All Investment Vehicles articles – Page 288

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    Alameda County opts out of JP Morgan commingled fund

    2008-10-23T17:59:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Alameda County Employees Retirement Association has decided it wants to pull out of its commitment to JP Morgan’s Alternative Property Fund.

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    Ohio PERS grabs opportunity to look beyond the value-add

    2008-10-23T17:57:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Ohio Public Employees Retirement System will be shifting some of its investment capital in real estate to an opportunistic strategy in a bid to tap the little investment likely to surface over coming months.

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    CalPERS reserves $400m for hotel fund

    2008-10-23T17:56:00Z

    UNITED STATES - California Public Employees Retirement System has made a $400m (€300.4m) commitment to the Starwood Capital Hospitality Fund II, following earlier success with an first version of Starwood’s specialist fund.

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    SanFran to become selective in real estate

    2008-10-23T17:55:00Z

    UNITED STATES - San Francisco City and County Employees’ Retirement System is slowing down its real estate decisions to match the state of the US market and will make very selective investment decisions for the rest of the year.

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    California Uni puts real estate on ice

    2008-10-23T17:54:00Z

    UNITED STATES - The University of California Retirement Plan has put plans to increase its real estate target allocation on hold until markets turbulence and returns have calmed.

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    INREV calls for single best practice framework

    2008-10-20T17:08:00Z

    GLOBAL - Fund managers and investors have been invited to consider plans to combine all eight industry guidelines established by the European Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles (INREV) into one integrated best practice document.

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    Office deal spreads EPISO assets across France

    2008-10-20T17:03:00Z

    EUROPE – The European Property Investors Special Opportunities (EPISO) fund has increased its property holdings in France after purchasing a €145.6m portfolio from Credit Agricole Asset Management.

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    Merrill to invest $2.65bn in Asian real estate

    2008-10-20T16:56:00Z

    ASIA – Merrill Lynch has closed its Asian Real Estate Opportunities Fund after raising $2.65bn for investments despite the turbulent economic climate.

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    Financial stress showing on apartment complex

    2008-10-16T18:08:00Z

    UNITED STATES- The Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village apartment complex in New York, which is backed financially by pension funds, is going through some financial stress.

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    Mass PRIM makes additions in real estate

    2008-10-16T18:06:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board has selected a new real estate consultant and added an office building to its real estate portfolio.

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    GIC to invest in debt fund worth $2.5bn

    2008-10-16T18:05:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Divco West Properties and LoanCore Capital have come together to form a $2.5bn (€1.8bn) investment fund which will target real estate debt opportunities at major institutional investors such as Singapore’s GIC.

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    Federal Capital attains $230m in first fundraising

    2008-10-16T18:04:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Federal Capital Partners has closed its first commingled fund with a capital raisin of $230m (€168.5m) through FCP Fund I.

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    Buchanan Street Partners to be principal investor only

    2008-10-16T18:01:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Buchanan Street Partners has shifted its business to focus solely on acting as a principal investor for all of its real estate investments.

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    Italian real estate held ground in H1

    2008-10-13T17:26:00Z

    EUROPE – The total return of Italian pooled property funds dropped during the first half of 2008 but still managed stay in positive territory of 4.1%, according to the latest results from IPD’s Italian Pooled Property Fund study.

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    Brazil’s FUNCEF to tackle equity fall with real estate

    2008-10-13T17:15:00Z

    BRAZIL – FUNCEF, Brazil’s third-largest pension fund and one of the largest in Latin America, plans to allocate approximately BRL520m (€611m) to the fund’s real estate portfolio in a bid to diversify its assets following a huge drop on its chosen equity index

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    Dumfries reviews real estate manager and allocation

    2008-10-13T17:00:00Z

    UK – Dumfries and Galloway pension fund is looking to appoint a pension fund investment manager to manage up to £45m (€58.2m) in its UK and global property assets.

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    Market pressures force fund extensions

    2008-10-10T16:42:00Z

    EUROPE – Non-listed real estate funds are increasingly extending the life of their vehicles rather than liquidating them in a bid to avoid the forced sale of their assets at current low market prices, the European Association for Investors in Non-listed Real Estate Vehicles (INREV) has found.

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    European real estate shown as Canadian target

    2008-10-10T16:36:00Z

    CANADA/EUROPE - Major Canadian pension funds continue to invest in European real estate, despite the credit crunch, as consumer and investor confidence remains high, according to DTZ.

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    Los Angeles City seeks a wider view

    2008-10-09T17:40:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System has approved two new real estate commitments totaling $45m (€33.1m) which will see the pension fund invest in REITS and Latin America.

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    Alaska Retirement holds back from real estate

    2008-10-09T17:37:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Alaska Retirement Management Board has decided not to allocate any new capital to real estate investment in fiscal 2009.