Team Debates

Since restrictions have been eased and our team is back at the office, we are eager to resume with our staff training program. Starting off with a new chapter of our in-office program, we are aiming to strengthen the communicative skills of every one of our staff, through team debates. This sees Partners debating with senior and junior colleagues alike. 

Engaging in debates has been proven to be extremely beneficial for the development of numerous skills. The power of deploying rational arguments and compelling evidence in a debate enables our staff to enhance their skills of researching, organizing, and expressing their ideas eloquently while presenting information in a compelling fashion. 

Our training activities also encourage teamwork and help us to continue building and strengthening our infamous company culture. This is crucial to Berkeley Assets in order to ensure that processes run seamlessly across all our global offices while maintaining a content and loyal team representing the brand ethos with passion and delivering the results expected by our stakeholders.

UK FCA Advisory Business

At Berkeley Assets, we pride ourselves on conservative tangible asset-backed businesses in order to generate sustainable yields for our clients and shield their capital from volatility. However, through our extensive institutional network, we often are presented with clients that are searching for more risk-on approaches.

To support these institutional clients and further foster our relationships we are launching a UK FCA regulated placement advisory business. This business will be anchored by our existing institutional relationships to advise institutions where their capital would best be placed if they are seeking alternative asset exposure.

This advisory unit will form a separate business line to supplement our global expansion.

Global Markets: An overview

Due to the nature of such an unprecedented healthcare crisis, it is still uncertain how much damage COVID-19 will have on the global economy. Unknown timelines raised worries of unpredictable effects on consumer behaviour and business activities. 

The global economy has taken a huge hit from the pandemic being one of the largest declines in global GDP of the last century. Other large declines were caused by WW1, WW2 and the Great Depression of the 1930’s. The current recession triggered by the coronavirus outbreak is expected to be deeper than the one that followed the global financial crisis in 2008. 

Despite recent positive market activity, and in some cases new market highs, we should not be fooled. Record levels of fiscal stimuli to support the global economy are likely to be short-term phenomena with questionable long-term effects. Thus, the full real fallout is still very unclear and a warning sign for anyone feeling too bullish on the markets.

Latest Projects: Post-COVID Investment Strategy

During the current and short-term future market situation, we have a clear focus on identifying opportunities from market dislocations. We plan to deploy capital into new projects over the next 6-12 months. Favourable credit positions with equity conversions are expected as distressed vendors are in need of liquidity as natural consequence of the current market situation. 

However, stern due diligence and more drastic downside cases will have to be modelled to provide ultimate comfort, while maintaining our ethical approach to asset selection. As we expect asset devaluations to continue for no longer than the next 12-18 months, we will maximise the opportunities in the given market situation at the right time and act when opportunities present themselves.