2025 Best Ideas
PGIM’s Best Ideas highlight a host of areas where we believe investors will find promising opportunities.
Access extensive insights from our teams of global strategists, portfolio managers, researchers and more. Discover how the macroeconomic environment is impacting private alternative investments around the world.
Speaking of Alternatives is an original podcast from PGIM, providing a global perspective on the rich and diverse landscape of alternative investments. Each month, leaders cut through the complexities and get to the heart of alternative investing. They look beyond the headlines and scrutinize the latest trends and strategies driving this important asset class.
…Let’s Talk Investing in Infrastructure
Bill Pappas is the Managing Director and Head of Core Infrastructure and Structured Credit at PGIM Private Capital. He is a veteran of structured credit and finance within the infrastructure industry.
Keshav and Bill explore the nuanced infrastructure investment landscape through the lens of private capital and alternative investment. Their discussion covers the political and regulatory landscape, the impact of technology on energy infrastructure, and how structured solutions can enhance portfolio diversification within this complex asset class.
… Let’s Talk 2024 Alts Report
Keshav Rajagopalan speaks with Matt Harvey, Head of Direct Lending at PGIM Private Capital, Sebastiano Ferrante, Head of Europe at PGIM Real Estate, and Stephan Wessel, Managing Partner at Montana Capital Partners. Together they explore allocations and tensions in a risk-on environment, challenges in fundraising and valuations and expected institutional investment headwinds and tailwinds of 2025.
… Let's Talk Emerging Market Debt
Keshav Rajagopalan speaks with Mariusz Banasiak, Managing Director and Head of Local Currency Rates and FX at PGIM Fixed Income. Together they explore the opportunities and challenges of emerging market debt, positive structural trends in emerging markets and managing risks in geopolitics and the consequences of the 2024 presidential election.
… Let’s Talk Global Data Center Investments with Jim Footh
Data centers are one of the fastest-growing areas within real estate investing, driven by the increasing digitization of our lives and the evolution of AI. In this episode, Jim and our new host Keshav Rajagopalan explore the headwinds and tailwinds in the data center landscape, and where opportunity can be uncovered.
… Let’s Talk Affordable Housing with Soultana Reigle
Soultana Reigle, Head of U.S. Equity and Senior Portfolio Manager for U.S. Value-Add Strategies at PGIM Real Estate, traverses one of the great societal challenges in the U.S. and globally, the affordable housing market and its complex economic challenges.
… Let’s Talk Agriculture with Jamie Shen
Jamie Shen, Managing Director and Head of Agriculture at PGIM Real Estate, explores the transforming landscape of agricultural debt and equity, examine the mitigation of climate risk for investors and explore the balance of labor and mechanization in agriculture.
… Let’s Talk Direct Lending with Matthew Harvey
Matthew Harvey, Head of the Direct Lending business for PGIM Private Capital, highlights the importance of experienced asset managers in navigating the direct lending landscape and sheds light on the steady increase of capital flowing into this evolving credit market.
… Let’s Talk Private Equity Secondaries with Dr. Marco Wulff
Dr. Marco Wulff, CEO, Managing Partner, and co-founder of Montana Capital Partners AG, discusses the advantages and challenges of the private equity secondary market, global prospects, and the recent explosive growth of this private investment strategy.
… Let’s Talk Value-Add Equity Real Estate Investing with Sebastiano Ferrante
Sebastiano Ferrante, Head of Europe at PGIM Real Estate, discusses Europe’s alternative investment landscape, prevailing market dynamics currently influencing institutional investing, and the risk-reward trade-off in value-add equity real estate investing.
PGIM’s Best Ideas highlight a host of areas where we believe investors will find promising opportunities.
We asked 250 investment decision makers at institutions in EMEA managing approximately $10 trillion in AUM how they plan to allocate to private alternatives.
Economies in Asia-Pacific are emerging as beneficiaries from a global realignment in supply chains.
In this podcast, Cathy Marcus, co-CIO and global COO, discuss the evolution of cities, the challenges they must overcome and investment opportunities.
The growth in border industrial demand is occurring alongside heightened uncertainty about U.S. trade policy that is unlikely to fade soon.
European real estate offers value-add opportunities as markets rebound. Supply shortages, ESG needs, and low liquidity create opportunities for gains.
Geopolitical uncertainty and deglobalisation is prompting a reconfiguration of global supply chains – with implications for logistics real estate.
AI-driven demand and limited data center supply forecast 10-15% annual returns in Europe with emerging markets prioritizing low power costs and renewables.
We articulate our market outlook and investment themes for the United States, Mexico, Europe and Asia Pacific via 4 annotated regional chart packs.
The private credit market is growing to $3T, with real offering resilient strategies like core commercial mortgages to mitigate risks and volatility.
Direct lending and mezzanine present a strong investment case across economic cycles, and more opportunities will arise as M&A activity thaws.
A middle-market energy fund management business sponsored by PGIM Private Capital.
The era of private equity flourishing under low interest rates, followed by a blend of optimism after the COVID-19 pandemic, has shifted.
The report captures the views of institutional investors in private equity and provides insights into their investment strategy.
The quest for liquidity has reignited interest in the LP segment of the secondaries market.
The private credit market is growing to $3T, with real offering resilient strategies like core commercial mortgages to mitigate risks and volatility.
In December 2023, Pricoa Private Capital established a three-year, $200 million shelf facility and purchased €30 million of senior unsecured notes.
Direct lending and mezzanine present a strong investment case across economic cycles, and more opportunities will arise as M&A activity thaws.
A middle-market energy fund management business sponsored by PGIM Private Capital.