All articles by Barbara Ottawa – Page 11
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'Diversification threshold' for Europe is seven, says Invesco Real Estate
EUROPE – Having more than seven markets in a pan-European portfolio will not bring additional diversification, according Robert Stolfo, director of business development at Invesco Real Estate.
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Invesco boosts real estate assets with AIG deal
ASIA – Invesco Real Estate has taken over AIG Real Estate's Asian fund and asset management business, with around €2.7bn in assets under management and 60 employees.
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German roundup: AXA IM, infrastructure, Fleischhauer, Hoyer & Partner
GERMANY – Out of Germany's 156 institutional investors, Pensionskassen were the only ones to identify direct real estate holdings as more risky than indirect investments in a survey commissioned by AXA Investment Managers.
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German institutional investors seeking stability in core, core-plus
GERMANY – The majority of German institutional investors are employing a core or core-plus investment style for their indirect real estate portfolios and increasing risk management for those investments, according to a survey by kommalpha.
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German institutions swapping bonds for real estate, says Greenwich Associates
GERMANY – German institutional investors, in their search for stable returns without increasing risk, are turning away from European fixed income to real estate, while faith in external managers and consultants remains low, according to a survey by Greenwich Associates.
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Germany's IntReal makes board appointments
GERMANY – The Warburg-Henderson subsidiary IntReal KAG has named two new board members to cover the areas of risk management and client services.
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Germany sets two-year holding period for open real estate funds
GERMANY – The German government has passed new regulations for open real estate funds (OIFs) that will include a minimum two-year holding period.
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Institutional investors could allocate 25% to open real estate, academics say
GLOBAL – A manager could invest as much as one-quarter of his portfolio into open real estate funds and still boost performance while decreasing risk, according to researchers from the German WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management and the Ludwig-Maximilians university in Munich.
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Back on a different track
Post crisis, the CEE is once again presenting itself as major growth market, Barbara Ottawa finds at this year’s Real Vienna
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Swiss BVK invests in neighbouring city Winterthur
SWITZERLAND – The pension fund for the civil servants of the Canton of Zurich (BVK) will help develop a site in the centre of nearby Winterthur.
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Austria grants German real estate investors tax-free status
GERMANY/AUSTRIA – Real estate investments made by German pension funds in Austria will be tax-free from now, placing them on an equal footing with their Austrian counterparts, an Austrian financial tribunal has ruled.
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Slovenia's PRVA makes first foray into real estate
SLOVENIA – The €185m PRVA second-pillar fund has bought a property in Ljubljana, making its first foray into real estate.
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Emerging markets to lead revival of luxury retail sector, says Colliers
GLOBAL – Rents in the luxury retail sector are set to increase in the near term after a two-year hiatus, according to Colliers International.
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MagazineReality vs liquidity
Some analysts are speaking about a return to real investments, such as property, but for Austrian Pensionskassen this is not reason enough to boost these allocations, Barbara Ottawa finds
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Airport project leaves IVG in the red
GERMANY – German real estate company IVG reported net losses for 2009 of €158m – almost all of which can be attributed to a project near the Frankfurt airport, an IVG-spokesman confirmed to IPE.
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Rebranded DEGI to focus on institutional and Master KAG services
GERMANY – Aberdeen Immobilien KAG, previously known as DEGI, will in future focus its business on the institutional sector, pan-European funds and on offering fiduciary services, according to Hartmut Leser, country head for Aberdeen in Germany.
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Open real estate fund rules set to change
GERMANY – Large investors in German open real estate funds could be legally prevented from withdrawing their money at any time in situations where the funds are suffering liquidity problems.
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Merged Immofinanz dismisses Warsaw listing
EUROPE – The merger of the Austrian real estate companies Immofinanz and Immoeast has been approved by the shareholder meetings but the new joint Immofinanz is unlikely to replace Immoeast on the Warsaw stock exchange.
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IVG moves out of direct German property management
GERMANY – The IVG real estate group is slimming down its operations and transferring its German property management activities to third parties following a bidding process.
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Change of emphasis
Internationalisation, residential focus and the further outsourcing of real estate holdings are the three major trends outlined in a new study on the real estate Spezialfonds market in Germany, discussed here by Barbara Ottawa.
