All Real Assets articles in June 2006 (Online) – Page 2

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    ING REIM opens Nordic office

    2006-06-12T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - ING Real Estate Investment Management has appointed as Peter Helfrich head of its soon-to-open Swedish office. Helfrich was previously senior asset manager of the ING Dutch Retail Fund. The new office, scheduled to open at the beginn…

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    Singapore to invest in student housing

    2006-06-12T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - GIC Real Estate, the real estate investment arm of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, has formed a joint venture with Campus Apartments to invest in the student housing industry. There is a total of $333m of equity i...

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    Tyneside pension fund tenders valuation

    2006-06-12T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE – The Tyne & Wear pension fund has tendered valuation services for its €450m commercial property portfolio. The portfolio, currently managed by Arlington Property Investors, comprises 33 properties located across the U...

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    Ex-CalPERS’ McCook joins new firm

    2006-06-12T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - Mike McCook, the former senior investment officer for real estate at the California Public Employees Retirement System, has found new employment. He is now co-owner of a company in San Francisco called Kenwood Investments. The other ...

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    New editor named at IPE Real Estate

    2006-06-12T00:00:00Z

    GLOBAL – Martin Hurst, features writer at IPE Magazine, is to take over as editor at sister publication IPE Real Estate. Hurst has been with IPE since 2004 and last year won the Best Fund Management Trade Journalist award at State Street Glo...

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    Real estate helps drive Stork’s returns

    2006-06-12T00:00:00Z

    NETHERLANDS - With returns of 29.1% real estate provided a key driver to the returns of 14.7% of Pension Fund Stork, it said in its annual report. Equity returned 29.3% while fixed income yielded 9%. The returns on complementary investments were 1...

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    Henderson in US deal with pension fund

    2006-06-12T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - A US pension fund is to acquire $100m of retail real estate in the Midwest and Western US through a layered procurement deal with Henderson Global Investors. Under the Chicago-based firm’s Manager of Partners account agreement...

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    Henderson appoints Austrian real estate chief

    2006-06-12T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - Henderson Global Investors has appointed Richard Weberberger to head its Austrian real estate team. Weberberger joins from Multi-ImmoEast Asset Management, where, as managing director, he launched an institutional Central and Eastern...

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    Amonis cuts real estate for hedge funds

    2006-06-12T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - The €1bn Amonis pension scheme for dentists, doctors and pharmacists has reduced its exposure real estate – and equities - and ploughed roughly €34.2m into a fund of hedge funds portfolio managed by Key Asset Managemen...

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    Pirelli Real Estate’s Spazio to list in London

    2006-06-05T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE – Pirelli & C. Real Estate SpA’s Spazio Industriale Investments I BV is to list on London’s Alternative Investment Market in a listing aimed solely at institutional investors. “The Italian industrial real es...

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    IPE Real Estate Conference Report

    2006-06-05T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - The second annual IPE Real Estate Conference – held alongside the magazine’s inaugural Awards Gala – drew a heavyweight collection of pension fund investors and consultants to the Amsterdam Hilton last week. Confer...

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    Dutch rail fund questions real estate boom

    2006-06-05T00:00:00Z

    NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension funds will ditch bricks for funds, according to Peter van Gool, deputy director of real estate at Dutch pension fund SPF Beheer. Describing recent market performance as “unsustainable”, he told the IPE Real ...

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    IPE Real Estate Awards: the winners

    2006-06-05T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - Pension funds’ adoption of new models for new markets paid off at the IPE Real Estate Awards last night as investors collected prizes for geographical diversification and the move into indirect investment. The awards, announce...

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    Wisconsin to invest in non-core assets

    2006-06-05T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - The $70.4bn (€54.4bn) Wisconsin State Investment Board is to look at placing some capital into the marketplace this year with a non-core investment strategy. These will be done in a mixture of strategies on both the commingle...

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    AMF Pension still on real estate buy-side

    2006-06-05T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - Swedish pensions manager AMF has sold its Stockholm Wenner-Gren complex to property company Fabege for €68m – but says it remains on the “buy side” in the sector. Mats Hederos, head of real estate at the Swed...

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    NY Teachers in €77m Texas retail venture

    2006-06-05T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - The New York State Teachers Retirement System has put together a $100m (€77.2m) joint venture with Inland Real Estate Corp. to invest in retail properties in Texas. The fund was the driving force behind the venture as it had a ...

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    Deka sells three properties for €690m

    2006-06-05T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE – DekaBank, a major German provider of open-ended property funds, has sold three commercial properties from its core German fund for €690m as part of an ongoing restructuring of the fund. DekaBank began the restructuring of...