Americas – Page 180

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    Ohio Police and Fire quenches real estate blaze

    2008-12-22T17:43:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund has found it can only allocate $50m (€36.1bn) to real estate investing for the entire of 2009.

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    NAREIM fears loss of carried interest CGT

    2008-12-19T16:03:00Z

    US – The National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers (NAREIM) fears the new US presidential administration will make changes to the way carried interest is taxed and make real estate a less attractive investment and deterring entrepreneurs from taking risks.

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    Investment options widened by CalPERS

    2008-12-18T17:23:00Z

    UNITED STATES - California Public Employees Retirement System has approved a temporary new allocation range for real estate, and selected consultants for both timberland and infrastructure investing.

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    Iowa PERS withholds new capital

    2008-12-18T17:13:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Iowa Public Employees Retirement System has decided not to allocate any new capital for real estate investing into the 2009 calendar year.

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    US investors are feeling the pressure - PwC

    2008-12-18T17:12:00Z

    US – Investor sentiment around North American commercial real estate has plummeted following further weakening of the industry, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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    Pru relocates its real estate divisions

    2008-12-18T16:32:00Z

    US - Prudential Financial is integrating its Real Estate and Relocation businesses as Prudential Real Estate and Relocation Services Inc, in a bid to streamline the firm’s business and operational services.

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    Morgan Stanley exits separate accounts

    2008-12-11T18:14:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Morgan Stanley Real Estate is pulling out of the separate account business.

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    Chicago Teachers to redeem commingled real estate

    2008-12-11T18:09:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Public School Teachers’ Pension and Retirement Fund of Chicago is issuing redemption queues on all of its open-ended commingled funds.

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    Real estate returns add to Harvard woes

    2008-12-08T16:57:00Z

    US - Harvard University’s endowment has lost $8bn (€6.3bn) of investments in the first four months of the university’s fiscal year and is expected to deliver the worst annual returns in 40 years, officials have announced.

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    OMERS makes strategic move to private equity

    2008-12-04T17:06:00Z

    CANADA – The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) has launched a new investment entity which will invest in private companies focused on real estate development, airports and energy.

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    CalSTRS awards capital to existing managers

    2008-12-04T16:57:00Z

    UNITED STATES - California State Teachers Retirement System has bucked the trend and issued new capital to real estate managers, to could be used for potential investment in 2009.

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    Diebold’s pension moves into real estate

    2008-12-04T16:55:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Diebold Corporation’s $450m (€356.5m) defined benefit pension fund has made its first move into real estate investment and made a $10m commitment to JP Morgan’s open-ended Strategic property fund.

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    NAREIT reveals an uncertain future for REITs

    2008-11-27T18:54:00Z

    UNITED STATES - The National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts’ annual convention in San Diego last week confirmed there is serious concern about the future of the REITs market in the current climate and how that will play out over the next couple of years.

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    Texas Teachers considers mezzanine debt

    2008-11-27T18:36:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Teacher Retirement System of Texas may be one the of few US pension funds to make a major investment this as officials are thinking of investing $150m (€116.9m) in mezzanine debt.

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    Shake-up at ING RE Canada

    2008-11-27T18:00:00Z

    CANADA - ING Real Estate announced is making significant management changes to its Canadian subsidiary and losing five members of its senior team.

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    CalPERS’ sustainability reduces tenants energy use

    2008-11-24T17:59:00Z

    US – The California Public Employees’ Retirement System’s (CalPERS) real estate partners have helped make significant progress towards the pension fund’s environmental goals.

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    Oregon to follow on Guggenheim fund

    2008-11-24T17:54:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund has approved a $100m (€78.6m) commitment into the Guggenheim Fund II(a),which follows a fund launched in 2006.

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    Ohio School Employees to redeem real estate assets

    2008-11-24T17:47:00Z

    UNITED STATES - School Employees Retirement System of Ohio is in the process of issuing redemption queues on the RREEF America REIT II and BlackRock Strategic Apartment funds.

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    Oregon to follow on Guggenheim fund

    2008-11-24T17:45:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund has approved a $100m (€78.6m) commitment into the Guggenheim Fund II(a),which follows a fund launched in 2006.

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    Negative rental growth now global

    2008-11-17T16:35:00Z

    GLOBAL – Rental growth has turned negative on a global scale and the downturn in emerging markets is accelerating, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) finds in its latest quarterly global report.