All articles by Martin Hurst – Page 4

  • Caution goes to Hollywood
    Magazine

    Caution goes to Hollywood

    November 2007 (Magazine)

    Even a glamorous Beverly Hills setting could not hide a marked change in sentiment at PREA’s autumn conference. Martin Hurst reports

  • Venturing beyond the homestead
    Magazine

    Venturing beyond the homestead

    September 2007 (Magazine)

    Founded in 1926, Zurich civil servants’ pension fund BVK now caters for nearly 90,000 members.

  • Maintaining the focus
    Magazine

    Maintaining the focus

    September 2007 (Magazine)

    Founded in 1988, AFIRE has, as its mission, “provided an opportunity for the foreign investor in the US to become as knowledgeable as US domestic investors”.

  • Natural forces
    Magazine

    Natural forces

    September 2007 (Magazine)

    Charles Lowrey, CEO of Pramerica Real Estate Investors, the real estate arm of the US-based Prudential Financial, joined the company in 2001.

  • Don’t invest for the sake of investing
    Magazine

    Don’t invest for the sake of investing

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    Founded in 1990, Austrian multi-employer pension fund APK today has €2.6bn in assets under management. Investment in real estate is driven by opportunity rather than allocation, as APK’s head of investments, Günther Schiendl, explains to Martin Hurst

  • Magazine

    Driving the common interest

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    Founded in 2004, the Pan European Property Common Interest Group (PEPCIG), whose membership comprises senior property researchers from about 50 organisations across Europe

  • Degrees of influence
    Magazine

    Degrees of influence

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    Rockspring PIM was established in 2004 through a management buy-out of Prudential PIM from Prudential Financial.

  • Inspiring views
    Magazine

    Inspiring views

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    Global investment was a strong theme at this year’s IPD European property investment conference, alongside the central need for more and better information. Martin Hurst reports

  • Clear vision required
    Magazine

    Clear vision required

    July 2007 (Magazine)

    The Asia juggernaut is building momentum but don’t be blinded by the headlights. This was a key message that came out of the recent REIW Asia conference in Singapore Martin Hurst reports

  • News

    Investors should communicate concerns to managers - INREV

    2007-03-19T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - "INREV works hard to persuade fund managers to provide more comprehensive data, but investors also have a role to play in encouraging managers to do this as well," INREV CEO Lisette van Doorn spelled out to IPE Real Estate at ...

  • News

    German real estate market ‘overregulated’

    2006-11-20T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE – The German real estate market is overregulated, the German Real Estate Forum in Frankfurt was told last week. "We need to remove from Germany the need to regulate and overregulate," said Sam Zell, chairman of the bo...

  • News

    Infrastructure ‘unsuitable and overpriced’

    2006-10-16T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - "There is a shortage of ‘boring stable’ infrastructure investment product which is much in demand by institutional investors," according to Jane Welsh, senior consultant at Watson Wyatt. Speaking at the Inves...

  • News

    Greenspan a highlight at AFIRE meet

    2006-10-02T17:10:00Z

    REAL ESTATE – Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan thoughts on the economy were one of the highlights at the annual conference of the Association of Foreign investors in Real Estate held in Boston last week.

  • News

    Value-added theme in ING REIM funds launch

    2006-09-25T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - ING Real Estate Investment Management has launched five new property funds with a total value of €4.25bn. The new offering comprises a central and East European fund of €1bn, a Nordic property fund of €1bn, a French...

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    EPRA conference report

    2006-09-11T17:22:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - Red tape is hindering the development of the Hungarian real estate investment market – that’s one of the messages to emerge from the European Public Real Estate Association conference in Budapest.

  • News

    Pitfalls seen in student housing asset class

    2006-07-17T00:00:00Z

    REAL ESTATE – There’s been a warning over the possible pitfalls of student accommodation as an asset class from a partner at real estate consulting firm Knight Frank. Speaking at a conference in London recently – ‘REITs: An...