All Real Assets articles in June 2008 (Magazine)
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MagazineTough times to raise funds
In a difficult market demand for opportunistic vehicles and funds of funds is rising. Richard Lowe reports
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MagazineHealth of the market
As the climate of risk aversion among banks persists, there is a growing trend for smaller equity financed deals, while borrowers face much stricter lending criteria, says Lynn Strongin Dodds
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MagazineThink goals and goalposts
As performance becomes harder to come by Dutch pension funds are focusing increasingly on manager selection – as well as a number of new areas of investment, as Richard Lowe reports
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Unfazed and undeterred
Uncertainty has slowed activity but, despite a poor year for real estate, strategic allocations have not been cut and some have even increased, Gail Moss finds
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MagazineSolid base required
When should investors re-enter the market? Do we need someone to call the bottom or do we need a more fundamental return to stability in the banking sector?
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MagazineDependence and control
For many pension funds consultants play an important – but not necessarily central role. Sometimes it is better to do things yourself. Richard Lowe spoke to three pension funds about their views
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MagazineWe’re coming to get you
An apparent willingness to pre-empt demands for transparency is unlikely to make governments open their airports to sovereign wealth funds, says Shayla Walmsley
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MagazineEducation, education, education
Investors have reacted to property derivatives with extreme wariness if not alarm; a recent study points to a lack of familiarity as the cause. Iain Reid reports on a new educational initiative.
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MagazineBuilding synergies
Industry associations are reaching out to each other but it is still a very fragmented world out there. The Urban Land Institute draws together the industry’s many stakeholders from architect to investor.
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MagazineSustainability and the bottom line
Pension funds are starting to make progress towards sustainable portfolios but they are still hampered by the absence of a clear cost benefit analysis.
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Addressing the information gap
In a new report*, Richard Bowman and John Wills explain that ‘green value’ is starting to have an impact on property valuations, but further education will be central to future prospects
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MagazineSigns of a breakthrough
Data quantifying the value case for sustainable real estate is growing, driven by institutional interest and regulation.
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The great knowledge challenge
As sustainability moves up the investment agenda GBFC is meeting the growing demand for information via an ambitious research programme.
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MagazineUnite and equip
Building on its report ‘What the leaders are doing’, the UNEP FI programme for 2008 seeks to provide further guidance for stakeholders.
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Critical mass
Germany is a leader in green construction, yet it lacks a standard certificate. Why? Why is sustainability key to the strategy of Union Investment? Chair of its management board, Reinhard Kutscher talks to Martin Hurst
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MagazineWindows of opportunity
Fund terminations loom large, with implications for the range of strategic and tactical investor requirements. Against this backdrop the secondary market provides an opening.
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MagazineTax efficiency or tax risk?
Growing international diversification and demand for more tailored investment solutions presents challenges to investors concerned with minimising the tax burden.
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MagazineConstrained optimisation
In spite of recent market developments the case for both private and public real estate remains strong. They continue to complement other asset classes, although investors may be limiting scope.
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Coalition…consensus…confusion
Industry leaders have waxed lyrical about the EU-REIT. But is this ambition a road to nowhere?
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MagazineCorrelations under Scrutiny
Current market conditions may mean that listed and unlisted are becoming more similar, but there is still plenty of scope for the two to work effectively together.
