Real Estate – Page 77
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Clayton joins Pension Real Estate Association
REAL ESTATE – The Pension Real Estate Association has named James Clayton as its new Director of Research as of today (September 1).
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Italians AIM for successful float
Pirelli & C. Real Estate’s SpA’s Spazio Industriale Investments I BV is to list on London’s Alternative Investment Market in a move aimed solely at institutional investors. “The Italian industrial real estate market is currently the second-largest in Europe in terms of physical space, second only to Germany,” Spazio says. ...
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Best small European investor - Corem
As a relatively small entity, French pension fund Corem has nevertheless managed to replace its original narrow portfolio of residential properties with a highly diversified spread of commercial real estate. Furthermore, it has done so by investing alongside other institutions in a number of custom-made financial vehicles which have given ...
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Best French fund - Corem
Corem’s award as the best French pension fund is a tribute to its success in transforming a narrow assortment of residential properties into a highly diversified portfolio. This award is sponsored by Schroder Property Investment Management. In early 2003, as part of a shake-up of a previous scheme, Corem was ...
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Market knowledge breeds success
Henderson Global Investors’ success in being voted the Best Real Estate Investment Manager, sponsored by Propex, can be attributed to a wealth of experience and resources, culminating in performances that have been second to none.Crucially, its results over the past two years have met the expectations of investors. For the ...
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S&P casts doubt over rule changes
Proposed changes to the rules governing Belgian SICAFIs - a local version of REITs - will increase risk and damage corporate ratings, according to Standard & Poor’s. “Loosening restrictions on gearing will increase financial risk,” said Andreas Kindahl, a credit analyst with S&P. The new rules would increase the maximum ...
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Insight floats real estate under Ross Goobey
REAL ESTATE - Insight Investment plans to raise £100m (€148m) in new capital when it floats its real estate fund management business, Invista, on the junior AIM market this month.
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ABP affiliate buys San Francisco office block
REAL ESTATE – A real estate firm co-owned by Dutch pension fund ABP and State Street has bought an office block in San Francisco.
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LA Fire & Police to invest in pooled real estate
REAL ESTATE – The $13.6bn Los Angeles Fire & Police Pension System has approved an investment in a commingled fund and signed off on some emerging manager guidelines.
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Dutch institutional real estate reaches €29bn
NETHERLANDS – Dutch institutions’ investment in the real estate sector have surged to €29bn, according to De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB).
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Nottinghamshire scheme makes real estate buy
UK – The £1.6bn (€2.6bn) Nottinghamshire County Council Pension Fund has bought an office building in the southern English town of Sutton for £13.33m.
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BOE scheme takes 6.7% of Henderson property fund
REAL ESTATE - The Bank of England’s pension fund has acquired almost 6.7% of Henderson Global Property Investors, the fund manager.
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ABP’s Puay Ju joins Aberdeen for Asian real estate
EUROPE – Kang Puay Ju, senior portfolio manager at Dutch pension fund ABP, will join Aberdeen Asset Management’s real estate arm’s new Asian property fund, the asset manager announced today.
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CalPERS names bond, real estate managers
US – California’s $205bn (€160bn) public pension giant CalPERS has named 16 managers for international fixed income, real estate equities and US global equities.
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CBRE nabs €1.4bn Electricity Supply property brief
REAL ESTATE – The Electricity Supply Pension Scheme has named CBRE Investors to replace F&C Asset Management as manager of its £985 (€1.4bn) core UK property portfolio.
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UK coal scheme role for British Steel’s Debney
UK – LaSalle Investment Management has hired Richard Debney as European director and fund manager for the British Coal Schemes Pension Plan.
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ING’s assets under management drop €8.9bn
GLOBAL – ING lost a total €8.9bn of assets under management in the second quarter – “shaved” by market declines and currency movements.
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Ex-Mn Services’ Dijkhuis sets up own firm
NETHERLANDS - Jan-Willem Dijkhuis, former director of Dutch real estate investments at asset management firm Mn Services, has set up his own consultancy firm for the financial and real estate sector.
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ESPS terminates €1.48bn F&C real estate brief
UK – The €27bn Electricity Supply Pension Scheme has terminated its £1bn (€1.48bn) real estate mandate with F&C, the asset manager says.
