All Real Assets articles in June 2006 (Online)
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Deka sells three properties for β¬690m
REAL ESTATE β DekaBank, a major German provider of open-ended property funds, has sold three commercial properties from its core German fund for β¬690m as part of an ongoing restructuring of the fund. DekaBank began the restructuring of...
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NY Teachers in β¬77m Texas retail venture
REAL ESTATE - The New York State Teachers Retirement System has put together a $100m (β¬77.2m) joint venture with Inland Real Estate Corp. to invest in retail properties in Texas. The fund was the driving force behind the venture as it had a ...
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AMF Pension still on real estate buy-side
REAL ESTATE - Swedish pensions manager AMF has sold its Stockholm Wenner-Gren complex to property company Fabege for β¬68m β but says it remains on the βbuy sideβ in the sector. Mats Hederos, head of real estate at the Swed...
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Wisconsin to invest in non-core assets
REAL ESTATE - The $70.4bn (β¬54.4bn) Wisconsin State Investment Board is to look at placing some capital into the marketplace this year with a non-core investment strategy. These will be done in a mixture of strategies on both the commingle...
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ΒιΆΉΣ³» Real Estate Awards: the winners
REAL ESTATE - Pension fundsβ adoption of new models for new markets paid off at the ΒιΆΉΣ³» Real Estate Awards last night as investors collected prizes for geographical diversification and the move into indirect investment. The awards, announce...
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Dutch rail fund questions real estate boom
NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension funds will ditch bricks for funds, according to Peter van Gool, deputy director of real estate at Dutch pension fund SPF Beheer. Describing recent market performance as βunsustainableβ, he told the ΒιΆΉΣ³» Real ...
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ΒιΆΉΣ³» Real Estate Conference Report
REAL ESTATE - The second annual ΒιΆΉΣ³» Real Estate Conference β held alongside the magazineβs inaugural Awards Gala β drew a heavyweight collection of pension fund investors and consultants to the Amsterdam Hilton last week. Confer...
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Pirelli Real Estateβs Spazio to list in London
REAL ESTATE β Pirelli & C. Real Estate SpAβs Spazio Industriale Investments I BV is to list on Londonβs Alternative Investment Market in a listing aimed solely at institutional investors. βThe Italian industrial real es...
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Amonis cuts real estate for hedge funds
REAL ESTATE - The β¬1bn Amonis pension scheme for dentists, doctors and pharmacists has reduced its exposure real estate β and equities - and ploughed roughly β¬34.2m into a fund of hedge funds portfolio managed by Key Asset Managemen...
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Henderson appoints Austrian real estate chief
REAL ESTATE - Henderson Global Investors has appointed Richard Weberberger to head its Austrian real estate team. Weberberger joins from Multi-ImmoEast Asset Management, where, as managing director, he launched an institutional Central and Eastern...
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Henderson in US deal with pension fund
REAL ESTATE - A US pension fund is to acquire $100m of retail real estate in the Midwest and Western US through a layered procurement deal with Henderson Global Investors. Under the Chicago-based firmβs Manager of Partners account agreement...
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Real estate helps drive Storkβs returns
NETHERLANDS - With returns of 29.1% real estate provided a key driver to the returns of 14.7% of Pension Fund Stork, it said in its annual report. Equity returned 29.3% while fixed income yielded 9%. The returns on complementary investments were 1...
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New editor named at ΒιΆΉΣ³» Real Estate
GLOBAL β Martin Hurst, features writer at ΒιΆΉΣ³» Magazine, is to take over as editor at sister publication ΒιΆΉΣ³» Real Estate. Hurst has been with ΒιΆΉΣ³» since 2004 and last year won the Best Fund Management Trade Journalist award at State Street Glo...
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Ex-CalPERSβ McCook joins new firm
REAL ESTATE - Mike McCook, the former senior investment officer for real estate at the California Public Employees Retirement System, has found new employment. He is now co-owner of a company in San Francisco called Kenwood Investments. The other ...
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Tyneside pension fund tenders valuation
REAL ESTATE β The Tyne & Wear pension fund has tendered valuation services for its β¬450m commercial property portfolio. The portfolio, currently managed by Arlington Property Investors, comprises 33 properties located across the U...
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Singapore to invest in student housing
REAL ESTATE - GIC Real Estate, the real estate investment arm of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, has formed a joint venture with Campus Apartments to invest in the student housing industry. There is a total of $333m of equity i...
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ING REIM opens Nordic office
REAL ESTATE - ING Real Estate Investment Management has appointed as Peter Helfrich head of its soon-to-open Swedish office. Helfrich was previously senior asset manager of the ING Dutch Retail Fund. The new office, scheduled to open at the beginnβ¦
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Rubenstein raises β¬378m for new office fund
REAL ESTATE - Rubenstein Partners has attracted a total equity raise of $475 million (β¬378m) for its commingled fund, Rubenstein Properties Fund, L.P. The investors in the fund were a mixture of corporate pension funds, educational endowment...
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Finlandβs Varma offloads β¬74m of retail
REAL ESTATE β Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Co., Finlandβs largest private insurance company, has agreed to sell 116 retail properties to a real estate fund. Sveafastigheter Fund II said it has signed an agreement to acquire the prope...
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Stouthamer boosts European team
REAL ESTATE - Composition Capital β the investment management firm set up by former MN Services real estate chief Erwin Stouthamer last year β is close to hiring an investment manager for its Composition Capital Europe fund. The Dutc...
