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At Sousou Partners, we believe in having a point of view. For over twenty years, it is what our clients have come to expect and to value. Having a point of view about their talent needs, compensation structures, and recruitment processes – but also the type of businesses they are seeking to build and the cultures they are nurturing.
Our annual compensation review has become the centerpiece of our insight work. Each year we benchmark compensation trends across a number of job roles, geographies, and sectors and make this work – suitably anonymized and confidential – available to clients and the media. We also look beyond the immediate world of recruitment. We regularly scan the operating landscape to identify emerging topics and trends that have the potential to affect our clients or the overall real asset sector. And then we research, reflect and review to bring a deeper understanding to our work.
Sometimes we simply write about what has moved us and what we believe is important.
The Round-Up, March 2023
The recent anniversaries of the first Covid lockdowns in Europe and the war in Ukraine are sobering reminders of the challenges we have all faced over the last few years. Many of us in the real estate industry have experienced the first major downturn of our careers, with instability in capital markets causing new deals to grind to a halt ...
Interview with Eric Adler
Eric Adler is the president and chief executive officer of PGIM Real Estate. PGIM Real Estate is one of the largest real estate investment managers in the world, offering a broad range of real estate equity and debt solutions across the risk-return spectrum.
The Round-Up, December 2022
Today, we find the world still facing significant headwinds with CRE pricing reset 25% to 30%, sluggish GDP, increasing interest rates and lacklustre employment. Some pundits are beginning to utter the ‘s-word’, stagflation. As defined, it seems clear that most major economies are in or are headed towards stagflation ...
Interview with Ward Fitzgerald
Ward Fitzgerald is the Chief Executive Officer and Senior Managing Principal of EQT Exeter, an international real estate equity fund investment group and real estate development and operating company with offices in 40 locations in the US, Europe, Asia, Brazil, and Mexico.
Global Real Assets Survey 2022
Thank you to everyone who responded to the Sousou Partners survey – Real Assets Round Up. We are delighted to share with you the results which offer a global outlook reflecting on 2022 and looking ahead to 2023.
What is Fueling the Surging M&A Sector?
Ghada Sousou recently sat down with Hunt Scanlon Media to discuss the surging M&A market and what to expect looking forward.
The Round-Up, October 2022
Whilst Europe was on holiday this summer, you could be forgiven for thinking the world was falling apart. The macro picture went from bad to catastrophic as spiraling inflation (the worst in Europe for decades) and in turn, the “cost of living” became a nightmare across the continent and indeed globally.
Arron Taggart Interview
Arron Taggart is currently Head of UK Origination at Cheyne Capital in London. Arron has over 20 years’ experience in real estate markets. He joined Cheyne in August 2012 to originate real estate loans in the UK and Northern Europe.
John Barakat Interview
John Barakat has spent 35 years in the real estate industry in the US and Europe. After 17 years in real estate at Goldman Sachs, John founded the Real Estate Debt business at M&G Investments and ...
The Round-Up, July 2022
The hospitality sector is a passion for many people, and it offers the opportunity to develop new skills, build relationships and provide rewarding employment. Hospitality plays an important role in promoting economic development and prosperity in communities all over the world and the focus on eco-tourism drives a complex balance between ensuring long-term sustainability and maximising economic returns.
Interview with Carlos Hernandez
Carlos Hernandez is a seasoned Chief Executive Officer and international real estate professional, and the creator of some of the most unique and awarded concepts in luxury hotels, golf courses, resorts, and master-planned communities in Latin America ...
Global Hospitality Survey 2022
We are delighted to share with you the results including a snapshot of the answers from the respondents which offer a global outlook representing different platform types and size of company. Despite the challenges ahead, 46% feel optimistic about the remainder of 2022, highlighted through a continued performance improvement by entering new markets and developing fresh concepts in addition to the drive for innovation triggered by Covid.