Real Estate – Page 65
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ABP to sell office fund KFN
[17:00 CEST 29-08] NETHERLANDS - The €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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LPFA moves property from UTs to mandate
[16:30 CEST 23-07] UK - The London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA) has appointed ING Real Estate to manage a £150m (223m) global property mandate.
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West Midlands awards ING £560m property mandate
UK - The £7.8bn (€11.6bn) West Midlands Metropolitan Pension Fund has awarded ING Real Estate a £560m advisory mandate to manage its UK direct property portfolio.
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IPE Quest: Swiss fund seeks real estate FoF
[16:45 CEST 19-07] SWITZERLAND – A Swiss corporate pension fund is looking a manager to handle a $10m (€7.2m) pan-European real estate fund of funds mandate, using IPE Quest.
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PAIFS to match REITs tax status
[16:00 CEST 19-07] UK – Pension funds and charities will no longer face a tax penalty if they invest in UK property authorised investment funds (PAIFs) from next year as government reforms will give the investments tax status equal to real estate investment trusts (REITs).
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Newham to build returns in infrastructure
UK – The London Borough of Newham Pension Fund is making its first foray into infrastructure with the award of a £30m mandate.
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Wiltshire appoints three managers
[17:00 CEST 13-07] UK – The £1.1bn (€1.7bn) Wiltshire County Council Pension Fund has awarded three mandates for unconstrained equity, long-short equity and active currency.
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Glasgow fund monitors underperforming managers
UK - The £9.73bn (€14.4bn) Strathclyde Pension Fund has put Edinburgh-based Baillie Gifford and Isle of Man’s Capital International under watch due to underperformance.
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Powys drops overseas bonds
[16:19 CEST 05-07] UK - Western Asset Management and Barclays Global Investors (BGI) have lost out in a major reshuffle at the £295m (€436m) Powys County Council Pension Fund that has seen overseas bonds culled from the portfolio.
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IPE-QUEST: $100m REIT mandate
NETHERLANDS – A Dutch institutional investor is looking for a real estate manager via IPE-Quest.
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London & Capital doubles assets
GLOBAL – London & Capital reported a rise in assets under management to over $3bn (€2.23bn) from $1.6bn in 2005.
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Schroders named as Shetland manager
[12:57 CEST 14-06] UK – The Shetland Islands Council has named Schroders as the manager awarded a £20m (€29.6m) UK property mandate.
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Dutch schemes consider rejuvenating industrial estates
[16:54 CEST 12-06] NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension funds are showing an interest in investing in the rejuvenation of run-down industrial estates in the Netherlands.
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Mercer calls for earlier selection input
[16:57 CEST 08/06] EUROPE - Pension funds seeking real estate fund managers need to get involved in selection process discussions at an earlier stage because the bespoke nature of mandates is becoming more complicated, according to consultants Mercer.
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Blue Sky hires successor to Satumalaij
[16:53 CEST 07/06] NETHERLANDS – Blue Sky Group, the manager of Dutch airline KLM’s pension fund assets, has appointed Hidde Frequin as its new real estate fund manager.
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E.on crowned top European real estate pension investor
[11:00 CEST 01/06] EUROPE - E.on’s GPS service was the runaway winner of the evening at this year’s IPE Real Estate Awards as it picked up no less than five real estate investment awards and was named the Best European Pension Fund 2007.
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Encouraging best practice
Property and alternatives managers are also taking action in the area of ESG, writes Lynn Strongin Dodds
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Population decline could hit office space demand
[13:15 CEST 31/05] EUROPE – Pension fund investors will need to be more selective about the property investments they make in the future as a decreasing European labour market is likely to slow the growth of demand for office space, according to the University of Maastricht.
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United Norwest seeks multi-asset returns via Barings
[12:56 CEST 23/05] UK- The United Norwest Co-operatives Employees’ Pension Fund has handed Baring Asset Management a mandate to manage £23m through its Extended Risk Fund.
