All Investment Vehicles articles – Page 298

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    AXA latest to lock in fund investors

    2008-02-04T16:48:00Z

    EUROPE - AXA last week became the latest manager to halt investor withdrawals when it imposed a six-month deferral on “switches out, surrenders from and transfers out of” its AXA Pension property fund.

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    Vervoer invests in RaboBouw infrastructure

    2008-02-04T14:45:00Z

    NETHERLANDS –Vervoer, the €6.4bn industry-wide pension fund for the private transport sector, has been cited as one of the main investors for a new infrastructure investment fund created by Rabobank’s subsidiary Rabo Bouwfonds.

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    CA Immo postpones G-Reit

    2008-01-31T17:07:00Z

    AUSTRIA/GERMANY – The €3.5bn Austrian real estate company CA Immo has decided to postpone the launch of a German Reit because of current market conditions.

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    Orange County adopts commingled strategy

    2008-01-31T17:04:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Orange County Employees Retirement System is adopting a real estate investment strategy which will see it only invest in commingled funds.

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    Ohio School expands into global REITs

    2008-01-31T16:54:00Z

    UNITED STATES – The School Employees Retirement System of Ohio has expanded into global REITs investment for the first time with a $200m (€135.4m) allocation.

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    LACERA commits to pan-European fund

    2008-01-31T16:52:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association has approved a $25m (€16.9m) commitment into the Europa fund III commingled fund, which is also expected to contribute to Nordic and Swiss property deals.

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    Technical change hits PFZW property returns

    2008-01-28T17:17:00Z

    NETHERLANDS - PFZW, the €88bn Dutch pension scheme formerly known as PGGM, said it would maintain its current property allocation despite the portfolio’s significant underperformance in the last quarter.

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    Washington State commits to Brazil

    2008-01-28T17:01:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Washington State Investment Board has decided to allocate $100m (€68.4m) into a commingled fund providing debt and equity investments in Brazilian real estate.

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    US pension funds see new opportunity

    2008-01-28T16:59:00Z

    UNITED STATES – Pennsylvania State Employees Retirement System and the Teacher Retirement System of Texas are two of the latest US pension funds to place capital into opportunity funds.

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    JP Morgan creates $726m apartment JV

    2008-01-28T16:57:00Z

    UNITED STATES - JP Morgan Asset Management has setup a $726m (€498.6m) joint venture with Apartment Investment and Management Company to gain a co-ownership of three apartment complexes in West Los Angeles.

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    French institutions to diversify real estate

    2008-01-21T17:39:00Z

    FRANCE – As much as 60% of French institutional investors will diversify their real estate portfolios either geographically or into different investment strategies, the ratings firm MultiRatings has found.

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    'Mid-sized funds charge more' - INREV

    2008-01-21T17:37:00Z

    GLOBAL - The larger the fund, the lower the management fee is the conclusion of an INREV survey of fees charged by 160 European non-listed real estate funds, except in funds with assets of €100—299m, as they levy the highest fees.

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    Cap rates stay low on in retail shopping

    2008-01-21T17:29:00Z

    UNITED STATES - The Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund has been able to pick up new purchases which suggests cap rates on grocery anchored shopping centers are staying low and have yet to be hit impacted by the changes in the debt market.

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    Shorenstein taps investors for mezzanine deals

    2008-01-21T17:27:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Shorenstein Properties LLC has decided to reopen its last closed-end mezzanine commingled fund Shorenstein Realty Investors Nine to existing investors, in a bid to make gains before financing capital hits the market.

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    Morgan Stanley forms solar project fund

    2008-01-14T17:33:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Morgan Stanley has put together a $200m (€135.9m) solar project fund to invest with Recurrent Energy and provide solar power to institutionally-owned real estate across the country.

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    Principal buys into retail partnership

    2008-01-14T17:24:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Principal Real Estate Investors has created a partnership with McCaffery Interests to invest in US retail properties.

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    Core gains momentum in State of Connecticut

    2008-01-14T17:20:00Z

    UNITED STATES - State of Connecticut Trust Funds has added to its core real estate portfolio by making a $75m (€51.2m) commitment to the Cornerstone Patriot Fund.

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    Danish pensions eye local infrastructure

    2008-01-08T16:13:00Z

    DENMARK – DANISH pension funds say they would welcome to chance to invest in infrastructure projects which could be opened by the government for public-private partnerships (PPPs), ahead of a report from the Infrastructure Commission.

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    ING gets keys to ABP property

    2008-01-07T17:31:00Z

    NETHERLANDS – Dutch pension fund giant ABP has signed the biggest real estate deal The Netherlands to date, and is transferring the assets of its €1.6bn KFN non-listed real estate investment trust to ING Real Estate.

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    PMT sells Paris office

    2008-01-07T17:30:00Z

    FRANCE - Dutch metalworkers’ union Pensioenfonds Metaal en Techniek (PMT) has sold its 30% share of Le Balzac, a Paris office block, to Corio, the property firm 36.6% owned by the €215bn ABP.