo, chief operating officer of ESR China; Peter Hwang, chief executive of Blackstone’s DragonCor platform, Hubert Chak, executive director and chief executive of Hong Kong-listed SF REIT and Jeremy Ong, a partner at Baker McKenzie with decades of experience in China’s real estate market.

Our Japan session will be at 10:00 AM Hong Kong time on Thursday, 18 May and will examine opportunities in one of the few major markets globally which offer low interest rates and a strong economy.

Joining us for that panel discussion will be Pierre-Alexandre Humblot, managing director and head of private capital with ESR; Kwang Joon Kim, executive director for Japan Investments with Phoenix Property Investors; Laurent Fischler, head of investments for Asia Pacific at Ivanhoé Cambridge and Joseph Chan, managing director and principal for investments at Gaw Capital Partners.

Korea and Beyond

Mingtiandi’s Asia Logistics Forum will return on Tuesday 23 May for our Korea panel, which will feature speakers from ESR-Kendall Square REIT, JLL, LaSalle Investment Management and Hines.

In our final session on 25 May, we will hear from Vietnam’s BW Industrial, as well as from Ho Chi Minh City-based Frasers Property Vietnam. Also joining us again from India will be Hari Krishna, V from CPP Investments and an additional speaker to be named in the days to come.