PHILADELPHIA, PA—Asia presents better risk-adjusted returns than the US right now, and asset-price deflation is likely in the US, a partner with Apollo Global Management told members of the NAI Global network gathered in Philadelphia earlier this month for the firm's annual leadership summit and a global look at the economic factors driving the market around the world.
“In all candor, we see more opportunity in Asia for risk-adjusted returns than we do here,” says keynote speaker Philip Mintz, partner and CIO with Apollo Global Management's US and Asia real estate equity business, based in New York. “I just see a correction coming with asset-price deflation as part of that trend in the US.”
Mintz compared the outlook for the US economy with Japan's, during that country's dive into deflation in the 1990s. Mintz, an Asia investment expert, lived in Japan while working for Asia Pacific Land as the chief investment officer and earlier as a partner with Warburg Pincus focused on Asian real estate investing, and before that as the chief executive officer of General Electric Real Estate Asia.
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