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Brookfield expansion targets REITs
UNITED STATES - Brookfield Asset Management has moved into the REIT management business with the acquisition of KG Redding.
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Henderson shorts inside global real estate
EUROPE - Henderson Global Investors has launched a property equities fund with the capability to take long and short positions on real estate listed stocks.
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Smaller schemes opt for Asian fund-of-funds
EUROPE - The European Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles (INREV) has launched a directory of 36 unlisted funds of property funds to meet demand from smaller pension funds and niche-hungry major funds.
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NYSTRS turns $525m to non-core investing
UNITED STATES - New York State Teachers Retirement System is looking at investing up to $525m (€356m) in non-core real state through commingled funds and a separate account.
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MacFarlane raises $1bn for urban investment
UNITED STATES - MacFarlane Partners has raised $1bn (€683.6m) for Urban Real Estate Fund II, making this one of the largest urban commingled funds ever to be created in the United States.
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MagazineRoad to Russia
Investors look East as Europe reaches saturation point; Norwegian real estate remains bullish and Aberdeen launches a bespoke vehicle
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Ohio School Employees places capital into non-core property
UNITED STATES - School Employees Retirement System of Ohio has approved commitments totaling $100m (€67.2m) into two non-core commingled funds, as its investment strategy for 2008 is to ignore the core real estate market.
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Duopoly to define logistics fund market
EUROPE - The European logistics market will diverge into ‘blockbuster’ and ‘niche’ funds, with specialist nous and tenant relationships determining asset managers’ survival in a shaken-out market, claims Peter Davies, fund director of the Goodman European Logistics Fund (GELF).
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Arizona State to take real estate over the border
UNITED STATES - Arizona State Retirement System has decided to open its real estate investment program to the international stage on both the private and public side.
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MagazinePunching above its weight
Founded in 2001, the pension fund of VRT, the public broadcasting company of Belgium’s Flemish community, has €430m total AUM. However it is not short on robustness in its approach. As is common with funds of this size, equities are the mainstay of VRT’s property allocation, as its manager, Florent ...
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MagazineDefining issue
Core, core plus, value added, opportunistic – are these terms of art or science in the world of indirect property investment? Noel Manns reports
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Building advantages
This new series continues as Joseph Hamilton and Pretty Sagoo discuss the importance of real estate in the modern portfolio
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MagazineSizing up the opportunity
Real estate market segmentation offers a new route to returns. Steve Hays reports
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MagazineTaking stock
Frédéric Ducoulombier presents the salient results of a major pan-European survey of institutional investors conducted by EDHEC with the support of Aberdeen Property Investors and Groupe UFG
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MagazinePrices and parameters
Property performance can be measured against inflation but the relationship is far from straightforward, argue Mark Callender, Neil Turner and Jenny Buck
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MagazineAccess, flexibility, efficiency
Some question property securities’ real estate credentials but according to Simon Hedger they have a vital role to play
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MagazineThe learning curve of opportunity
The tangibility of real estate makes it seem more accessible and easier to understand but the increasing complexity of the asset class means that pension funds need an in-depth knowledge of its characteristics. Rachel Fixsen reports
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MagazineCrisis of confidence
Kevin White and Leonard Mills examine the causes and consequences of the credit crunch kicked off in the US residential property market
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MagazineBursting the bubble
We all knew that a market correction would happen, and now it has. What is the damage? Some relish the new opportunities and the prospect of more normal market conditions, as Lynn Strongin Dodds reports
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Don’t panic
With a marked change in sentiment it is now time to rebalance the portfolios, say Kiran Patel and David Richards
