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Asian ambition
A big sell-off of listed property has not dented the confidence of Asia’s real estate market. Richard Newell talked to the major players at the annual Real Estate Investment World Conference in Singapore
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Best small European investor - Corem
As a relatively small entity, French pension fund Corem has nevertheless managed to replace its original narrow portfolio of residential properties with a highly diversified spread of commercial real estate. Furthermore, it has done so by investing alongside other institutions in a number of custom-made financial vehicles which have given ...
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Best French fund - Corem
Corem’s award as the best French pension fund is a tribute to its success in transforming a narrow assortment of residential properties into a highly diversified portfolio. This award is sponsored by Schroder Property Investment Management. In early 2003, as part of a shake-up of a previous scheme, Corem was ...
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S&P casts doubt over rule changes
Proposed changes to the rules governing Belgian SICAFIs - a local version of REITs - will increase risk and damage corporate ratings, according to Standard & Poor’s. “Loosening restrictions on gearing will increase financial risk,” said Andreas Kindahl, a credit analyst with S&P. The new rules would increase the maximum ...
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Italians AIM for successful float
Pirelli & C. Real Estate’s SpA’s Spazio Industriale Investments I BV is to list on London’s Alternative Investment Market in a move aimed solely at institutional investors. “The Italian industrial real estate market is currently the second-largest in Europe in terms of physical space, second only to Germany,” Spazio says. ...
