Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 702
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Levelling the playing field
One of the greatest challenges for real estate investment managers operating internationally is ‘levelling the playing field’. Every market has its own customs and traditions that turn the business of making real estate investments into a complex process. As a result, most skilled international real estate investment managers come equipped ...
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Chancellor stamps on special purpose vehicles
The UK’s chancellor, Gordon Brown dealt out a major blow to the UK property market in his Budget. As a result, this month will be a bumper one for transactions as investors work to conclude deals before the Finance Bill gains Royal Assent (expected to be mid to late July) ...
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Institutional funds make rapid progress
German investment law provides institutional investors, which are legal entities, the opportunity to organise – in a particularly efficient manner in terms of both management and taxation – their real-property investments already existing in Germany or are going to be effected there. This can be carried out through interposing a ...
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Money flows go property way
Institutions are back in the real estate market. Nothing to do with property, everything to do with the current state of equity markets, says Andrew Jackson, investment director of real estate, Standard Life Investments in Edinburgh. Poor equity performance has led to a reappraisal of real estate by UK institutional ...
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New challenges for second pillar in Greece
Policy makers involved within the social security and benefits context in Greece are faced with major new challenges since the beginning of 2002. For a number of years, discussions on the reform of the domestic social protection system was a hot issue on the political agenda, leading to strong reactions ...
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Titan annual changes
Dow Jones Indexes said it made changes to three of its Titans indices, as a result of the regular annual review. Five component stocks are being changed in the Dow Jones Global Titans 50 index – Chevron Texaco, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, PepsiCo, Barclays and AstraZeneca will be added ...
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Challenge for active managers
Enhanced indexing is a quantitatively structured alternative to active management. Unlike indexing that seeks to replicate the returns of a market index, enhanced indexing seeks to exceed index performance, generally within some pre-specified risk parameters. Enhancements are generally achieved in two ways: q by the use of index futures in ...
