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US pension funds buy opportunity
UNITED STATES - Pension funds in the United States are investing more capital into commingled funds with opportunistic investment strategies.
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Pension funds fuel urban investment trend
UNITED STATES - Pension funds in the United States are putting more capital into an urban investment strategy on the back of young professionals鈥� demand.
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Land investment is the new real estate
UNITED STATES - Real estate managers are investing in land as a new specialist investment strategy.
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CalSTRS extends senior housing exposure
UNITED STATES - California State Teachers Retirement System has expanded an existing joint venture with California-based Vintage Senior Advisors and invested more money in its senior housing venture.
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Irish pension fund sells retail stores
IRELAND 鈥� The Irish Property Unit Trust is selling some of its retail investments in Cork and Limerick, as well as an office block in Dublin, to finance its stake in a new Cork retail property project.
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Pension funds give euro focus to Goodman
EUROPE 鈥� Asset management firm Goodman Property Investors has picked up a series of new European real estate mandates from pension funds in recent months, the latest of which is from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
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Finland remains 'Nordic property capital'
FINLAND - Finnish real estate still offers pension funds credible property investment opportunities despite the small size of the market, according to Aberdeen fund manager Pertti Verhanen.
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Lothian pension tenders its real estate
UK 鈥� Lothian pension fund is reviewing its real estate investment manager and searching for a firm to handle the fund鈥檚 asset allocation.
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US pensions follow Mexican residential trail
UNITED STATES - More pension fund capital is being ploughed into the Mexican real estate market and heading for retail and 鈥榮ingle family home鈥� developments, according to property investment firm ING Clarion.
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ECP to extend retail centres
EUROPE - The 鈧�2.2bn investor EuroCommercial Properties is increasingly focusing on extending its existing centres to improve its competitive position in a pressured property markets.
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North Dakota State shifts core capital to value-added
UNITED STATES - North Dakota State Investment Board has decided to move a portion of its capital originally invested in core real estate and move it into the value-added real estate bucket.
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CalPERS and MacFarlane bet big on the capitol
UNITED STATES - California Public Employees Retirement System and MacFarlane Partners have formed a venture which could build a real estate portfolio worth $10bn (鈧�7.3bn) in the greater Washington DC region.
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Closed-end real estate feels UK pricing pressure
UK 鈥� Investment trust managers predict UK investors will increasingly turn to overseas real estate to seek diversification in a weakening domestic market.
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EU institutions drive Brussels boost
BELGIUM - Brussels is the new Berlin, International Real Estate (IRE) indicated when it announced a sharper focus on value-added opportunities in Brussels real estate.
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Carrefour to spin off property
FRANCE - French retailer Carrefour is to offer 20% of its 鈧�24bn property portfolio to 鈥渟trategic institutional real estate partners鈥� and other investors, including pension funds.
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Corio to divest office and industrial portfolios
EUROPE - The 鈧�6bn property investment company Corio has decided to explore the divestment of a major part of its offices and industrial portfolios, and to further focus on its retail activities.
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UK schemes wake up to residential
UK - UK pension funds need to catch up with their continental counterparts and ditch outmoded perceptions of domestic residential, according to Quinton Hill-Lines, managing director of fund management at Grainger.
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ABP to sell office fund KFN
NETHERLANDS - The 鈧�211bn civil service scheme ABP is considering selling at least part of its offices investment fund KFN, in order to further diversify its overall portfolio.
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Unibail-Rodamco prepares post-merger management
NETHERLANDS - Unibail-Rodamco is almost ready to announce its top 50 management structure as its integration efforts are now on track, the 鈧�23.9bn property investor has said.
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Milan buys flags future for Euro-office
ITALY - Segro, the serviced office firm, has acquired a Milan business park for 鈧�84.5m from fund manager Europa Capital Partners 鈥� a beachhead in a market segment known for the difficulty of cross-border investment.
