Adrian Chui, CEO of ESR-LOGOS REIT, believes that logistics assets can be a sustainable asset class for investors. kopi-C is a regular column that features C-level executives of leading companies listed on SGX. The series is curated by SGX Research in partnership with Beansprout, and is aimed at helping investors better understand the individuals who run these corporations. In managing real estate, it’s all about the ability to anticipate evolving trends and needs of the tenants in their space requirements in order to reconstruct your properties to remain relevant. When it comes to REITs, there is an additional and increasingly important element to consider – the state of financial or capital markets. From an asset level perspective, having to navigate an intricate ecosystem of stakeholders (tenants, regulators and service providers etc.), anticipating where might be the next emerging need and even identifying “sunset industries”, to taking into considerations the state of the financial markets to weigh...