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LACERA earmarks $350m for real estate investment
GLOBAL – The Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA) has approved its real estate investment plan for the 2010-11 fiscal year, provisionally earmarking $350m (€277m) for investment.
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Nebraska puts $63m into core commingled funds
GLOBAL – The Nebraska Investment Council (NIC) has approved $63m (€49.6m) worth of real estate commitments into core open-ended commingled funds.
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New index rates London City offices 'hottest' CRE market
GLOBAL – A new commercial property index launched in London this week found London City offices to be the world's most attractive commercial real estate market, underpriced by 11.6%.
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NYSTRS makes $50m allocation to Cornerstone fund
GLOBAL – The $72.5bn (€52bn) New York State Teachers’ Retirement System (NYSTRS) has approved a $50m commitment to the Cornerstone Patriot Fund, a commingled fund managed by Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers.
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Growth in distressed sales begins to moderate
GLOBAL – The growth in distressed real estate transactions has slowed according to research from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
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Standard Life Investments makes pair of direct buys in Brazil
GLOBAL – Standard Life Investments (SLI) has built up its global fund's exposure to the Brazilian office sector with two direct acquisitions.
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Oklahoma Teachers to invest $425m in core strategy
GLOBAL – The Teacher Retirement System of Oklahoma is planning to invest $425m (€324.1m) into a core, open-ended commingled fund strategy.
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Rising power
Latin America’s greater economic and political stability is catching the eyes of investors, as Stephanie Schwartz-Driver reports
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Viewpoint: Affordable opportunity
Brazil has been on a steady path of low inflation, declining real interest rates and a consolidation of the institutionalization of fiscal stability. As world markets suffered through recession during 2009 and the first half of this year, the strong growing domestic market brought Brazil to a 10% annualised GDP ...
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Brookfield Properties reinvents self, invests $1.4bn in offices
GLOBAL – Brookfield Properties is planning to invest more than $1.4bn (£885m) in 16 offices across Australia held by Brookfield Asset Management and reposition itself into a "global, pure-play office property company".
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European institutional investors thinking twice about US
GLOBAL – Concerns over the fragility of the US economic recovery have caused European institutional investors to reassess the attractiveness of the country's real estate market.
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Texas Teachers earmarks $1.1bn for real estate investment
GLOBAL – The Teacher Retirement System of Texas has approved $1.1bn (€849.5bn) worth of new commitments to real estate.
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Kansas PERS invests $30m in Harrison Street fund
GLOBAL – The Kansas Public Employees Retirement System has approved a $30m (€23.1m) commitment to the Harrison Street Real Estate Partners III commingled fund.
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European occupancy markets dragged down by austerity measures
GLOBAL – While occupier demand is rising in the majority of countries across the globe, austerity measures to reduce fiscal deficits are causing a drag on euro-zone and UK real estate markets, according to the latest global report from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
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Ohio School Employees to invest as much as $125m over next 12 months
GLOBAL – The School Employees Retirement System of Ohio is aiming to invest as much as $125m in real estate over the next 12 months.
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Rothschild makes first investment in New York office market
GLOBAL – Rothschild Realty Managers has made its first-ever investment in the New York office market with a $150m (€116m) investment in RXR Realty.
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Transactions on the rise globally, but down in Asia: JLL
GLOBAL – The volume of global real estate transactions in the first half of this year is almost double that of the same period in 2009, but deals in Asia-Pacific dropped by more than a third between the first and second quarters, according to Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).
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University of California to invest $300m in REITs
GLOBAL – The University of California Retirement Plan and General Endowment Plan are planning to make a $300m (€238m) investment in REITs.
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CalSTRS to conduct core search in the next 12 months
GLOBAL – The California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) is planning to send out a Request for Proposal for core managers within the next 12 months.
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Santa Barbara County hires ORG as real estate consultant
GLOBAL – ORG Real Property has won a real-estate consultancy tender from the Santa Barbara County Employees Retirement System that will give the company full investment discretion.
