BPY - How To Profit From Brookfield Property Partners' 'Complexity Risk'

This article was coproduced with Investing With Confidence.

Brookfield Property (BPYU) (BPY) is a financially complex, many-tentacled enterprise, with several investment classes. Nominally based in Bermuda, it’s a puppet whose strings are pulled by its parent company, Brookfield Asset Management (BAM).

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The sprawling Brookfield Property real estate empire has its gross assets (mostly) equally distributed between its three operating sectors:

• Core office
• Core retail
• A wide array of limited partnerships (LPS).

Source: Brookfield Property annual report.

The 136 upscale properties in its core office portfolio