All Real Assets articles in June 2009 (Online) – Page 2

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    Progress continues on real estate sale

    2009-06-22T17:10:00Z

    NETHERLANDS - Progress, the Dutch pension fund of food giant Unilever, has sold three housing complexes in Breda, Groningen and Nijmegen as it continues to divest its directly-held domestic real estate portfolio.

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    Goodman loses Wilkinson to AEW Europe

    2009-06-22T17:12:00Z

    EUROPE - Rob Wilkinson is leaving the Goodman Group to head up AEW Europe’s fund management and separate accounts business.

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    Tesco makes second property pledge to pension

    2009-06-22T17:13:00Z

    UK – Tesco, the global supermarket chain, has signed another sale-and-leaseback deal with pension fund trustees, which will see the fund take a 50% stake in assets worth £458m.

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    Maine PERS selects ORG as real estate consultant

    2009-06-22T17:15:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Maine Public Employees Retirement System has selected ORG Real Property as its first ever real estate consultant.

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    RREEF weigh ups its options over America III

    2009-06-22T17:16:00Z

    UNITED STATES – RREEF, the real estate investment division of Deutsche Bank, is now considering three different options to help it deal with some debt issues for its open-ended commingled fund, RREEF America III.

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    Henderson prepares for two-tier sustainability

    2009-06-29T17:29:00Z

    UK – Henderson Global Investors is aiming to “future proof” its UK real estate assets against the emergence of a sustainability-led two-tier market, the fund manager announced today in its first responsible investment report (RPI).

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    Pramerica creates high-yield debt platform

    2009-06-29T17:31:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Pramerica Real Estate Investors has created a team as part of a move to put together a high-yield debt platform to conduct transactions on a global basis.

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    Danish doctors sell offices to Aberdeen

    2009-06-29T17:33:00Z

    DENMARK – The Doctors’ Pension Fund in Denmark, Lægernes Pensionskasse (LP), has sold two fully-let offices in Copenhagen to Aberdeen Property Fund Denmark, but will be paid half of the €17.8m acquisition price in cash and half in fund shares.

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    BT pension fund sells miner’s head office

    2009-06-29T17:35:00Z

    UK – Hermes Real Estate has sold 20-24 Carlton House Terrace, the UK headquarters of Anglo American, for £66.5m (€78.3m) on behalf of the BT Pension Fund.

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    Hercules receives backing from pensions giant

    2009-06-29T17:45:00Z

    CANADA/UK - The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has injected £100m (€118m) into the Hercules Unit Trust (HUT), a UK retail warehouse fund run by British Land and Schroders, which is in the process of restructuring its £800m debt facility.

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    Texas Teachers makes industrial acquisition

    2009-06-29T17:50:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Teacher Retirement System of Texas has made one of the largest industrial acquisitions of the year by investing $410m (€292.8m) into TLF Logistics.