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EY to cut 3,000 jobs in US to eliminate ‘overcapacity’Move by ‘Big Four’ accounting firm comes just days after collapse of plan to split group upStephen Foley in New York | April 17, 2023EY last week called off a plan to separate its consulting business into a new company © Reuters EY has told staff it will cut 3,000 jobs in the US to eliminate “overcapacity”, with the axe falling mainly on the consulting side of the firm.The redundancies account for about 5 per cent of EY’s US workforce, although the percentage reductions will be higher in the affected businesses.The cuts were announced less than a week after the collapse of a plan to spin off EY’s global consulting business into a new company, codenamed Project Everest.“After assessing the impact of current economic conditions, strong employee retention rates and overcapacity in parts of our firm, we have made the difficult business decision to separate approximately 3,000 US employees,” an EY spokesman said.“These actions are part of the ongoing management of our business and not a result of the recently concluded strategic review, known as Project Everest,” he added.Consulting businesses have slowed sharply over the past year after a period of outsized growth when clients were racing to upgrade their IT during the pandemic. A mergers and acquisitions boom that boosted consultants’ deal advisory work has also petered out as interest rates have risen.EY’s cuts are deeper than those announced by other consulting groups in recent months. KPMG laid off close to 2 per cent of its US staff in February and Accenture has said it would cut 2.6 per cent of its global workforce over the next 18 months. McKinsey is restructuring its back office in a way that will reduce about 3 per cent of its workforce.EY’s global leadership pitched Project Everest as a way to turbocharge growth by freeing both sides of the firm from conflict-of-interest rules that prevent consultants from selling many services to the audit clients. However, leaders of the US business blocked the deal amid doubts that the audit-focused side of the business would be strong enough on its own.The plan had consumed more than a year of work and cost EY more than $600mn, executives told staff last week.The US executive team warned last week that it was planning a “simplification” of the firm to save up to $500mn of annual costs. Executives in the UK have sent similar signals that cost cuts will be necessary.The Big Four accounting and consulting firms all went on a hiring spree during the recovery from the pandemic, struggling to keep up with the heavy volume of work and a greater than usual number of staff leaving.However, they have scaled back recruitment dramatically. The latest monthly survey by William Blair last week found that job postings by the Big Four were 62 per cent lower than a year ago.
Pension fund Calstrs braces for writedowns in $50bn property portfolioWarning from $306bn fund is latest sign that higher interest rates have upended US commercial real estate marketOne of the biggest public pension plans in the US is preparing to write down the value of its $52bn real estate portfolio in the latest sign that higher interest rates and the recent turmoil in the banking sector are causing pain in the property sector.The $306bn California State Teachers’ Retirement System (Calstrs) has ploughed an increasing share of its assets into real estate in recent years in a bid to diversify away from stocks and bonds, and benefit from the superior returns on offer to buyers of private assets.But the fund’s chief investment officer told the Financial Times that he was now bracing for writedowns in the value of assets in its property portfolio amid growing evidence that the Federal Reserve’s rapid monetary tightening over the past 12 months has knocked valuations in the sector.“Office real estate is probably down about 20 per cent in value, just based on the rise of interest rates,” Christopher Ailman said. “Our real estate consultants spoke to the board last month and said that they felt that real estate was going to have a negative year or two.”Calstrs is not alone in its worries. State Street chief executive Ron O’Hanley told the Financial Times on Monday that the US custody bank’s biggest concern was “what happens with commercial real estate, particularly offices”.He predicted that commercial real estate woes would contribute to a “gentle slowdown” in the US economy.For Calstrs, the concerns about property mark a departure for one of the fund’s best-performing asset classes. Real estate had provided double-digit returns over a 10-year period for the 1mn-member plan, according to an update in March. It reported an overall 6.7 per cent loss across its entire portfolio in 2022, in a year that saw both bond and stock markets suffering heavy losses.Real estate makes up 17 per cent of Calstrs’s overall assets. Its holdings include a $240mn investment in 300 West Sixth, a 23-storey office building in Austin, Texas, and a $1bn holding in a Blackstone European property fund.Offices have emerged as a key worry for the global real estate market as the combined impact of rising rates, the shift to hybrid working and pressure to upgrade buildings’ energy efficiency hits landlords.US office values could see peak-to-trough falls of around 30 per cent, according to a forecast by consultancy Capital Economics, while prices in the worst-hit cities like San Francisco could halve.Real estate is generally slower to reprice than other assets because it is relatively illiquid. The lack of deals in recent months has given valuers less evidence for the true price of buildings.The industry has also benefited from the broader resilience of private asset markets while publicly-traded equities and bonds tumbled last year. That has sparked criticism of the private equity industry for not accurately valuing its holdings, and predictions of heavy declines as prices catch up with reality.Ailman said parts of the commercial property market could seize up while prices adjust. “The buyers don’t want to step in until it comes down. So it’s an illiquid market and it’s going to be locked for a while.”Worries around the sector have intensified in the wake of the crisis at Silicon Valley Bank.Although the amount of lending against properties is broadly lower than before the 2009 financial crisis, smaller US banks have particularly high exposure. “There are still reasons why real estate could be a concern, notably through regional bank exposures,” said Kiran Raichura, deputy chief property economist at Capital Economics in a note.Ailman said he was “cautious” on the outlook for property, in part because of the risk of a sharp downturn for the US economy. While a recent decline in inflation had bolstered his confidence that the Fed could pull off a “soft landing” — where it manages to tame inflation without inducing an economic slump — there was “an equal chance that we’re still headed to a severe recession”, he said.Ailman said the fund was a long-term investor and would avoid selling property assets into a falling market.“If you have long-term leases, and solid debt financing you’ll just hold,” he said. “Your office portfolio has fluctuated in value before. You’ll continue to get income.”
Una de las dificultades que puede encontrar esta iniciativa del Gobierno para mejorar el acceso de la población a la vivienda en alquiler es que la mayor parte de los inmuebles de la Sareb no se encuentran en las zonas donde la demanda es más alta y por lo tanto los precios son más elevados. En total, apenas 7.000 están situadas en las capitales de provincia, lo que representa el 15% de las viviendas en manos del banco malo.
Y de la Sareb y su anuncio de ofrecer vivienda, una no-sorpresa:https://www.niusdiario.es/economia/vivienda/20230418/donde-estan-50000-viviendas-sareb-gobierno-movilizara-alquiler-social-asequible_18_09280275.htmlCitarUna de las dificultades que puede encontrar esta iniciativa del Gobierno para mejorar el acceso de la población a la vivienda en alquiler es que la mayor parte de los inmuebles de la Sareb no se encuentran en las zonas donde la demanda es más alta y por lo tanto los precios son más elevados. En total, apenas 7.000 están situadas en las capitales de provincia, lo que representa el 15% de las viviendas en manos del banco malo. La mayor parte de lo que tiene la Sareb es la roña que nadie quiere. Como decía CHOSEN ayer, y como hace tiempo que en el foro tenemos claro, se trataba de traspasar el pufo de la banca y las manos privadas al público. Si por el camino se podía congelar el precio y recuperar algo de dinero (a costa igualmente del contribuyente), mejor que mejor.Y vista la furiosa reacción contra el teletrabajo, la única medida factible a corto plazo que podía ayudar a redistribuir algo la población, está claro que no interesa pinchar la burbuja en las grandes ciudades y la costa. Que la Máquina de Movimiento Perpetuo continúe... hasta que no pueda más.
Todos sabemos que lo que tiene la SAREB son mayoritariamente inmuebles que carecen de los más mínimos estándares de calidad. Por lo tanto, no debería afectar al actual tensionamiento de precios que saque al mercado la SAREB todos esos inmuebles a precios asequibles para los trabajadores españoles.El anuncio de Pedro Sánchez no solo es propagandístico. Va mucho más allá. Está poniendo en el punto de mira a los usureros.
Cita de: Urederra en Abril 18, 2023, 12:41:13 pmTodos sabemos que lo que tiene la SAREB son mayoritariamente inmuebles que carecen de los más mínimos estándares de calidad. Por lo tanto, no debería afectar al actual tensionamiento de precios que saque al mercado la SAREB todos esos inmuebles a precios asequibles para los trabajadores españoles.El anuncio de Pedro Sánchez no solo es propagandístico. Va mucho más allá. Está poniendo en el punto de mira a los usureros.No sólo carecen de esos estándares de calidad, sino que muchos de ellos están en zonas con poca o ninguna demanda.