All Americas articles – Page 164
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Morgan Stanley brings $2.5bn to Special Sits III
UNITED STATES - Morgan Stanley Real Estate has attracted $2.5bn (€1.6bn euros) of institutional capital for the latest round of fund raising for Special Situations Fund III.
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Indiana PERF moves $150m into real estate
UNITED STATES - Indiana Public Employees Retirement Fund has approved commitments totaling $150m (€
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Orange County works on commingled fund manager search
UNITED STATES - Orange County Employees Retirement System is nowworking on a search to hire new commingled fund real estate managers.
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Nebraska adds to real estate portfolio
UNITED STATES - Nebraska Investment Council has expanded its real estate portfolio by making a $25m (€16.1m) commitment to the Five Arrows Realty Securities V commingled fund.
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Investor interest lifts non-core Rockpoint to $2.5bn
UNITED STATES - Rockpoint Group LLC has attracted $2.51bn (€1.58bn) of equity for its latest commingled fund, Rockpoint Real Estate fund III but says the sum could have been larger on the back of investor demand.
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DRA invests half of its new $1.25bn fund
UNITED STATES - DRA Advisors has already spent around 50% of the $1.25bn (€787.4m) of equity it has just finished for its DRA Growth and Income Fund VI.
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Washington State outshines Oregon’s commitment to Lone Star
UNITED STATES - Washington State Investment Board has approved a commitment of up to $600m (€375.1m) into the Lone Star Fund VI commingled fund.
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Canyon Capital raises $1bn for urban fund
UNITED STATES – US-based pension funds were among the biggest investors to Canyon-Johnson Urban Fund III, which has received equity commitments from investors totaling $1bn (€627.4bn).
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State of Virginia pursues $300m opportunity
UNITED STATES - Virginia Retirement System has made a $300m (€188.5m) commitment to the investment entity Security Capital Income Opportunity Investors, LLC.
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Illinois Teachers signs two core accounts
UNITED STATES - Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois has hired Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers and Invesco Real Estate as its new core separate account real estate managers.
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Mass PRIM places all REITs in one week
UNITED STATES - Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board is a good example of the difference of investing in public and private real estate, as in the first week of March, the pension fund was able to place its entire REIT allocation for the year, worth $540m (€342.1m), in the ...
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Kimpton books $246m into hotels
UNITED STATES - Kimpton Group Holding raised $246m (€155.6m) through institutional partners for its latest hotel investment fund, Kimpton Hospitality Partners II.
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Swiss pensions increase AIFAA’s US play
UNITED STATES/SWITZERLAND - AIFAA, an investment company backed by 12 Swiss pension funds, has doubled the size of its real estate portfolio in the United States by acquiring two properties in all-cash deals for $72m (€45.9m).
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Pension fund shops for real estate via AEW-Weingarten JV
UNITED STATES - AEW Capital Management and Weingarten Realty Investors have formed a $229m (€144.2m) partnership for the recapitalization of a US-based retail portfolio, which is expected to benefit an unnamed US pension fund.
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Texas Teachers applies $600m to non-core property
UNITED STATES - Teacher Retirement System of Texas approved $600m (€382.1m) of new real estate commitments in March to non-core real estate commingled funds.
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Pension funds are "comfortable" with global investment
GLOBAL - Pension funds are increasingly comfortable investing in overseas markets they see as subject to increasingly global standards of transparency, according to Standard Life Investments.
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Europe wins lion’s share of real estate inflows
EUROPE - Europe was the major target of global capital flows for real estate transactions in 2007, capturing 40% of the total $339bn (€215bn) in real estate transactions last year, according to data released by Real Capital Analytics (RCA).
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US REITs see turnaround
US – Real Estate Investment Trusts may be staging an investment comeback and breaking out of the trough they were stuck in for the last three quarters of 2007, suggest figures released by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT).
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New Jersey commits to high return fund
UNITED STATES - New Jersey Division of Investment has approved a $100m (€64.1m) commitment to the Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners III commingled fund.
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Ohio Police & Fire invest $162m in real estate
UNITED STATES - Ohio Police & Fire pension fund has approved a real estate strategy to invest $162m (€103.8m) in the asset class for 2008.
