Capital Raising News – Page 209
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Pramerica creates investment platform for India
UNITED STATES - Pramerica Real Estate Investors has created an investment platform for investing in India.
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Starwood Land creates $150m JV
UNITED STATES - Starwood Land Ventures has setup a $150m (€95.3m) joint venture with Riverway Properties to invest in residential land acquisition and new project development in Houston.
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SWF to invest $150bn in real estate – DEGI
GLOBAL – Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) will increase their property exposure to 15% over the next few years, German real estate company DEGI estimates in an analysis of the market.
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Immofinanz and Immoeast buy parent's property
AUSTRIA – Constantia private bank is giving up its real estate business and selling to its sister firms, Immofinanz and Immoeast, for €440m.
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Landmark move predicted on real estate FoFs
EUROPE –European institutional investors are likely to see a significant growth in more liquid real estate fund-of-funds in the market as a result of demand from investors, Landmark Partners has suggested.
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Manchester seeks property agent
UK – The £9.6bn (€12bn) Greater Manchester pension fund is seeking a new property management firm to manage part of its real estate portfolio.
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German fund seeks up to $1bn in US core
UNITED STATES - The Deka Global investment fund is looking to invest in United States’ core real estate, to the tune of $500m (€317.4bn) to $1bn.
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LaSalle raising shows less pensions capital in real estate
UNITED STATES - The recent capital raising by LaSalle Investment Management for its Income & Growth Fund V is further proof that pension funds in the United States are not as keen to move capital into real estate.
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US pension funds face slow activity
UNITED STATES – Pension funds have found activity in the buying and selling of real estate is slowing considerably in the United States, as a result of the downturn in prices and sentiment in the property markets.
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Los Angeles City approves non-core commitments
UNITED STATES - Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System has approved three new commingled fund investments totaling $50m (€31.5m), in a bid to diversify its non-core holding.
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Managers avoid dance with pension fund pests (amended)
GLOBAL - Smaller European pension funds are finding themselves marginalised by property fund managers tired of their requests for special terms, according to a US fund-of-funds manager.
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US-based PE funds struggle after record inflows
UNITED STATES - Investors are abandoning smaller US private equity property funds, and opting instead to commit capital to “megafunds” to avoid navigating a saturated market.
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East Capital goes it alone in Baltics
BALTIC STATES - Fund manager East Capital has taken sole control of a joint venture set up to manage its Baltic property funds and expressed optimism for their performance despite an economic downturn in their target markets.
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Finnish PFs snap up Sponda bond
FINLAND - Finnish pension funds and insurers will be the primary investors in a €130m hybrid bond issued by Finnish real estate firm Sponda, according to chief executive Kari Inkinen.
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Washington State sinks $1.2bn into real estate and infrastructure
UNITED STATES - Washington State Investment Board is putting $1.2bn (€770.7bn) into a combination of real estate and infrastructure investments, and taking advantage of the need for debt liquidity in the market.
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CalSTRS invests $1bn in real estate in Q1
UNITED STATES - California State Teachers Retirement System approved investments totalling just over $1bn (€642.2m) into real estate for the first quarter of 2008, in a mixture of core and tactical investments.
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Orange County turns away from separate accounts
UNITED STATES - Orange County Employees Retirement System has started the process of investing in commingled real estate funds and moving away from separate accounts.
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New Jersey turns attention to non-core real estate
UNITED STATES - New Jersey Division of Investment has approved $250m (€161.4m) worth of commitments to non-core real estate.
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BPT beats off Quebec pension fund for Russian assets
RUSSIA - The Baltic Property Trust Group (BPT) has beaten off Russia-hungry rival investors to acquire its latest asset in the market: the first phase of the Country Park business centre in Moscow.
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Pension funds cut managers and look again at Europe
EUROPE - Pension funds are slashing the number of property fund managers they deal with, at the same time as increasing their allocations to an asset class they now see as core to their investment strategies.
