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    CalPERS’ sustainability reduces tenants energy use

    2008-11-24T17:59:00Z

    US – The California Public Employees’ Retirement System’s (CalPERS) real estate partners have helped make significant progress towards the pension fund’s environmental goals.

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    Real estate derivatives gain fresh impetus

    2008-11-24T17:57:00Z

    UK - Derivatives offer real estate investors good opportunities to diversify their portfolio, according to property experts at the ING Real Estate Annual Seminar.

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    Oregon to follow on Guggenheim fund

    2008-11-24T17:54:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund has approved a $100m (€78.6m) commitment into the Guggenheim Fund II(a),which follows a fund launched in 2006.

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    Ohio School Employees to redeem real estate assets

    2008-11-24T17:47:00Z

    UNITED STATES - School Employees Retirement System of Ohio is in the process of issuing redemption queues on the RREEF America REIT II and BlackRock Strategic Apartment funds.

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    Oregon to follow on Guggenheim fund

    2008-11-24T17:45:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund has approved a $100m (€78.6m) commitment into the Guggenheim Fund II(a),which follows a fund launched in 2006.

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    Property sector finally unveiled for UK unlisted market

    2008-11-24T17:43:00Z

    UK – The Investment Management Association (IMA), trade body to the £3.4trn (€3.99trn) UK fund management industry, and its Performance Category Review Committee (PCRC) have created a new property sector.

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    Dubai acts to shore real estate from market risk

    2008-11-24T17:37:00Z

    MIDDLE EAST - The Dubai Government has formed a committee to tackle the impact of the financial crisis on its previously affluent property market and to restore investors’ confidence.

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    Grosvenor reviews its business priorities

    2008-11-24T17:34:00Z

    EUROPE- Grosvenor is planning to concentrate on developing its fund management business in continental Europe.

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    Aviva signs new real estate finance chief

    2008-11-24T17:33:00Z

    UK – Aviva Investors has announced the appointment of Marcus Shepherd as the company’s new real estate finance director.

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    Negative rental growth now global

    2008-11-17T16:35:00Z

    GLOBAL – Rental growth has turned negative on a global scale and the downturn in emerging markets is accelerating, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) finds in its latest quarterly global report.

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    UK sets new record for fall in capital values

    2008-11-17T16:29:00Z

    UK – UK commercial property capital values fell by record levels last month, according to Investment Property Databank (IPD).

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    UK will start to recover in 2010 – Schroders

    2008-11-17T16:28:00Z

    UK – The UK commercial real estate market will not stabilise until the latter part of 2009 but should begin to recover in 2010 according to Schroder Property.

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    PME looks for global opportunities

    2008-11-17T16:27:00Z

    NETHERLANDS – Pensioenfonds van de Metalektro (PME) is diversifying its real estate exposure by investing opportunistically on a global basis.

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    Europe to produce ‘acceptable’ returns in the medium-term

    2008-11-17T16:22:00Z

    EUROPE – Investors can generate “acceptable or attractive” returns from most of the European markets over the medium-term, according to a report by Invesco Real Estate.

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    Orion ready for European bargains

    2008-11-17T16:20:00Z

    Europe – Orion Capital Managers has raised €900m of capital for its latest opportunistic property fund which will aim to buy bargain real estate across Europe.

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    CalPERS’s housing values plummet

    2008-11-13T16:37:00Z

    UNITED STATES – The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) announced yesterday a 35% decline in the market value of its residential real estate portfolio.

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    Prologis loses chief and halts new developments

    2008-11-13T16:35:00Z

    GLOBAL – ProLogis, the world’s largest logistics developer, has announced the resignation of chief executive officer Jeffrey Schwartz at a time when the company is halting further developments.

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    CalSTRS forced to expand allocation limits

    2008-11-13T16:33:00Z

    US – The California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) has temporarily increased its real estate allocation range to prevent the need to sell assets during a downturn.

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    Sustainability should come first – Watson Wyatt

    2008-11-13T16:29:00Z

    GLOBAL - Investors must place sustainability at the top of their agenda, because it is likely to have a significant impact on commercial real estate and even improve returns, according to Watson Wyatt.

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    German funds hit hardest by institutional outflows

    2008-11-13T16:27:00Z

    GERMANY – Recent redemptions from German open-ended funds (GOEFs) were “mainly driven by institutional investors rather than retail investors,” according to a senior analyst for CB Richard Ellis.