All Real Assets articles in August 2007 (Online) – Page 2
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Illinois Teachers schools overseas growth
UNITED STATES - Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois is close to reaching its international real estate allocation as the fund has now approved a further three investments totaling $250m (€184m) into commingled funds.
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Mexico industrial market offers strong opportunity
UNITED STATES - Pension funds in the United States are increasingly looking at the Mexican industrial market as a solid investment opportunity. Rob Kochis, principal with real estate consultancy The Townsend Group, said the Teacher Retirement Syst...
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Turkish retail market growth 'needs work' - VastNed
TURKEY-NETHERLANDS - Expansion into the Turkish retail market could take more work than initially expected, the €1.8bn property investor VastNed Retail has indicated. "The market is not fully ready yet for institutional investments as...
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IVG plans office move into G-Reit
GERMANY – German real estate investment firm IVG Immobilien is expecting to convert its office assets into a real estate investment trust (Reit) but not before Spring 2008, according to the firm’s first half financial results. Details ...
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Nieuwe Steen eyes foreign investments
NETHERLANDS - Property investment company Nieuwe Steen Investments (NSI) is considering extending its activities across the Dutch border in order to improve its returns. "Given the extreme price level and rising interest rates, the options f...
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Cap rates unchanged by debt market volatility
UNITED STATES – Real estate investors are now turning their attention to returns as cap rates on real estate investments in the United States were unaffected through the second quarter despite earlier volatility in the debt markets, suggests Pr...
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Market slowdown bring unitised redemptions
UK – Returns on pooled property remain strong but there was a significant increase in the outflow of money from UK property funds in the second quarter of this year, according to figures from the Association of Real Estate Funds (AREF). Infl...
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Contra Costa County to cross Reits border
UNITED STATES - Contra Costa County Employees’ Retirement Association has decided to take its US REIT investment program to the global stage. The pension fund will be conducting a search for REIT managers over the next few months, according ...
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Morgan Stanley buys a place in assisted homes
UK - Asset manager Morgan Stanley is moving into the UK senior living space through a joint venture worth $1.1bn with established real estate services firm Sunrise Senior Living. This is the first such assisted living market deal in the UK a
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Real estate boosts ING's assets
GLOBAL – Dutch banking group ING saw the assets under management in its real estate division increase by 37% to €74.7bn over the last year. The "ongoing demand for property investment funds at ING Real Estate" led to strong i...
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European appreciation to slow gains in global property
GLOBAL – Invested real estate market is expected to grow by almost 40% in value over the next five years but the European market is likely to see a reduction is appreciation, according to research presented by RREEF. Details of the latest qu...
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Irish property returns up
IRELANDS - Returns on Irish property reached 16.9% in the year to June, despite a continuing exodus of domestic investors into other European real estate markets. IPD figures published last week showed returns on Irish real estate rose from 2.2% i...
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HSBC pulls in property team
UK - HSBC Investments has brought in a seven-strong team of fund selection specialists in a move the firm hopes will increase property-hungry investors’ appetite for multi-manager funds. Guy Morrell, who will head the UK-based team, told IP...
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LACERA resumes global REIT search
UNITED STATES - Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association is now in the planning stages for a new global REIT manager search worth around $100m (€73.1m). John McClelland, principal investment officer for real estate at the pension ...
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Infrastructure 'moving out of real estate' - RREEF
EUROPE – Pension funds are beginning to regard infrastructure as an asset class in its own right rather than as part its real estate allocation, according to officials at RREEF. John McCarthy, head of RREEF Infrastructure Europe, said Europe...
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ING Clarion seeks healthy gains in medical push
UNITED STATES - ING Clarion Partners is looking to invest at least $200m (€146m) in the medical office building sector in the next several years as the firm believes returns are 1% better than in traditional offices. At this stage, capital ...
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BC pension fund buys hotel Reit
CANADA - British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (bcIMC), the investment arm of several Canadian public-sector pension funds, is to acquire a hotel Reit for CA$1.2bn (€800m) in cash. The CA$85bn fund will acquire the Canadian Hot...
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RREEF predicts new spending in Asia-Pacific
UNITED STATES – Institutional capital will head into new countries within the Asia Pacific region such as Vietnam and Brazil over the next two years, according to research presented by RREEF Details of RREEF’s Asia Pacific Property Cyc...
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Boston purchase adds to DTZ global expansion
UK-US - DTZ, the property advisory firm, is to acquire Boston property brokerage FHO Partners in a bid to broaden its global platform. The three-stage deal involves an initial payment of £2m (€4.2m) for the right to acquire the Massachu...
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Pension funds prompt access to Skandia property
UK – Skandia is adding an institutional share class to its Global Property Securities fund as pension funds are demanding the ability to invest in it. Ryan Hughes, fund manager at Skandia Investment Managers Limited (SIML), said pension fund...
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