Real Estate – Page 68
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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.
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ATP recruits real estate specialist
DENMARK – Ville Raitio, head of research at European Association for Investors in Non-listed Real Estate Vehicles (INREV), has been poached by the DKK371.5bn (€49.8bn) Danish labour market pension fund ATP.
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Irish NTMA chooses two for IT
IRELAND – The Irish National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) has chosen two IT providers for administration and accounting for its combined €275m property and private equity portfolio.
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Tesco, M&S appoint property advisers
UK - Retailers Tesco and Marks & Spencer have selected advisers for two sale-and-leaseback deals involving their UK property portfolios.
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Experts urge funds to diversify, not protect portfolios
GLOBAL – Long-term investors such as pension funds should diversify rather than protect portfolios against short-term losses, according to a new study by ABN Amro and the London Business School.
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Star performer under pressure
Germany’s real estate Spezialfonds have enjoyed considerable success, particularly of late, but they are not for everyone, as Jan Wagner finds
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Challenging times
The popularity of real estate continues to grow but access and quality issues in the unlisted sector remain according to INREV’s latest survey. Tim Horsey reports
