All Real Assets articles in July 2007 (Magazine)
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Something for everyone
Recent fund launches suggest that if fund managers are running out of big ideas, they aren't short of big ambitions
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MagazineDon’t invest for the sake of investing
Founded in 1990, Austrian multi-employer pension fund APK today has €2.6bn in assets under management. Investment in real estate is driven by opportunity rather than allocation, as APK’s head of investments, Günther Schiendl, explains to Martin Hurst
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MagazineEveryone’s a winner
The required improvements to non-listed fund data and benchmarking are in managers’ own interests as, Lisette van Doorn explains
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MagazineOpportunity in diversity
Kate Medlicott suggests some top city destinations for this summer in the eclectic world of European commercial real estate
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MagazineStrength in breadth
Property ETFs can be a flexible and inexpensive way to benefit from the positive characteristics of property as an asset. Jennifer Grancio reports
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MagazineA close call
Does trading increase real estate portfolio performance? Piet Eichholtz finds the case in favour to be far from overwhelming
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MagazineFriend or foe?
Do consultants benefit investors or merely hinder managers? Sally Hodge investigates
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MagazineFirst brave steps
Growing supply pressures in the domestic market are forcing home-loving Swiss pension funds to venture abroad, but the learning curve will be steep. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports
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MagazineResidential rethink required
Current regulations and a keen local property ownership culture are holding back Spanish institutional investment in real estate, as Adrienne Margolis reports
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MagazineEmbracing the wider world
Portugal’s institutional investors have long been content to invest domestically because of strong returns. Now things are changing, as Adrienne Margolis reports
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MagazineMove right in
A patchy market, major project delays and market fragmentation do little to reassure potential investors about serviced office.
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MagazineEurope’s rising giant: Istanbul
Exciting demographics have propelled Turkey up the league of investment appeal in spite of a shortage of stock and nagging political uncertainties, as Paul Strohm discovers
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MagazineRetail delight
Neville Moss looks at the emerging shopping centre market in Istanbul where exceptional fundamentals present a solid long-term outlook
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MagazineTake a step back
Germany’s impressive economic outlook bodes well for investment in its real estate market, but investors need to consider the options carefully, as Jan Wagner reports
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Driving the common interest
Founded in 2004, the Pan European Property Common Interest Group (PEPCIG), whose membership comprises senior property researchers from about 50 organisations across Europe
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MagazineGoing with the flow
Over the last three years the German real estate sector has grown closer than ever to the capital markets and the trend is set to continue, as Claudio Lagemann reports
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MagazineHome advantage
Despite its initial aim to encourage foreign investment the German government’s new tax legislation now appears to discriminate against foreign funds investing in Germany, as Uwe Stoschek, Sven Behrends and Christina Foth explain
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MagazineEnable transparency
Questions have been raised about the quality of IPD’s German data. Their man on the ground, Daniel Piazolo, explains the challenges of establishing a property market index in Germany
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MagazineService provision plays catch-up
A surge in interest in German real estate raises the stakes for investors. Christian Schulz-Wulkow reports
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MagazineWhat’s bred in the bone
Hard’ factors such as regulation and liquidity only partly define the contours of real estate markets. The cultural stuff can be harder to negotiate. Shayla Walmsley reports
