Real Estate – Page 69
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Features
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
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Grasp the nettle
INREV sees a boost to the market coming from dynamic corporate governance. Managers must now make a leap of faith. Steve Hays reports
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The future shape of real estate
Frédéric Ducoulombier, associate professor at EDHEC Business School, explains why the Nice based centre is adding real estate to its alternative asset arsenal and outlines the key ongoing themes
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Checking in for better returns
Hotel investments offer reward potential to those who can rise to the challenge of sweating the asset, as Jon Peterson reports
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Riding the crest of a wave
Asian REITs continue to be a positive investment, providing stable returns on the back of the region’s continuing economic growth. Chris Reilly reports
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Degrees of optimism
In spite of the expected exclusion of residential from Germany’s REITs, some still expect issuance close to €100bn, as Jan Wagner found at the G-REIT conference in Frankfurt
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Asian exponentials
The Asian REIT market has grown spectacularly, and demand for the new China REITs looks set to soar. Richard Newell reports
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Ageing brings new opportunity
Europe’s pensions headache of increasing life expectancy presents an unexpected source of return for real estate investors, as Lynn Strongin Dodds finds
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Breathing life into Europe
In the US, senior housing is a large sophisticated sector of the economy with significant potential for real estate investors. But can the model work in Europe? Simon Martin investigates
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The case for acting together
Pension funds have so far been hesitant to join real estate industry organisations en masse. Shayla Walmsley looks at the benefits – and the limitations – of belonging
