All Investment Vehicles articles – Page 291
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Quebec extends its Brazilian shopping space
CANADA/BRAZIL – Ivanhoe Investments, the real estate management subsidiary of Canada’s largest pension fund, has boosted its position in Brazil with the purchase of four shopping centres and more than doubled its stake in a local property partner.
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Schroders seeks growth on agricultural land
GLOBAL – Schroders, the asset manager, is hoping to tap into growing global demand for food production by investing in agricultural land.
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Deka’s Westinvest eyes bargains in Lithuania
LITHUANIA – Deka Immobilien, the German asset manager, has shown renewed interest in the Lithuanian retail property market despite inflation pressures on the local economy, by purchasing the Akropolis shopping centre in Vilnius.
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Ohio Police and Fire up real estate allocation by 50%
UNITED STATES - Ohio Police and Fire Pension Fund have increased its real estate allocation from 8% to 12%.
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NYSTRS provides the finance for real estate mortgages
UNITED STATES - New York State Teachers Retirement System has expanded its real estate portfolio with a commitment to several mortgaged transactions and a commingled fund.
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Ohio School Employees commits to office fund
UNITED STATES - School Employees Retirement System of Ohio has approved a commitment of $50m (€32.1m) into the Beacon Capital Strategic Partners VI commingled fund.
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Contra Costa County sees a debt opportunity
UNITED STATES- Contra Costa County Employees’ Retirement Association has approved a $75m (€48.6m) commitment into the ING Clarion Debt Opportunity Fund II – its first investment in a debt fund focused on real estate.
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PBGC eyes move into real estate
UNITED STATES – The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is looking at investing in real estate for the first time and is therefore seeking strategic partnerships so it may allocate up to $2.5bn (€1.6bn) in the sector.
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European focus shifts to air and rail operators
EUROPE – Infrastructure asset managers say new investment opportunities could be emerging for institutional investors as a flurry of new deals are expected to come to the market in the management of air and rail operators.
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Pension fund capital goes green
UNITED STATES – Pension funds in the United States are looking to make their real estate portfolios ‘greener’ so ING Clarion Partners has rolled out a sustainable growth initiative and its first investor is Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions.
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Los Angeles City places capital into debt fund
UNITED STATES - Los Angeles City Employees Retirement System has made a $20m (€12.7m) to the Mesa West Real Estate Income Fund II, in a bid to capitalise on the supply and demand financing opportunities in the mid-size segment of the marketplace.
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Pennsylvania State moves capital into distressed fund
UNITED STATES - Pennsylvania State Employees Retirement System has approved a $15m (€9.5m) into Arden Real Estate Fund I - a distressed real estate fund.
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ING Clarion closes in on value-added space
UNITED STATES - ING Clarion Partners continues with its value-added strategy for some of its capital sources with the closing of $166m (€105.4m) worth of transactions.
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LPFA commits to ING’s global real estate FoF
UK - The London Pension Fund Authority has committed £150m (€190m) of capital to a new global property fund of funds (FoF) launched this week by ING Real Estate Select.
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Consortium completes German HighStreet purchase
GERMANY – A consortium comprising of RREEF Alternative Investments, the Borletti Group, the Generali Group, and Pirelli RE today announced it has completed the acquisition of a 49% stake in “Highstreet”, the investment company owning the majority of Karstadt’s German department store premises.
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F&C merges to expand
GLOBAL - Investors in fund manager F&C have backed a deal with property firm REIT that will give the UK-focused fund manager exposure to continental Europe and the nascent Indian market.
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Small pension funds re-enter property
UNITED STATES - Several smaller pension funds in the United States are thought to be looking to re-enter the real estate asset class, in a bid to diversify their portfolios.
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Rothschild raises $840m for new commingled fund
UNITED STATES - Rothschild Realty Managers has smashed its intended target for capital raising on its Five Arrows Realty Securities V commingled fund and collected $840m (€530m) through institional investors - $240m more than originally sought.
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Germans top poll of European property optimism
GERMANY - German investors have topped a three-market poll of European investor sentiment.
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Choose carefully, says SEB, after UK re-entry
UK/GERMANY - Investors are investing cautiously in UK logistics as they wait for the market to fall further, according to SEB, the German fund management arm of the Swedish bank.
