Real Estate – Page 68
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LPFA scouts global property manager
UK - The £3.6bn (€5.3bn) London Pensions Fund Authority (LPFA) is looking for an external investment manager to expand its £150m real estate portfolio outside the UK.
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CSAM UK property team defects to Aberdeen (updated)
UK – Glenn Newson, former head of UK property at Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM), has defected to Aberdeen Property Investors. He has taken his six-person team with him. (updates with comments from Credit Suisse)
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CalPERS narrows search for CalWest buyers
REAL ESTATE – The $230bn (€175bn) California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) has narrowed the list of candidates to buy the CalWest industrial portfolio.
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Norwegian fund seeks real estate tax advice
NORWAY – The Norwegian finance ministry has issued a tender for a company to draft a report on tax issues relating to investments in real estate and infrastructure in 32 markets outside Norway.
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IPE-QUEST: Dutch fund seeks property manager
NETHERLANDS – An industrywide Dutch pension fund is looking for a manager for a €75m active pan-Europe core real estate portfolio using IPE-QUEST (QN727).
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ABP, Keva in property private equity move
REAL ESTATE – Finnish local government pension fund Keva and ABP, Europe’s largest pension fund, were among eight initial investors in a pan-European real estate private equity fund launched last week by Spanish property group Neinver.
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Standard Life poaches Aareal man
EUROPE – Aareal Asset Management’s director of institutional business in the Netherlands, Harry Humble, has left the firm to join Standard Life Investments just three months after Aareal was acquired by Schroders.
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ATP in search for chief risk officer
DENMARK – The country’s largest pension scheme, the €49.8bn ATP, is still looking for a chief risk officer following Henrik Olejasz Larsen’s move to Sampension.
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A practitioner-led approach
AREF’s new Code of Practice is not just a new set of guidelines; it has a user-friendly format to assist effective implementation, as AREF chief executive Rachel McIsaac explains
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Baggy and loose at the seams
The dress sense of Germany’s real estate industry is not doing it any favours, argues Peter Linneman
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Betting on the rider not the horse
In some of the newer niche sectors the acumen of the private equity investor counts far more than the property itself, Paul Richards argues
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Reversing the blame culture
To turn the built environment green the property industry needs to learn how to work together, Liz Peace argues
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Building a green consensus
CalPERS pushed it with the weight of cash; regulators in the US and EU are now backing green building. But will nation states – and developers – go for it? Shayla Walmsley investigates
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Finding the right pitch
The value of the EU REIT is clear, but is the project achievable? It is, but progress at a national level is essential, Per-Åke Eriksson argues
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Getting into position
Flexibility is a key benefit of real estate securities and alpha is available, but beware the alternative market, Simon Martin reports
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Highway to heaven?
Motorway service stations offer a secure income stream but are at present being met with no more than cautious interest from investors. Lynn Strongin Dodds finds out why
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Keeping up the pace
Founded in 1979, the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) has over 1,800 members, representing over 470 member firms across the US, Canada, Europe and Asia. Members include pension funds, property and investment managers and REITs. Its stated mission is to “serve and educate” its members and to act as a “steward for the industry”. PREA’s CEO, Gail Haynes, explains her view of the institutional market to Martin Hurst
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The perfect match?
In today’s high pressured world LDI is seen by many pension funds as a cure for the ills of declining and unpredictable returns. But can the LDI formula work with real estate? Julia Felce and Neil Turner investigate
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Progress or straitjacket?
In creating new definitions for an increasingly sophisticated property market, are we creating a rod for our own backs? David Skinner investigates
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Conservationists in court battle with PGGM
NETHERLANDS – Nature activists have taken PGGM, the €81bn Dutch pension fund for the health and social work sector, to court over its plans to double the size of its offices.
