All News articles – Page 1148
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Maine PERS to ramp up real estate exposure in 2010
UNITED STATES - Maine Public Employees Retirement System is planning to invest between $100m (€76.5m) and $200m in real estate in 2010.
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Pension funds and IVG co-invest in green fund
EUROPE – Four unnamed pension funds – three German, one Austrian – have each invested €33m in a €300m sustainable office fund.
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Half of real estate funds ‘will bleed to death’
GLOBAL - As many as 50% of fund managers will go out of business in an industry shakeout that still has far to go, according to Claude Angéloz of the Swiss-based Partners Group.
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Imperial Tobacco holds on to performance accolade
UK – The Imperial Tobacco pension scheme, winner of the coveted long-term performance award at the IPD/IPF UK Property Investment Awards in London, has highlighted the importance of consistency and adding value to existing assets.
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Munich buy reflects the robustness of residential
GERMANY – An unnamed European institutional investor – understood to be a German pension fund – has acquired a fully rented 274-unit residential block in a Munich suburb for €42.1m.
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AMF faces out-of-town competition
SWEDEN – Swedish pensions provider AMF, one of the biggest owners of Stockholm offices, has been keen to gauge how much competition it will face from foreign investors in its domestic market.
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US housing recovers – but tax regulations deter foreign investors
UNITED STATES – The residential market in the US is recovering, but foreign investors will not be placed to capitalise on opportunities unless government tax restrictions are lifted.
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Investors to take the highroad to Warsaw
POLAND – Polish infrastructure is poised for pension fund investment despite investor concerns over Central and Eastern European (CEE) economies, according to Barings fund manager Matthias Siller.
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Pension funds tap long-term potential of old age
UK – The raising of £80m (€92m) in new equity for a UK social infrastructure fund reflects pension fund appetite for long-term investments linked to inflation, according to Aviva Investors fund manager Neil Gardiner.
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Mass PRIM rebuilds timber portfolio
UNITED STATES - Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board (Mass PRIM) is to invest a further $500m ($376m euros) in US timber after selling a $700m section of its portfolio approximately three years ago.
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San Antonio raises allocation and eyes new funds
UNITED STATES - San Antonio Fire and Police Pension Fund has increased its strategic asset allocation to real estate by four percentage points, giving it $95m (€71.4m) in new spending power.
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European pension funds retrench as Korea looks westward
ASIA-PACIFIC – Local investors will replace US and European pension funds in Asia within 10 years, the Asian Public Real Estate Association (APREA) conference heard last week.
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Henderson re-opens pan-European fund
EUROPE – Henderson Global Investors will this week reopen its €405m institutional pan-European real estate fund of funds after 76% of investors agreed to revoke their redemptions.
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Local authority funds urged to invest in housing
UK – A real estate debt specialist has slated UK local authority pension funds for failing to invest in domestic social housing.
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INREV index posts recovery figures: UK leads
EUROPE – European non-listed funds returned a negative -7.8% in 2009, compared with -19.8% the previous year, according to the INREV Index of 258 funds representing assets worth €132.7bn.
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Nominations for Outstanding Industry Contributions and Best Investment Consultancy
The Âé¶¹Ó³» Real Estate Awards is about finding and rewarding the best in their field. And This is the part of the process where we need your help.
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Germany’s BVK signals fresh interest in Polish real estate
GERMANY – Invesco Real Estate has invested in a logistics development in Poland on behalf of pension fund BVK, and says there is growing interest in the market from other German institutional investors.
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ING REIM steps in to rescue Creed fund
ASIA – ING Real Estate Investment Management has taken over as general partner (GP) at an Asian real estate fund for the second time in 12 months.
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CalPERS takes social action to protect rent rates for lower-income households
UNITED STATES – The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) is seeking to prohibit excessive rent increases and involuntary displacement of low-income households in its US multi-family residential investments.
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Non-listed real estate funds see capital raising fall by 60%
EUROPE – The volume of capital raised through European non-listed real estate funds fell by 60% in 2009, according to the European Association for Investors in Non-listed Real Estate (INREV).


