All Real Assets articles in May 2010 (Online) – Page 2
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NewsBVI issues open-ended counter-proposal
GERMANY - The German Investment and Asset Management Association (BVI) has weighed into the debate over mooted restrictions on open-ended funds, sparked by a federal ministry proposal that would require property valuations to be cut by 10%.
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NewsVR Pension buys Tampere hotel development
FINLAND – VR Pension, the €920m Finnish state railway workers pension scheme, has agreed a joint venture with Stockholm-based hotel firm Scandic to build a hotel in the centre of Tampere, Finland’s second largest city.
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NewsBanks will ‘drip feed, not dump’ property assets
UK – More banks will offload their real estate assets via joint ventures with property companies – then drip-feed those left over, according to John Danes, Aberdeen’s head of UK research and investment strategy.
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NewsIllinois State doubles ING Clarion account
UNITED STATES – Illinois State Board of Investment has allocated an extra $200m (€155m) to its existing separate account mandate with ING Clarion Partners as it seeks to increase its real estate exposure.
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NewsMacro drives Euro growth as UK confidence boosts non-listed funds
EUROPE - Broad recovery in European property markets raises the prospect that markets such as Denmark and the Netherlands could escape the cyclical downturn altogether.
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NewsInvestors look past prime to secondary assets
EUROPE - European pension funds will look to secondary assets in search of higher returns as economies recover across the region, according to Simon Mallinson, director of research at Invesco.
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NewsNorwegian oil fund appoints PE property manager
NORWAY - Karsten Kallevig is to manage the planned NOK140bn (€16.6bn) property portfolio of the €346bn Norwegian Global Pension Fund. The Tokyo-based partner in real estate private equity firm Grove will join the fund early in September.
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NewsChinese investors buy back residential after pricing policy move
CHINA - A group of Chinese investors has acquired a prime serviced residential block in Shanghai from SEB Asset Management (SEBAM)’s Asian property SICAV – the latest deal in a trend for Asian investors to replace capital from European and US pension funds.
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NewsPremature redemptions point to nervous German investors
GERMANY – Redemptions in open-ended real estate funds, sparked by a German ministerial report proposing a 10% cut in property valuations, have caused some managers to re-freeze funds. But fund managers have blamed the latest spate of redemptions on market nervousness rather than a sensible reaction to talk of reform.
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NewsBarCap to sell stake in university housing arm
UK – Barclays Capital is to sell part of University Partnerships Programme (UPP), its on-campus student accommodation manager, in a bid to raise £800m (€933m) for projects that will double the size of its portfolio.
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NewsAPG acquires Nice shopping centre in three-way deal
FRANCE/NETHERLANDS - A three-way joint venture involving Dutch pension fund ABP has acquired Cap 3000, a Nice shopping centre, for €450m.
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NewsEC slates ‘disproportionate’ German tax test
GERMANY – Pension funds will shun German property companies unless the government lifts “disproportionate” tests that allow overseas companies relief on 26% withholding tax, according Ernst & Young.
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NewsOutperformance from asset quality not lease length – L&G Property
UK – Asset quality – not lease length – should be the primary indicator of value for UK property, according to Robin Martin, head of performance analysis and research at Legal & General Property.
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NewsCooper joins Townsend to attack European and Asian markets
GLOBAL – Former ING Real Estate Select CEO Nick Cooper has joined The Townsend Group as part of a push to develop the group’s multi-manager business in Europe and Asia.
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NewsUK lending improves but still faces uncertainty
UK – Bank of England figures show that real estate lending in the UK recovered slightly in the first quarter of 2009, but Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) has warned that secondary assets remain a significant problem.
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NewsCPPIB and Kimco join forces to hunt US retail
AMERICAS – The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has acquired a $166.5m (€125.8m) interest in four US shopping centers through a joint venture with Kimco Realty Corporation.
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NewsValuers ‘could do better’, say investors
GLOBAL – More than a third of investors believe valuers “could do better”, according to an unpublished survey of 63 fund managers active in a number of markets.
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NewsMaine PERS to ramp up real estate exposure in 2010
UNITED STATES - Maine Public Employees Retirement System is planning to invest between $100m (€76.5m) and $200m in real estate in 2010.
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NewsPension funds and IVG co-invest in green fund
EUROPE – Four unnamed pension funds – three German, one Austrian – have each invested €33m in a €300m sustainable office fund.
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NewsHalf of real estate funds ‘will bleed to death’
GLOBAL - As many as 50% of fund managers will go out of business in an industry shakeout that still has far to go, according to Claude Angéloz of the Swiss-based Partners Group.
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