Latest Alternatives News – Page 315
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Pennsylvania State signs to $1bn Mexico fund
UNITED STATES - Pennsylvania State Employees Retirement System is thinking of making a commitment to a $1bn (€681.3m) Latin America residential fund being launched by Pramerica Real Estate Investors.
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Illinois Teachers widens separate account plans
UNITED STATES - Teachers Retirement System of the State of Illinois is planning a shift in its separate accounts real estate programme when it makes its next manager search.
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Alternative investments to carry more weight - ING
UK - Alternatives sectors are likely to register more on the agenda as UK pension funds seek to gain more exposure to real estate assets, according to ING Real Estate Investment Management.
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UK property delivers negative return
UK - Real estate delivered a negative return of 1.1% in Q3, according to the IPD UK Quarterly Index – the first in its history – but real estate still outperformed property equities, which had a negative return of –10.3% for the three months to September.
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LACERA trades property for commingled fund
UNITED STATES - Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association has sold a shopping centre in Los Angeles and traded it for an investment into a commingled fund with the same real estate manager.
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US pension funds rest sleeping capital in hotels
UNITED STATES - Pension funds are still eyeing hotel properties as a good investment, as San Diego is the latest to shift additional assets into the sector and Principal has made its first purchase for investors.
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CalSTRS sets up retail JV
UNITED STATES - California State Teachers Retirement System has established a new joint venture with Urban Retail Properties Company to invest in retail properties.
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US pension funds make play for value-added apartments
UNITED STATES - Pension funds in the United States are moving some capital into investing in value-added apartments, as renter demand for flats is believed to be on the upswing.
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Land is the new property, say planners
UK - Greenbelt and brownfield land earmarked for development is rapidly emerging as a sub-asset class in an otherwise overvalued real estate market.
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Macro growth boosts Nordic retail
NORDICS - Pension funds have an irrational attachment to office real estate when they should be looking to outperforming retail, according to fund manager Cordea Savills.
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CalPERS places fresh $600m in real estate
UNITED STATES - California Public Employees Retirement System has placed $600m (€424.5m) into a combination of commingled funds, co-investments and separate accounts for international and opportunistic strategies.
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UK, Spanish banks in sale-and-leaseback deals
UK/SPAIN - Two banks involved in the acquisition of ABN Amro are selling off most of their remaining property assets in a series of sale-and-leaseback deals.
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Oslo property market is ‘the new Helsinki’
NORWAY – Europe is good but Norway is better, according to a property market report published by Close, the independent merchant bank.
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US pension fund capital heads back to core
UNITED STATES - Some pension fund capital in the United States is flowing against the tide and being reallocated to a core investment strategy.
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Credit crunch creates PE buyers’ market
GLOBAL - Excess capital accumulated by US real estate private equity funds in the first half of 2007 will help them mop up in a downward-valued market, according to an Ernst & Young report on real estate private equity funds.
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Strategies switched amid lower Romanian returns
ROMANIA - Charlemagne Capital’s €110.5m sale of three Romanian property assets last week indicates a significant shift in that market, according to investors.
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State of Alaska branches out into timber
UNITED STATES - Alaska Retirement Management Board has expanded into timberland for the first time with a $200m (€142.5m) allocation.
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Select-service hotels hit Warburg Pincus’ radar
United States - Warburg Pincus Real Estate Fund I and Triyar Hospitality have formed a joint venture to develop and acquire ‘select-service’ hotels.
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BT pension fund to sell £240m portfolio
UK – Hermes Real Estate has placed 10 property vehicles on the market, in the hope of generating £240m (€346m) for the BT Pension Scheme.
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SBB sells 9,800m2 to fund pensions
SWITZERLAND - The Swiss federal railways SBB has sold another one of its real estate holdings under its funding promise to the SBB pension fund.
