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Texas Teachers seeks growth in agriculture
UNITED STATES - Teacher Retirement System has made its first ever investment in agriculture with a $250m (鈧�145.9m) commitment into the AG Real Value Fund, managed by Teay鈥檚 River Investments.
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Arizona Public Safety takes opportunistic strategy in real estate
UNITED STATES - Arizona Public Safety Retirement System intends to make at least two more real estate commitments to commingled funds by investing through a US opportunistic strategy in 2010.
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麻豆映画 Real Estate鈥檚 Top 100 finds Swiss investors favour property
EUROPE 鈥� Four Dutch pension funds are among the top 10 institutional real estate investors but Swiss pension funds tend to have the highest allocation to the sector, according to 麻豆映画 Real Estate鈥檚 inaugural Top 100 institutional real estate investors.
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German pension funds find a way to tap core US real estate
US/GERMANY 鈥� Invesco Real Estate has raised $120m (鈧�87m) from four German institutional investors to invest in core US real estate.
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Asian investors eye real estate fund-of-funds
ASIA-PACIFIC 鈥� Franklin Templeton Real Estate Advisors (FTREA) has identified a new generation of local real estate managers in Asia Pacific, which the fund of funds manager is currently assessing for its second vehicle targeting the region.
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Low carbon property fund to target 'high-quality tenants'
UK 鈥� A new 'low carbon' real estate fund is being planned to refurbish 50 properties in the UK into high specification energy efficient space and offer it to tenants at 鈥榤arket prices鈥�.
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Standard Life snaps up Tesco 'eco' sale-and-leaseback
UK 鈥� Standard Life Investments has acquired a Tesco Extra Supermarket in Shrewsbury for its 拢1.85bn (鈧�2.04bn) Pooled Property Pension Fund.
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Columbus changes pension funds' course for value-added real estate
UK 鈥� Schroders has raised capital from pension funds for a new value-added real estate fund, bucking the trend for core investment strategies that have predominated over the past two years.
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Rebranded DEGI to focus on institutional and Master KAG services
GERMANY 鈥� Aberdeen Immobilien KAG, previously known as DEGI, will in future focus its business on the institutional sector, pan-European funds and on offering fiduciary services, according to Hartmut Leser, country head for Aberdeen in Germany.
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Ohio PERS to invest $1.6bn in real estate
UNITED STATES - Ohio Public Employees Retirement System will allocate $1.6bn (鈧�1.2bn) in real estate this year and will be targeting stable assets as well as motivated sellers in particular.
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CBRE launch breaks into DC pensions
UK 鈥� CB Richard Ellis Investors has launched its first property fund aimed at the defined contribution (DC) pension sector.
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Indiana PERF sees potential in real estate debt
UNITED STATES - Indiana Public Employees鈥� Retirement Fund has approved two investments in real estate debt totalling $230m (鈧�169.9m).
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Aegon AM launches fund targeting smaller properties
UK 鈥� AEGON Asset Management is the latest fund management group to launch a fund targeting smaller real estate assets in the UK, as the market for prime property becomes increasingly competitive.
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Europe's biggest pension fund given top-line real estate guidelines
NORWAY - The Norwegian Ministry of Finance has today revealed the Government Pension Fund-Global fund will in future be invested in real estate as planned, albeit investments will be made over a long period of time, in a bid to reduce risk.
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Responsible investment fund to develop UK care homes
UK 鈥� A new socially-responsible real estate fund backed by local authority pension funds has invested in the UK care home sector.
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Aberdeen claims core European real estate has bottomed
EUROPE 鈥� Aberdeen Property Investors has begun buying real estate again for its core pan-European institutional fund now that it believes many of the continent鈥檚 prime markets have bottomed out.
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Kansas PERS turns attention to core real estate
UNITED STATES - Kansas Public Employees Retirement System has made a $100m (鈧�73.5m) allocation to the LaSalle core commingled US Property Fund.
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RBS foreclosure signals start of uncertainty - Aviva
EUROPE 鈥� Aviva Investors is expecting to see more bank foreclosures following Royal Bank of Scotland鈥檚 (RBS) assumption of a German office portfolio owned by Morgan Stanley, but warned that commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) refinancing will be a greater source of market uncertainty.
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Mn presses funding extension talks for PME and PMT
NETHERLANDS 鈥� Mn Services is in discussions with 25 global real estate fund managers, on behalf of Pensioenfonds Metaal en Techniek (PMT) and Pensioenfonds van de Metalektro (PME), about an extension to fund investment periods.
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DEGI forced to reiterate Global Business stance
GERMANY 鈥� Aberdeen Asset Management Deutschland said it is working hard to ensure the DEGI open-ended Global Business fund for institutional investors can re-open in the future, despite reports suggesting it may need to be liquidated in March.
