Real Estate – Page 109
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Opportunity knocks
Please give an explanation of the firm. Where is the focus of your investment and why? What is the particular investment strategy of the house? JER Partners (JER) is a private equity firm focusing exclusively on real estate investments. JER has been active in Europe since 1994 and runs ...
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AP1 issues clarification about hedge fund plans
SWEDEN – AP1 says recent press statements about it moving into hedge funds are “misleading” and that it will not start reviewing hedge funds until 2005 for possible investment.
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UK unions call for voting transparency
UK – The umbrella body for unions in the UK, the Trades Union Congress, has called for greater voting transparency.
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Lancashire awards custody amid wider revamp
UK - The 2.4 billion-pound (3.56 billion-euro) Lancashire County Council Pension Fund says it will appoint ABN Amro Mellon as its custodian.
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ABP plans to allocate 20% to alternatives
NETHERLANDS – Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP says its new strategic asset allocation targets an allocation of 20% to alternative investments such as hedge funds and private equity, adding that avoiding short-term risk is “not on option”.
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CalPERS says it beats benchmark by over 2%
US – CalPERS has said it returned 29.6% in the one-year period to the end of March, taking its assets to 165.8 billion dollars and beating its benchmark by more than two percent.
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Swiss voters reject pension benefit cut plan
SWITZERLAND - Parliament-backed plans to cut benefits to the first-pillar pension provisions have been halted after 67.9% of voters rejected proposals cuts to pensions and the raising of women’s pension age.
