Brookfield Perspectives

Recent climate negotiations have centered on mobilizing finance, both public and private, to invest in the transition in emerging markets. New funds dedicated to emerging markets, using catalytic capital at their core, are helping to shift more private sector investment to these critical and underserved regions.

In this episode, hear from the COP 28 Director-General, HE Ambassador Majid Al-Suwaidi, about the imperative for climate action in emerging markets and how the launch of the ALTÉRRA climate fund intends to accelerate investment. He is joined by Brookfield Chair and Head of Transition Investing, Mark Carney, and Brookfield Senior Advisor, Gayle Miller, for an in-depth discussion about the increasingly critical role for catalytic capital. Please read this disclaimer (https://www.brookfield.com/podcast-disclaimer) before listening.

Listen to an audio version of Brookfield Corporation’s Second Quarter 2024 Letter to Shareholders to learn about the firm’s progress across its Alternative Asset Management, Wealth Solutions, and operating businesses. Please read this disclaimer (https://www.brookfield.com/podcast-disclaimer) before listening.

This year in Paris, over 14,000 athletes from more than 200 countries will compete in 878 Olympic and Paralympic medal events — from beach volleyball under the Eiffel Tower to the Marathon starting at Hotel de Ville. Preparation starts years in advance and requires solid, well-functioning infrastructure and multi-layered coordination across industries and technologies. From telecom and data infrastructure to power generation and transportation, Brookfield’s Becky Lumlock, Gabriele Montesi, and Vincent Kerboull break down how the Brookfield ecosystem is helping to bring 2024’s Paris Games to life.

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Listen to an audio version of Brookfield Corporation’s First Quarter 2024 Letter to Shareholders to learn about the firm’s progress across its Alternative Asset Management, Wealth Solutions, and operating businesses. Please read this disclaimer (https://www.brookfield.com/podcast-disclaimer) before listening.

Digitalization is touching all sectors of the economy, including industries that are highly physical, like construction and real estate. In this episode, we’ll hear from Sabrina Kanner, Executive Vice President of Development, Design & Construction for Development at Brookfield Properties, and Ian Siegel, a Client Partner at Willow, a company that provides digital twin technology to Fortune 500 companies and other owners of real estate, including Brookfield. They unpack a new technology that’s expanding across the real estate landscape called a “digital twin.” It integrates data sources across equipment and systems and displays that data in a true spatial context, providing a path to lowering costs, saving energy, and offering differentiated experiences to tenants.

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Evolving consumer behavior and increasing digitalization is fueling investment in mature technologies with infrastructure-like characteristics. Optimizing operations within companies is accelerating the effects felt by the broader industry and consumers alike. In this episode, Doug Bayerd, Managing Partner for Brookfield’s Private Equity Business and Head of Technology Investment, and Jingwen Liu, Senior Vice President of Business Operations at Brookfield, unpack what’s driving the digital investment renaissance. 

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Goods can move by truck, train, ship, or plane, but how does money travel from point A to point B? Anuj Ranjan, Chief Executive Officer of Brookfield’s Private Equity business, and Sir Ron Kalifa, Vice Chair and Head of Financial Infrastructure Investment at Brookfield, unpack the topic of financial infrastructure, how it differs from traditional infrastructure, and how global mega-trends such as digitalization and deglobalization are driving a transformation of the global financial system. Nowhere is this more visible than in the global payments market, which must build at rapid scale to keep pace with enterprise and consumer demand.

Data is the fastest-growing commodity in the world, and it's showing no signs of slowing down. We’re in the midst of an exponential surge in enterprise data storage and processing requirements, widespread adoption of the latest 5G technology and new use cases like generative AI. To set the scene for our four-episode arc on digitalization, we hear from Udhay Mathialagan, Managing Director and CEO of Brookfield’s Global Data Center Group, and Olivier Micheli, CEO of Data4, a European operator and investor in the data center market. They break out the big picture, trends and opportunities around the storage, transport and processing of data.

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Deglobalization, the need for affordable housing, and post-COVID "new normal" trends in how we live, work, and play are shaping today's real estate business. In this episode, Brookfield veterans Brian Kingston, the Chief Executive Officer of Brookfield's Real Estate business, and Lowell Baron, President and Chief Investment Officer of Brookfield’s Real Estate Group, help unpack the lay of the land on the real estate industry, what’s driving growth, and what the future of the business looks like.

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Brookfield's ecosystem expanded significantly this year with the growth of our insurance solutions business. With increased demand for retirement services, particularly in the U.S., Sachin Shah, a 20+ year veteran at Brookfield and Chief Executive Officer of Brookfield's Insurance Solutions Group; Jon Bayer, a managing partner in the same department; and Michael McRaith, Vice Chair of Brookfield Reinsurance and a former Director of the Illinois Department of Insurance helped to unpack the state of the insurance industry, how the insurance landscape is changing, and where private capital fits in to this rapidly evolving industry.

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