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Texas buys into Latam real estate
UNITED STATES - Teacher Retirement System of Texas has approved $250m (€164.4m) worth of real estate commitments so far in 2008, including an investment in Pramerica’s Latin American residential offering.
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AP3 urges lifting of infrastructure limits
SWEDEN - Swedish buffer fund AP3 is stepping up its efforts to persuade the Swedish government to lift restrictions on pension fund investments in infrastructure.
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Swedish shoppers overtake industrials
SWEDEN - Swedish retail has overtaken office as the market’s best performing sector, according to the 2007 Swedish Annual Property Index.
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European property to slow despite pensions intervention
Investment in commercial property, having survived the 2007 credit crunch, will tail off in 2008 despite a liquidity injection from liquid investors, investment house Aberdeen has predicted.
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Dubai wealth fund offers €3.1bn for Colonial
GLOBAL – Sovereign wealth fund the Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD) is seeking approval from two major shareholders in Colonial for its €3.1bn offer for the Spanish property firm.
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Doubt over debt deal could put BAA on block
SPAIN - Infrastructure firm Ferrovial has claimed it will go ahead with its £9bn (€11.7bn) refinancing plans despite rumours suggesting Australian infrastructure investor Macquarie was circling the UK airports operator BAA.
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EC pursues UK and Belgium over EPC status
EUROPE – The Belgian and UK governments are being taken to task by the European Commission for their failure to implement EU requirements stating how energy performance in buildings is measured.
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Norway appoints Partners Group for real estate advice
NORWAY – The Norwegian Ministry of Finance has appointed PartnersGroup to provide real estate consultancy services to the NOK 2.1trn(€265bn) Government Pension Fund - Global.
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German doctors mull infrastructure
GERMANY – The €9bn Nordrheinische Ärzteversorgung (NAEV), the German pension fund for doctors in the North Rhine region, is contemplating a move into infrastructure investments.
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CalPERS allocates $2.4bn to timberland
UNITED STATES - California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) has made an initial new allocation to invest 1% of its total plan assets in timberland, which means $2.4bn (€1.6bn) could be invested to the property type over several years.
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New Jersey considers $350m for non-core
UNITED STATES - New Jersey Division of Investment is looking at placing $350m (€232m) into non-core real estate investments through commitments to six commingled funds.
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Chicago Teachers reviews 'emerging managers' status
UNITED STATES- Public School Teachers’ Pension and Retirement Fund of Chicago is looking at investing $125m (€84.3m) this year, in international real estate and emerging managers, once the scheme has reviewed its definition of an ‘emerging manager’.
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Washington places $250m in 'non-traditional' real estate
UNITED STATES - Washington State Investment Board has approved a $250m (€168m) commitment into the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Special Situations III commingled fund, to gain global exposure to real estate companies.
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US pensions show appetite for entity-level investing
UNITED STATES - School Employees Retirement System of Ohio is one of several pension funds in the United States showing a significant interest in placing capital into entity level real estate investments.
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Environment code to calculate property’s carbon emissions
GLOBAL - The Investment Property Databank (IPD) has launched a majorglobal initiative to help real estate owners measure and understand theenvironmental impact their buildings have, as officials believe suchdata will become a component of future real estate pricing andlegislation.
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Pension funds pull out of Equest
UK - The BBC Pension Trust, SAUL, BHS Pension Scheme and P&O Pension Scheme have sold their shareholdings in Jersey-based property investment firm Equest Partners.
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Fair value potential entices investors back to UK
EUROPE - Continental European property yields will follow the widening UK trend in 2008, “though not to the same extent”, according to Tony Horrell, CEO of European capital markets at Jones Lang LaSalle.
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Sovereign funds to save assets in distress
GLOBAL - Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) will take over from private equity as they exercise their financial weight by acquiring distressed assets and companies, according to Ernst & Young’s global real estate report.
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Oil powers Canada returns
CANADA - Commercial property in oil-rich provinces contributed to Canadian returns of 16.1%, compared with 10.5% for equities, and 4.7% for bonds, according to IPD figures published last week.
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Spanish spread boosts logistics
SPAIN - Spanish logistics markets are expanding as urban sectoral growth continues at above the national average, according to a Savills report on the country’s warehousing market.
