All Investment Vehicles articles – Page 265

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St Bride's launches office, industrial club funds in London

2011-02-14T13:45:00Z

Start-up launched by former ING Real Estate head Robert Houston raises capital for two funds.
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AREA buys nine-property apartment portfolio in Texas

2011-01-13T12:45:00Z

GLOBAL – AREA Property Partners has acquired a multi-family portfolio in Texas totaling nine properties and 2,589 units for an undisclosed sum.
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CBRE Investors' opportunity fund takes over Atlantic Station

2011-01-10T14:15:00Z

GLOBAL – CB Richard Ellis Investors has acquired Atlantic Station in Atlanta, Georgia, from insurer AIG for its fifth US opportunity fund.
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Connecticut scheme seeks separate account manager

2011-01-10T12:30:00Z

GLOBAL – The Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a separate account real estate manager at its December 2010 board meeting.
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Kansas PERS makes $75m commitment to UBS Trumbull

2011-01-10T12:00:00Z

GLOBAL – The Kansas Public Employees Retirement System has signed a contract to allocate $75m (€58.1m) to the UBS Trumbull Property fund, managed by UBS Realty Investors.
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CalPERS transfers National Office Partners portfolio to CommonWealth

2011-01-06T14:45:00Z

GLOBAL – The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) has transferred its National Office Partners real estate portfolio from Hines to CommonWealth Partners.
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APG makes joint bid for ING's €1.9bn Australian property fund

2011-01-06T14:15:00Z

NETHERLANDS – The €266bn Dutch asset manager APG is part of a syndicate bidding for a €1.9bn ING property fund.
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LACERA receives 28 responses to debt manager search

2010-12-16T16:00:00Z

GLOBAL - Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association has received 28 responses to its search for real estate debt managers.
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Less than a third of funds report TER, INREV finds

2010-12-16T15:45:00Z

EUROPE – Less than a third of European non-listed real estate funds report total expense ratios (TER) to their investors, according to industry body INREV.
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South Carolina Employees to establish real estate strategy

2010-12-16T15:45:00Z

GLOBAL - South Carolina Retirement System is planning to establish its first formal real estate investment strategy.
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INREV: Positive capital growth returns to continental Europe

2010-12-16T15:45:00Z

EUROPE – The European Association for Investors in Non-listed Real Estate Vehicles (INREV) has measured positive capital growth across the continental European property markets for the first time since 2007.
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CalPERS combines property, infrastructure and forestry in allocation overhaul

2010-12-16T15:45:00Z

UNITED STATES – The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has placed real estate, infrastructure and forestry in a ‘real’ assets bucket as part of an overhaul of its asset allocation strategy.
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Morgan Stanley opportunity fund extends debt lifeline to hotel owner

2010-12-13T14:45:00Z

EUROPE – A global opportunity fund run by Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing has provided €150m in mezzanine financing to BRE/Hospitality Europe Holding, an owner of a European hotel portfolio.
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AREA Property Partners buys Chicago area hotels for $51m

2010-12-13T13:30:00Z

GLOBAL – AREA Property Partners has closed on its first hotel purchases of the year with the acquisition of three Chicago area properties for $51m (€38.6m).
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Lend Lease provides PGGM with direct infrastructure exposure

2010-12-13T13:00:00Z

EUROPE – Dutch pension fund asset manager PGGM has committed £220m (€262m) in capital to become the principal investor in a joint venture with Lend Lease targeting social infrastructure in the UK.
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AP1 real estate company to invest €770m in property

2010-12-13T11:15:00Z

SWEDEN – Första AP-fonden (AP1), Sweden's first national buffer fund, has created a new real estate company and will acquire more than SEK7bn (€767m) in domestic property assets.
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Invesco begins US acquisition trail for German investors

2010-12-09T15:30:00Z

GLOBAL – Invesco Real Estate has made its first acquisitions in the US for German institutional investors in its MEAG US Immobilien Fonds IV.
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Rothschild Realty Managers invests $200m in Welsh Property Trust

2010-12-09T12:00:00Z

GLOBAL – Rothschild Realty Managers has invested $200m (€149.4m) into Welsh Property Trust, made through Rothschild's commingled fund, Five Arrows Realty Securities V.
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Fund managers ‘failing to withstand investor pressure’

2010-12-06T15:15:00Z

GLOBAL – A director of one of Europe’s major real estate fund management houses has warned that managers risk investor rebellion if they fail to resist attempts by large pension funds to seize control of multi-investor pooled funds.
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Prime property, listed securities to dominate new allocations

2010-12-06T15:15:00Z

GLOBAL – Pension funds will increase their allocations to real estate, focusing on prime assets and listed investments as they seek ways to anticipate global property markets, according to ING Real Estate Investment Management.