All Investment Vehicles articles – Page 267

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Texas Teachers-backed property fund makes first investment

2010-11-08T11:30:00Z

GLOBAL – An office building investment fund backed by the Teacher Retirement System of Texas has completed its first investment.
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Norway's Pension Fund Global Fund makes first foray into real estate

2010-11-04T12:45:00Z

EUROPE – Norges Bank has made its first real estate investment for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, acquiring a 25% stake in The Crown Estate's Regent Street portfolio in London.
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Ignis launches separate real estate arm, appoints Hutcheson as MD

2010-11-01T16:00:00Z

UK – Ignis Asset Management has launched a standalone real estate business following inflows of more than £800m (€923m) into its existing property funds in 2010.
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CPPIB, LaSalle join forces on German shopping centre

2010-11-01T14:00:00Z

GLOBAL – DEGI Europa, the open-ended real estate fund in the process of liquidating its assets, has sold a shopping centre in Germany for €157.3m to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and LaSalle Investment Management.
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APG joins group aiming to take over ING's €850m industrial portfolio

2010-10-28T13:00:00Z

GLOBAL – Algemene Pensioen Groep (APG) is one of a number major global investors – also believed to include Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and China Investment Corporation (CIC) – seeking to acquire a A$1.2bn (€846m) industrial portfolio from ING Real Estate Investment Management.
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Maine approves $75m allocation to debt fund

2010-10-28T11:15:00Z

GLOBAL – The Maine Public Employees Retirement System has approved a $75m (€54m) commitment to the Prima Mortgage Investment Trust (PMIT), aiming to take advantage of a lack of debt players in the market.
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Illinois Municipal hires Cornerstone, INVESCO for core strategy

2010-10-28T11:00:00Z

GLOBAL – The Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund has hired Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers and INVESCO Real Estate as core open-ended commingled fund managers.
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Helical Bar, Thameling join central European development drive

2010-10-25T14:30:00Z

EUROPE – Helical Bar and Thameling Group have joined forces to develop pre-let warehouse and distribution properties in central Europe.
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Investors back Sveafastigheter Nordic opportunity fund

2010-10-25T13:30:00Z

SWEDEN – Sveafastigheter, the Stockholm-based private equity real estate fund manager, has made a second closing on its new Nordic opportunistic fund.
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Former WP Carey colleagues launch global sale-and-leaseback venture

2010-10-21T14:00:00Z

GLOBAL – Gordon DuGan and three other former W P Carey executives have launched a new investment company that will specialise in sale-and-leaseback real estate deals.
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Unilever Progress selects core Aberdeen product as it moves into funds

2010-10-21T11:45:00Z

NETHERLANDS – Progress, the Dutch Unilever pension fund, has committed €35m to a core pan-European real estate fund managed by Aberdeen Property Investors.
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Pramerica targets Polish warehouse developments with Panattoni

2010-10-18T15:45:00Z

EUROPE – Pramerica Real Estate Investors has entered into a joint venture with Panattoni Europe to develop a portfolio of as much as €100m of logistics warehouses in Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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BP Pension Fund's Cubemaker joint venture buys ITV assets

2010-10-18T14:45:00Z

UK – Cubemaker Partnership, the joint venture between the BP Pension Fund and Cube Real Estate, has acquired three commercial real estate assets from television company ITV for £11.3m (€12.9m).
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Poland back on the agenda for Germany's NAEV

2010-10-14T14:00:00Z

EUROPE – German pension fund Nordrheinische Ärzteversorgung (NAEV) is considering returning to the Polish real estate market after having divested and taken profits from the region in recent years.
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First Property wraps up USS mandate, returns to Poland

2010-10-11T15:30:00Z

POLAND – First Property Group has returned to its previous business model of launching successive Polish opportunity funds, having concluded its mandate with the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS).
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Invesco Real Estate backs hotels with second European fund

2010-10-11T11:45:00Z

EUROPE – Invesco Real Estate has identified a €168m seed portfolio of hotels to help raise capital for its new pan-European hotel fund.
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GID takes over CalPERS apartment portfolio from BlackRock

2010-10-07T14:30:00Z

GLOBAL – GID Investment Advisers has taken over the management of a core multi-family residential portfolio from BlackRock Realty Advisors on behalf of the $212bn (€152bn) California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS).
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Institutional capital to desert German open-ended funds, says CBRE

2010-10-07T14:15:00Z

GERMANY – Incoming regulations in Germany will see institutional capital leave open-ended funds and be reinvested in Spezialfonds, according to a report by CB Richard Ellis (CBRE).
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Hermes seeks to increase liquidity for BT Pension Fund

2010-10-07T12:30:00Z

UK – Hermes Real Estate is to sell the BT Pension Scheme's interest in the Bluewater Shopping Centre as part of a wider rebalancing of the portfolio away from "less liquid" indirect and joint venture holdings in the UK.
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PensionDanmark makes 'significant' expansion in real estate

2010-10-07T11:45:00Z

DENMARK – Labour market fund PensionDanmark is expanding its portfolio of domestic real estate with a new DKK500mn (€67m) investment in Århus.