North American investors – Page 222
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TIAA-CREF sales push draws Alaska hire
UNITED STATES - TIAA-CREF Asset Management has signaled plans for a major institutional business drive with the expansion of its sales team and three key appointments.
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Low returns fail to deter core pension fund investors
UNITED STATES – Some US pension funds are still willing to invest a portion of their capital in core real estate despite returns being at an all-time low, according to consultants Townsend Group.
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Ohio PERS to sell $1bn in real estate
UNITED STATES – Strong interest in real estate acquisitions has promoted Ohio Public Employees Retirement System to spend the remainder of 2007 working on the sale of $1bn (€741.2m) in real estate assets.
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CalPERS to rest capital in global hotels
UNITED STATES – California Public Employees Retirement System is planning to tap into the tourism trade next year with the development of a global hotel investment platform.
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CalPERS considers major real estate emigration
UNITED STATES – The California Public Employees Retirement System is thinking of expanding overseas and moving its international real estate allocation from its current 20% level to a 50% weighting.
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Oregon PERF to increase real estate presence
UNITED STATES - Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund has moved its targeted allocation for real estate from 8% to 11%, giving the pension fund an extra $1.8bn (€1.3bn) of new capital to invest.
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More US pension fund capital heads for global REITs
UNITED STATES - Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board and Wisconsin State Investment Board have become the latest pension funds in the United States to plan a global REIT strategy.
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Illinois Teachers schools overseas growth
UNITED STATES - Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois is close to reaching its international real estate allocation as the fund has now approved a further three investments totaling $250m (€184m) into commingled funds.
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MagazineThe long and short of it
REITs have very specific characteristics that place them in a class apart from other forms of real estate investing, as Steve Smith explains
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MagazineSub-prime wake-up call instils discipline
A strong real estate market and a tightening of loan criteria have brought new optimism, coupled with new conservatism, Stephanie Schwartz-Driver finds
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MagazineMarket view: fundamentally speaking
To obtain their exposure to real estate, Australian pension funds prefer listed property securities. In fact, just under three-quarters of all real estate exposure by Australian pension funds is obtained by investing in real estate investment trusts (REITs) or listed property companies.
