Real Estate – Page 82
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Dutch metals fund PMT in real estate purchase
NETHERLANDS – MN Services has bought 29 apartments in Rotterdam on behalf of its owner, the €20bn metalworkers’ scheme Pensioenfonds Metaal en Techniek.
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NAPF Conference: ESPS’s Barlow on bonds
UK - The idea of pension schemes just getting into bonds and gilts seems "crazy" to Electricity Supply Pension Scheme chief executive Richard Barlow.
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NAPF Conference: Hitchen on flight to bonds
UK - A flight to bonds is short-term thinking, according to Chris Hitchen, chairman of the National Association of Pension Fund's investment council.
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ABP and ATP in UK real estate venture
REAL ESTATE – The Netherlands’ ABP and Denmark’s ATP have signed up for a £500m (€724m) real estate joint venture. (This story previously appeared on www.iperealestate.com)
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Irish construction scheme ups real estate
REAL ESTATE - The Construction Federation Operatives Pension Scheme (CFOPS), the Irish builders’ fund, has boosted its real estate allocation by 2% with a move into indirect investment (This story previously appeared on www.iperealestate.com).
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ABN Amro exits Czech asset management
CZECH REPUBLIC – ABN Amro has sold its Czech asset management outfit to two Prague-based firms for an undisclosed amount.
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Finland’s Keva invests in Hermes European fund
FINLAND – The €17.1bn Finnish Local Government Pensions Institution, Keva, has invested in Hermes’ European Focus Fund.
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UK schemes still eye international equities – MAS
UK – The roughly 55%-45% split between UK and overseas equities in many pension fund investment portfolios could be on the road to complete reversal, according to Mellon Analytical Solutions.
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AXA IM posts 25% rise in AUM
GLOBAL – AXA Investment Managers’ assets under management rose 25% to €432bn in 2005, according to the annual results.
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Institutions ‘should beware commodity indices’
SPAIN - Institutional investors were put into the dock on their approach to commodities indices, at the World Cup of Indexing Conference.
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Dutch doctors’ fund interim CIO moves on
NETHERLANDS – Ton Groeneveld, interim chief investment officer at Doctors Pension Funds Services, has left following the appointment of permanent CIO Jan Willem Baan.
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Henderson facing axe at Fife Council
UK – The £950m (€1.4bn) Fife Council Pension Fund has put a roughly £200m global equity mandate out to tender following a review of the scheme’s structure.
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Big German schemes to avoid new linkers
GERMANY – BVV, Germany’s largest Pensionskasse or traditional pension fund, has no immediate plans to buy the new inflation-linked bonds to be issued by the German government from next week.




