All Features articles – Page 176
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Sticking to one's principles
Peter Damgaard Jensen of PKA in Denmark talks about his mentors in pensions and investments
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Progress or straitjacket?
In creating new definitions for an increasingly sophisticated property market, are we creating a rod for our own backs? David Skinner investigates
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Redefining risk
Curious contracts: Pension fund redesign for the future by Theo P Kocken ISBN 90-72194-78-0 241 pages hardback Available free of charge from www.cardano.com Tutein Nolthenius,’s-Hertogenbosch n December 11, 2006, Theo Kocken of Cardano Risk Management in Rotterdam, The Netherlands defended his PhD thesis ‘Curious Contracts’. His thesis contains a number ...
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Saints or sinners?
Private equity is undoubtedly a high profile asset class right now. But Rachel Fixsen finds that there are varying opinions on its merits for pension funds
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Vying for supremacy
Will offshore jurisdictions such as Guernsey be able to retain their current popularity when pan-European pensions come on stream? Nina Röhrbein investigates
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Star performer under pressure
Germany’s real estate Spezialfonds have enjoyed considerable success, particularly of late, but they are not for everyone, as Jan Wagner finds
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Challenging times
The popularity of real estate continues to grow but access and quality issues in the unlisted sector remain according to INREV’s latest survey. Tim Horsey reports
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The future shape of real estate
Frédéric Ducoulombier, associate professor at EDHEC Business School, explains why the Nice based centre is adding real estate to its alternative asset arsenal and outlines the key ongoing themes
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Checking in for better returns
Hotel investments offer reward potential to those who can rise to the challenge of sweating the asset, as Jon Peterson reports
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Riding the crest of a wave
Asian REITs continue to be a positive investment, providing stable returns on the back of the region’s continuing economic growth. Chris Reilly reports
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Degrees of optimism
In spite of the expected exclusion of residential from Germany’s REITs, some still expect issuance close to €100bn, as Jan Wagner found at the G-REIT conference in Frankfurt
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Asian exponentials
The Asian REIT market has grown spectacularly, and demand for the new China REITs looks set to soar. Richard Newell reports
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Ageing brings new opportunity
Europe’s pensions headache of increasing life expectancy presents an unexpected source of return for real estate investors, as Lynn Strongin Dodds finds
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Breathing life into Europe
In the US, senior housing is a large sophisticated sector of the economy with significant potential for real estate investors. But can the model work in Europe? Simon Martin investigates
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The case for acting together
Pension funds have so far been hesitant to join real estate industry organisations en masse. Shayla Walmsley looks at the benefits – and the limitations – of belonging
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Housing markets: a new paradigm
Cash-settled derivative markets based on home price indices are set to transform real estate markets in the US, Robert Shiller argues
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Room for manoeuvre
The National Pensions Reserve Fund was set up in 2001 with a view to part-financing the cost to the state of social welfare and public service pensions from 2025 onwards. Real estate was introduced in 2004. Ian Gleeson, the fund’s head of property, explains the rationale behind the decision, the ...
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Secondary cities, prime targets
To avoid the fierce competition for US real estate assets, foreign investors are looking outside the main cities. But these new opportunities present new risks, Stephanie Schwartz-Driver reports
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Germany raises its game
Until recently Germany’s real estate industry was lacking adequate representation to drive its interests forward and maximise its potential. In June the ZIA was established to rectify the situation. Chairman Eckart John von Freyend, explains the challenges ahead to Martin Hurst
