All Real Assets articles in May 2006 (Online) – Page 2
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Nominations due for IPE Real Estate Awards
REAL ESTATE - The IPE Real Estate Investor Forum and Awards 2006 are taking place at the Amsterdam Hilton on June 1 – and now’s your chance to make your nominations. “The awards are the first event to honour investors and servic...
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European fund tenders $100m+ in real estate
REAL ESTATE – A continental European corporate pension fund has tendered substantially excess of $100m (€78m) in indirect global real estate via IPE-Quest. The search (QN624) states the investor has no preferred benchmark (although the...
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ABP involved in €484m hotels deal
REAL ESTATE – Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, Europe’s largest pension fund, is among a group that has bought four European hotels in a deal that will eventually be worth around $621m (€484m). The giant civil service fund, along wit...
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Morley adds three amid inflows
REAL ESTATE - Morley Fund Managers has hired three new fund managers for its life UK real estate team. Barry Hill, Justin Brand and Henry Richardson replace three fund managers promoted internally. Hill, who joins from Arlington Property Inv...
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BPF Bouwinvest caught up in Strasbourg row
REAL ESTATE - BPF Bouwinvest, the real estate arm of Dutch pension fund BPF Bouw, has become embroiled in a row between the European Parliament and its host city Strasbourg. Dutch MEP Edith Mastenbroek has been quoted as saying the “current...
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Germany’s BVV steps up international real estate
REAL ESTATE – BVV, a €17.7bn pension fund for Germany’s financial services industry, has stepped up its investments in international property funds to compensate for continued weakness in the domestic real estate market. In its a...
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Merrill nabs two for European real estate
REAL ESTATE - Merrill Lynch has poached two Citibank staff for its real estate arm in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Incoming managing director Joe Pedlow will expand the bank’s London-based commercial real estate financing team...
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Pennsylvania fund in govt leasing move
REAL ESTATE- The Pennsylvania State Employees Retirement System has setup an investment program to invest in properties leased to the federal government. The fund has agreed to invest $30m of equity into the Oxford Development Fund I. This is a ...
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Savills Spanish chief jumps to Jones Lang Lasalle
REAL ESTATE - Savills says it is unlikely to replace Marcus Lemli when the director of Spanish investment leaves later this year.
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Morley launches real estate trading facility
REAL ESTATE - Morley Fund Management has unveiled a UK “trading facility” for its own unlisted real estate funds. It said the move had been driven by “considerable investor demand” from institutions throughout Europe. T...
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Rodamco’s direct investment returns 11.4%
REAL ESTATE - The direct investment returns on real estate of Rodamco Europe have risen by 11.4% to €93.7m during the first quarter, it announced. Its triple net asset value per share increased by 5.9% to €64.02. Rodamco’s indire...
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Texas Teachers invests $400m
REAL ESTATE - The $100bn (€77.8bn) Teacher Retirement System of Texas has decided to place $400m of its real estate allocation into three commingled funds. The Austin-based fund chose to invest into two opportunity funds. It has made a ...
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€50bn German REITs market seen
REAL ESTATE – German Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) will bring huge benefits for Frankfurt’s financial centre – including creating a new €50bn property market that would put it on par with London and ahead of Paris, a n...
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German investors hint at more acquisitions
REAL ESTATE - Eurocastle, the largest listed owner of German commercial real estate, has hinted at imminent acquisitions in its new annual report. The offshore company, which is managed by US investment firm Fortress, said it was looking at R...
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Pramerica signs agreement for retail venture
REAL ESTATE - Pramerica Real Estate Investors has signed a contract to form a joint venture with Cousins Properties to invest in retail properties. The deal – involving five Cousins properties - could be approved by the end of the month. ...
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Schroders scheme ups property allocation
REAL ESTATE - Schroders has shifted its £500m (€733m) pension fund towards UK commercial real estate – with investment head Alan Brown slamming the “transparently wrong” assumptions underpinning asset/liability modelling....
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Prudential opens Asia real estate office
REAL ESTATE - Prudential is to open an Asia-Pacific regional office in Singapore. The new office – a joint venture between Prudential Property Investment Managers, the UK real estate business, and fund management firm Prudential Corporation ...
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Morgan Stanley cuts forecast, boosts Euro team
REAL ESTATE - Morgan Stanley analysts last week forecast a 10% fall in the value of European real estate to the end of 2007 – as the bank’s investment management arm boosted its real estate team with two new senior managers. Concern o...
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Cazenove says investors hail new trade platform
REAL ESTATE - Cazenove says most investors have welcomed the new real estate trading facility it has launched along with Morley Fund Management and DTZ. Morley last week unveiled a UK "trading facility" for its own unlisted real estate f...
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AEW raises €532m from schemes, endowments
REAL ESTATE- AEW Capital Management has closed its money raising for its latest commingled fund, AEW Partners V. It attracted equity capital from both pension funds and endowments totaling $686m (€532m). AEW portfolio manager Mark David...
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