European investors – Page 282
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Berkshire trades direct property for fund
UK - The £1.4bn (€2.1bn) Berkshire pension fund has made a £15m investment into BlackRock's UK property fund.
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Two cheers for the Europhiles
We see a refocus on Europe-specific markets; investors show a preference for German commercial; Belgium makes a blip on the radar, and Asia’s further interest is shown in strategic potential
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Venturing beyond the homestead
Founded in 1926, Zurich civil servants’ pension fund BVK now caters for nearly 90,000 members.
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Sustainability to split real estate pricing - DTZ
EUROPE – Real estate manager DTZ is predicting Europe will eventually develop into a two-tier property market which prices less energy-efficient real estate at a discount.
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F&C property trust to decide whether to quit
UK - Negative investor sentiment towards UK property has driven the F&C Commercial Property trust to convene an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to decide on its own future.
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REITs ‘waiting for long-term investors’
UK - Critics of the poor performance of UK REITs since their launch in January are failing to understand they’re a long-term investment, according to Dave Butler, programme coordinator at UK-based campaigning group REITA.
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Investors turn to active management
EUROPE - Investors will increasingly opt for active management as “indiscriminate yield compression” in Europe ends, according to Aberdeen Property Investors.
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All abroad
Continental European real estate offers a natural second home for UK money scouting for real estate to invest in. But with continental Europe following the same trend, some UK funds are opting to go global. Shayla Walmsley reports
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Safety first
A number of obstacles face Hungarian pension funds investing or seeking to invest in real estate but the outlook is improving, as Krystyna Krzyzak reports
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The rough and the smooth
The way in which German open-ended real estate funds are valued is under scrutiny, but is there a case to answer? Sally Hodge reports
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Time to be fair to Germany...
Is the German real estate sector failing as a destination for foreign investment? Ute Geipel-Faber and Ellen Schwemmlein look at the facts
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Safe as Warehouses
A rapidly expanding sector, logistics offers a more secure investment and higher income return than more mainstream sectors. But there are concerns for investors, as Christine Senior reports
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Further growth in store
The success of the European logistics sector is driving capital well beyond the continent’s prime locations, as Monika Bukowska reports
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Take the high road
With greater globalisation no sector is likely to be more affected by the drive to sustainability than logistics. Ljiljana Grubovic and Ali Nassiri report
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Irish pension fund sells retail stores
IRELAND – The Irish Property Unit Trust is selling some of its retail investments in Cork and Limerick, as well as an office block in Dublin, to finance its stake in a new Cork retail property project.
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McGuire swaps Edinburgh for London
UK – AXA Real Estate Investment Managers has persuaded Standard Life Investment’s Martin McGuire to leave his property remit at the life office and head up one of its core-plus propositions.
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Pension funds give euro focus to Goodman
EUROPE – Asset management firm Goodman Property Investors has picked up a series of new European real estate mandates from pension funds in recent months, the latest of which is from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
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Futures present for listed property
FRANCE - Launch of two European futures contracts on the Paris derivatives market will give investors “cost-effective, simple and efficient” exposure to listed property, according to Liffe, Euronext’s London-based derivatives business.
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Finland remains 'Nordic property capital'
FINLAND - Finnish real estate still offers pension funds credible property investment opportunities despite the small size of the market, according to Aberdeen fund manager Pertti Verhanen.
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Lothian pension tenders its real estate
UK – Lothian pension fund is reviewing its real estate investment manager and searching for a firm to handle the fund’s asset allocation.