My
research
projects
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✽ DeFI and crypto REITs
How would on-chain Real World Assets (RWAs) operate in Australia?
What public policy upgrades are required?
What does the take-off ramp look like: smart contracts-digital ledgers-tokenisation-trading platforms-crypto RWA investment products….maybe?
How should we design the next generation of trust infrastructure?
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✽ REITs 4.0
Mapping the fhe future of global REITs and real asset securitisation.
Includes the creation of www.reitplanet.com and helping establish the Global REIT Alliance.
This project also explores REITs in a crypto world and is crafting a ‘state-of-the-art’ REIT policy design template.
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✽ Modelling the optimal asset with AI
Is it possible to model the ideal building, precinct or city?
What about other real assets like ships or satellites?
What about investment portfolios filled with these assets?
This project is developing novel AI-driven tools to unlock the answers.
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✽ Turbocharging planning approvals
What if planning approvals took minutes, not months (or years…)?
This project explores the public policy frameworks that enable AI to slash supply bottlenecks, boost urban quality and affordability by streamlining approval processes.
How? By clarifying planning rules and using AI to assess project proposals with speed and precision.
The final call stays with skilled professionals, but AI equips them with the tools to make better decisions faster and smarter.
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✽ AI industry mind reader
AI can help us read the mind of an industry.
This project analyses regular reports by CEOs on the performance of public equity REITs, mining them for new perspectives on market trends and dynamics in the real asset universe.
Taking the USA as a test case, we build a scenario engine powered by the thousands of earnings season reports delivered in the 100+ quarters since the year 2000.
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✽ Benchmarking complexity and performance
Do more complex securitised markets deliver better risk-adjusted returns and greater market velocity?
Stage one of the project is developing a new metric to explain the depth and diversity of global REIT markets.
Stage two will explore the relationship between complexity and performance.