Capital Raising News – Page 193

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    Arkansas Teachers takes real estate to 10%

    2008-04-03T17:37:00Z

    UNITED STATES – The Arkansas Teacher Retirement System has approved a new target for estate investments that is almost twice as much as the previous allocation.

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    Morgan Stanley to create real estate FoFs

    2008-04-03T17:35:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Morgan Stanley Investment Management has formed a fund of funds (FoFs) business in real estate.

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    New Jersey commits to high return fund

    2008-04-03T17:33:00Z

    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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    Latecomer Swede enters Finnish market

    2008-03-31T16:47:00Z

    FINLAND - The German fund management arm of Swedish bank SEB has acquired the first Finnish asset for its ImmoInvest open-ended fund, in a €23m deal for an airport-city office block outside Helsinki.

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    Pennsylvania State turns to RE fund of funds

    2008-03-27T17:56:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Pennsylvania State Employees Retirement System has made a $75m (€48.7m) commitment into the fund of funds offering known as Oculus Small Cap real estate fund I.

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    Ohio PERS eyes overseas REITs

    2008-03-27T17:52:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Ohio Public Employees Retirement System is looking at creating an international REITs investment strategy.

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    Chicago Teachers buys Asian exposure

    2008-03-27T17:48:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Public School Teachers’ Pension and Retirement Fund of Chicago has extended its international real estate exposure by agreeing to allocate $40m (€25.7m) to the Merrill Lynch Asia real estate opportunity fund.

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    Maryland State to double real estate allocation

    2008-03-20T17:20:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Maryland State Retirement Agency is doubling its targeted allocation for real estate from 5% to 10%.

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    LACERA books $250m into hotels and Reits

    2008-03-20T17:19:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association has approved $250m (€158.9m) worth of new real estate commitments, to invest in listed real estate and hotels.

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    Pennsylvania eyes opportunities in $461m placement

    2008-03-20T17:16:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System has approved new real estate commitments totaling $461.5m (€293.5m) in the opportunistic sector.

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    San Francisco extends real estate holdings

    2008-03-20T17:14:00Z

    UNITED STATES - San Francisco City and County Employees’ Retirement System made changes to its real estate portfolio to take advantage of market dislocation.

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    ING shuffles European managers for healthcare launch

    2008-03-17T15:30:00Z

    NETHERLANDS - ING Real Estate Investment Management (ING REIM) has shuffled its European management team ahead of the launch of the firm’s first healthcare property fund.

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    Principal creates California JV

    2008-03-14T12:24:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Principal Real Estate Investors has created a new joint venture with The Martin Group to invest in Californian real estate.

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    Fortis forms car pool with Vinci

    2008-03-10T16:57:00Z

    EUROPE - Insurer Fortis is in exclusive talks with French firm Vinci to pool the firms’ European carpark assets in a joint venture.

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    FSP raises the ceiling on property

    2008-03-10T16:05:00Z

    DENMARK- Finanssektorens Pensionskasse, the Danish pension scheme forfinancial sector workers, is adding a hefty slice of property exposureto the unit-linked scheme now used by all new members.

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    Arizona State cuts follow-ons to limit market impact

    2008-03-06T17:01:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Arizona State Retirement System is cutting back on its follow-on commitments to existing real estate investments but still diversifying some assets to prevent ‘denominator’ damage of over-allocation.

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    CalSTRS invests $100m in Nordic real estate

    2008-03-06T16:55:00Z

    UNITED STATES - California State Teachers Retirement System has bolstered its international real estate portfolio with commitments to three new investment entities totalling nearly $252m (€165.2m), including $100m in Nordic property.

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    Norway appoints Partners Group for real estate advice

    2008-03-03T14:00:00Z

    NORWAY – The Norwegian Ministry of Finance has appointed PartnersGroup to provide real estate consultancy services to the NOK 2.1trn(€265bn) Government Pension Fund - Global.

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    German doctors mull infrastructure

    2008-02-29T12:00:00Z

    GERMANY – The €9bn Nordrheinische Ärzteversorgung (NAEV), the German pension fund for doctors in the North Rhine region, is contemplating a move into infrastructure investments.

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    CalPERS allocates $2.4bn to timberland

    2008-02-29T11:55:00Z

    UNITED STATES - California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) has made an initial new allocation to invest 1% of its total plan assets in timberland, which means $2.4bn (€1.6bn) could be invested to the property type over several years.