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Foncia acquisitions drive growth
REAL ESTATE - French property firm Foncia says it is already close to reaching its 15% growth target for 2006 thanks to an aggressive acquisition strategy that has seen it swallow up smaller French rivals. The residential real estate manager post...
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ING Real Estate names Central Europe MD
REAL ESTATE - ING Real Estate has appointed Martin Sabelko as managing director of its Central Europe investment management business five months after his predecessor quit the job. Sabelko will be responsible for local management of the ING Prope...
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UBS Asia real estate chief joins Goldman
REAL ESTATE – Goldman Sachs has hired Michael Smith, head of real estate in Asia at UBS, for its Singapore office. It’s also taken on Vincent Peng, head of UBS's corporate investment group for Singapore's Government of Singapore Inves...
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Townsend gets larger role at Ohio fund
REAL ESTATE - The $10.6bn Ohio Police & Fire Pension Fund has decided to let its real estate consultant, Cleveland-based the Townsend Group, to work with its separate account real estate managers. In the past, the pension fund had its senior r...
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Deutsche write-down lower than estimated
REAL ESTATE – DB Real Estate, the property fund arm of Deutsche Bank, has re-opened its core German real estate fund following a write-down of its holdings which, at €147m, was lower than previously estimated. Following the surprise cl...
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CalSTRS to expand apartment venture
REAL ESTATE – The California State Teachers Retirement System has expanded an existing joint venture with BlackRock Realty to invest in apartments that will have a total capitalization of $1.2bn (€1bn). There is a total of $420m of equ...
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Stouthamer’s Composition opens HK office
REAL ESTATE – Erwin Stouthamer’s Composition Capital Partners has opened a regional office in Hong Kong. The office would deal with local partners and scout out new investment opportunities for its Asia private real estate fund of fund...
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Ilmarinen wary of real estate price rises
REAL ESTATE - Economic growth could prove just as big a risk to real estate investors as slowdown, according to Finnish pension fund Ilmarinen. Against a buoyant Finnish economy, year-end results revealed that Ilmarinen’s €2.1bn real e...
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Ontario fund to raise real estate allocation
REAL ESTATE – OMERS, the C$41.1bn (€30.0bn) Ontario Municipal Employees’ Retirement System, is to raise its real estate allocation to 12.5% from the current 8.1%. It comes amid a plan to raise its allocation to real estate, priva...
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Firms selling property to pay for pensions
REAL ESTATE - Two of Britain’s most high-profile firms are to plug pension fund deficits with property assets. BAE Systems says it plans to help plug its £2.4bn (€3.5bn) main pension fund deficit with £240m in property asset...
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Corio in court action over Italy deal
REAL ESTATE - Retail property management firm Corio has filed suit for €46.8m against Italy’s Barletta Group over the 2003 turnkey acquisition of Campania shopping centre outside Naples. Corio claims the company has failed to comply w...
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BNP Paribas reduces Klepierre holding
REAL ESTATE - BNP Paribas has played down its decision to sell part of its share in French property firm Klepierre. A spokeswoman for the bank described the decision to reduce its shareholding from above 53% to below 51% as “not a significa...
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Alaska fund to buy into Simpson Housing
REAL ESTATE - The Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation is to acquire a 50% interest in Simpson Housing Corporation which is currently held by the State of Michigan Retirement System. The transaction is set to close by the end of March. The size of ...
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Marks & Spencer ‘could get REIT boost’
REAL ESTATE - Marks & Spencer could increase its share price by almost 80p to 580p if it places its property portfolio in a REIT, investment bank Morgan Stanley says. A research note issued by the bank’s real estate desk, anticipating th...
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Unite embroiled in student debt row
REAL ESTATE - Unite, which develops and manages student accommodation in the UK, has become embroiled in a row over student debt after extending contract terms. The firm is to extend mandatory contract terms for students in its Birmingham property...
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Texas Teachers starts €2.4bn real estate move
REAL ESTATE - The $96bn Teacher’s Retirement System of Texas has started its process of investing 3% or $2.88bn (€2.4bn) of its total assets in real estate. Its initial investment was a $100m allocation into the BlackRock Diamond Fund
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Swiss funds urged to up real estate
REAL ESTATE - Credit Suisse has urged Swiss pension funds to increase their real estate holdings to 20-30% – but the Zurich-based bank’s own corporate pension fund says it has no intention of doing so.
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UK schemes warm to real estate - Watson
REAL ESTATE - It’s taken them five years but UK pension funds are at last warming to real estate in a bid to diversify away from equities, according to research conducted by Watson Wyatt Investment Consulting into its clients’ approach to...
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CalSTRS creates value-added apartment fund
REAL ESTATE - The California State Teachers Retirement System has established a $1bn apartment fund to invest in value-added transactions. The Waterton Residential Property Fund IX will be run through Chicago-based Waterton Associates LLC. There...
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CalPERS to build industrials in Europe
REAL ESTATE - The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) is to invest between $200 million and $400m in a joint venture to develop industrial properties in Europe. Portfolio manager Jose McNeill said: "We think that this ki...
