European Investors News – Page 230
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Savills sets focus on real estate alternatives
UK – Savills has launched a series of papers to identify alternative property sectors, in response to unprecedented volatility seen in the mainstream UK commercial real estate market.
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ING to divest investment management
NETHERLANDS - ING will split its banking and insurance businesses and divest all of its asset management operation within four years.
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VBV re-grades real estate as higher risk
AUSTRIA – The financial crisis has prompted Austrian pension fund VBV to view real estate investing as more risky and tactical in nature than previously assumed, and requiring a more flexible allocation policy.
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INREV members fear market will not recover until 2011
EUROPE – Investor sentiment among the unlisted real estate funds community in Europe has deteriorated since the end of 2008 to the extent that most believe markets will not improve before 2011.
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Varma acts on real estate regrowth
FINLAND – VR Pension Fund has re-entered the real estate market after a two-year absence, following the decision by a Finnish construction company to sell assets to local pension funds.
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L&B Realty expands to Europe
UNITED STATES - L&B Realty Advisors is making its first venture into Europe with a partnership being formed with Mayfair Capital Investment Management.
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Real estate future still uncertain for CEE
CENTRAL/EASTERN EUROPE – While Poland and the Czech Republic are showing signs of recovery, other CEE real estate markets are still suffering from a major investment withdrawal of assets over the last 12 months, according to Austria’s Erste Group.
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Liability-driven investment ‘should contain property’
UK – Liability driven investment (LDI) portfolios should include commercial real estate, according to Pramerica Real Estate Investors.
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USS disposes of industrial space
UK – The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) has sold 11 industrial assets from its recently acquired Equiton portfolio to Scottish Widows Investment Partnership Property (SWIP) Trust.
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Aberdeen pension fund goes shopping in East Anglia
UK – Aberdeen Property Investors has purchased five retail units in the UK on behalf of the Aberdeen City Council Pension Fund.
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BBC pension fund moves out of London’s Regent Street
UK – CB Richard Ellis Investors has confirmed the sale of Mutual House, owned by the pension scheme of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), for £30m (€32.1m), reflecting a yield of 5.4%.
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Tesco continues property deals with pension funds
UK – Tesco has formed a fourth joint venture with a UK pension fund to sell and leaseback property assets, in an effort to release value from its property portfolio.
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GE pension fund caught up in real estate loan battle
FRANCE – Creditors of Paris office complex Coeur Défense may appeal a court ruling which forced them to extend a securitised €1.5bn loan to the property’s joint owners, one of which is a General Electric pension fund.
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USS snaps another high street bargain
UK – The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) has made another retail acquisition in the UK, taking its total UK real estate investment in 2009 to £300m (€327m).
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SWIP re-enters European retail property
EUROPE – Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) has signalled its intention to re-enter the continental European real estate market with the launch of retail fund run in partnership with Cushman & Wakefield Investors (CWI).
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San Bernardino County turns to European debt
UNITED STATES - San Bernardino County Employees Retirement Association is planning to invest a total of €60m (€41m) the Apollo European Principle Finance Fund, although at least $20m of those assets are being as co-investments to specific transactions.
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APG-led action forces ProLogis into talks
EUROPE – Prologis European Properties (PEPR) has postponed an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) following shareholder activism led by APG.
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Return targets are aimed too high, say real estate experts
US/UK – Return expectations for opportunistic real estate strategies targeting the UK and US may be too high, experts have warned.
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RBS pension fund signs airspace tenants
UK – Standard Life Investments has let over 105,000 square feet of warehouse space in the South East of England on behalf of the pension fund of the Royal Bank of Scotland.
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German real estate potential leapfrogs London and Paris
EUROPE – Munich has overtaken London and Paris as the best European city for real estate investment over the medium-term, according to LaSalle Investment Management.
