All Investment Vehicles articles – Page 297

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    Maryland State to double real estate allocation

    2008-03-20T17:20:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Maryland State Retirement Agency is doubling its targeted allocation for real estate from 5% to 10%.

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    LACERA books $250m into hotels and Reits

    2008-03-20T17:19:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association has approved $250m (€158.9m) worth of new real estate commitments, to invest in listed real estate and hotels.

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    Pennsylvania eyes opportunities in $461m placement

    2008-03-20T17:16:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System has approved new real estate commitments totaling $461.5m (€293.5m) in the opportunistic sector.

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    San Francisco extends real estate holdings

    2008-03-20T17:14:00Z

    UNITED STATES - San Francisco City and County Employees’ Retirement System made changes to its real estate portfolio to take advantage of market dislocation.

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    ING shuffles European managers for healthcare launch

    2008-03-17T15:30:00Z

    NETHERLANDS - ING Real Estate Investment Management (ING REIM) has shuffled its European management team ahead of the launch of the firm’s first healthcare property fund.

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    Principal creates California JV

    2008-03-14T12:24:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Principal Real Estate Investors has created a new joint venture with The Martin Group to invest in Californian real estate.

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    Fortis forms car pool with Vinci

    2008-03-10T16:57:00Z

    EUROPE - Insurer Fortis is in exclusive talks with French firm Vinci to pool the firms’ European carpark assets in a joint venture.

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    FSP raises the ceiling on property

    2008-03-10T16:05:00Z

    DENMARK- Finanssektorens Pensionskasse, the Danish pension scheme forfinancial sector workers, is adding a hefty slice of property exposureto the unit-linked scheme now used by all new members.

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    Arizona State cuts follow-ons to limit market impact

    2008-03-06T17:01:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Arizona State Retirement System is cutting back on its follow-on commitments to existing real estate investments but still diversifying some assets to prevent ‘denominator’ damage of over-allocation.

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    CalSTRS invests $100m in Nordic real estate

    2008-03-06T16:55:00Z

    UNITED STATES - California State Teachers Retirement System has bolstered its international real estate portfolio with commitments to three new investment entities totalling nearly $252m (€165.2m), including $100m in Nordic property.

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    Norway appoints Partners Group for real estate advice

    2008-03-03T14:00:00Z

    NORWAY – The Norwegian Ministry of Finance has appointed PartnersGroup to provide real estate consultancy services to the NOK 2.1trn(€265bn) Government Pension Fund - Global.

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    German doctors mull infrastructure

    2008-02-29T12:00:00Z

    GERMANY – The €9bn Nordrheinische Ärzteversorgung (NAEV), the German pension fund for doctors in the North Rhine region, is contemplating a move into infrastructure investments.

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    CalPERS allocates $2.4bn to timberland

    2008-02-29T11:55:00Z

    UNITED STATES - California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) has made an initial new allocation to invest 1% of its total plan assets in timberland, which means $2.4bn (€1.6bn) could be invested to the property type over several years.

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    New Jersey considers $350m for non-core

    2008-02-29T11:53:00Z

    UNITED STATES - New Jersey Division of Investment is looking at placing $350m (€232m) into non-core real estate investments through commitments to six commingled funds.

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    Chicago Teachers reviews 'emerging managers' status

    2008-02-29T11:51:00Z

    UNITED STATES- Public School Teachers’ Pension and Retirement Fund of Chicago is looking at investing $125m (€84.3m) this year, in international real estate and emerging managers, once the scheme has reviewed its definition of an ‘emerging manager’.

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    Washington places $250m in 'non-traditional' real estate

    2008-02-29T11:49:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Washington State Investment Board has approved a $250m (€168m) commitment into the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Special Situations III commingled fund, to gain global exposure to real estate companies.

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    US pensions show appetite for entity-level investing

    2008-02-29T11:48:00Z

    UNITED STATES - School Employees Retirement System of Ohio is one of several pension funds in the United States showing a significant interest in placing capital into entity level real estate investments.

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    CalPERS approves €850m in real estate

    2008-02-21T17:40:00Z

    UNITED STATES - California Public Employees Retirement System has allocation $859.8m (€587.9m) of new real estate investments in commingled funds containing a mixture of local and international real estate, and debt.

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    NYSTRS creates new industrial JV

    2008-02-21T17:38:00Z

    UNITED STATES - New York State Teachers Retirement System (NYSTRS) has created a new joint venture to invest in western US industrial properties.

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    Russell Investments adds real estate staff

    2008-02-21T17:34:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Russell Investments has expanded its real estate staff with the hiring of Dawne Clark as a portfolio manager.