Real Estate – Page 67
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PGGM backs giant real estate merger
REAL ESTATE – Dutch healthcare pension fund PGGM has backed a proposed €11bn merger between Dutch real estate fund group Rodamco Europe and French developer Unibail.
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ABP, ATP in €700m German real estate tie
REAL ESTATE – Dutch and Danish pension giants ABP and ATP have teamed up with German real estate firm Patrizia Immobilien to launch a joint venture that will invest up to €700m in German commercial real estate.
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Irish reserve fund’s real estate chief departs
IRELAND – Ian Gleeson, head of property at Ireland’s €18.8bn National Pensions Reserve Fund, is to join Morley Fund Management.
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Managers criticised in German study
GERMANY – Property fund manager Oppenheim Immobilien KAG (OIK), bond specialist Pimco and Axa Investment Managers have elicited the most criticism in a new survey of German institutional investors.
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Blue Sky’s Satumalaij to join Bouwfonds
NETHERLANDS - Blue Sky Group real estate fund manager Raymond Satumalaij is to join fund manager Bouwfonds in May.
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Shetlands appoints equity, property managers
UK - The Shetland Islands local authority has appointed asset manager GMO to manage an £80m (€118m) specialist global equity mandate for its miscellaneous fund.
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Bundestag passes G-REITs bill
REAL ESTATE – Germany’s lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, has approved draft law legalising German real estate investments trusts (G-REITs) retroactively from 1 January.
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Finland central bank issues real estate tender
FINLAND - The €460m pension fund of Finland’s central bank, Suomen Pankki, is seeking an investment manager to handle its €25m indirect real estate portfolio.
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West Midlands seeks direct property manager
UK – The West Midlands pension fund is looking for a manager for its £560m (€824.6m) direct UK property portfolio.
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European property market turnover hits €227bn in 2006
REAL ESTATE - The European commercial real estate market has doubled over the past two years, According to a CB Richard Ellis report just published, turnover increased 46% last year to €227bn, following an increase of 47% the previous year.
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Protection fund appoints five new asset managers
UK – The London-based Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has diversified its portfolio and appointed five new fund managers for its £305m (€446.3m) investment fund, set to grow to £5bn by 2009.
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Moving mountains overnight
With a career spanning more than 23 years in all real estate disciplines ING Real Estate Investment Management CEO David Blight knows as well as anyone the challenges facing institutional investors in real estate today. Speed of reaction is one of them, as he explains to Martin Hurst
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How pure is your real estate?
The real estate market is growing in complexity, but how far do the various options actually reflect the underlying market? Nick Duff investigates
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Swings and roundabouts
Open-ended funds flaunt their liquidity and performance, but how far can they actually deliver both? Michael Clarke investigates
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Stay focused
A US perspective on real estate investing comes from Townsend’s Terry Ahern who argues that the issues of pricing, and the decline in opportunities can be tackled using a few basic principles
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Retail therapy
The UK goes into Europe; other Europeans move to Asia; everyone goes shopping
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Location, location, location
Given widely varying market fundamentals, investors in outperforming US office must choose their city carefully. Stephanie Schwartz-Driver reports
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A close second
Secondary cities such as Munich are mopping up the excess of investor cash as prices rise in mainstream European capitals. However, there is little to bind them together as an asset sub-class, Shayla Walmsley finds
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Confidence and commitment
Information gathering and setting out clear terms and conditions from the beginning will help maintain a successful partnership with a fund manager, Shayla Walmsley reports
