The report sought to apply the the press pulse theory of mass extinction events to the real estate investment management industry, looking at the pressure that the industry had been under since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in the Autumn of 2008 and looking at a combination of major changes that were expected to arise at the end of 2012 and start of 2013 that could collectively give rise to the pulse.

The key factors that we identfied in the 2010 report were set out in a diagram which you can fund below: