All Real Assets articles in October 2009 (Online) – Page 2
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NewsUSS disposes of industrial space
UK – The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) has sold 11 industrial assets from its recently acquired Equiton portfolio to Scottish Widows Investment Partnership Property (SWIP) Trust.
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NewsAberdeen pension fund goes shopping in East Anglia
UK – Aberdeen Property Investors has purchased five retail units in the UK on behalf of the Aberdeen City Council Pension Fund.
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NewsBBC pension fund moves out of London’s Regent Street
UK – CB Richard Ellis Investors has confirmed the sale of Mutual House, owned by the pension scheme of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), for £30m (€32.1m), reflecting a yield of 5.4%.
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NewsTesco continues property deals with pension funds
UK – Tesco has formed a fourth joint venture with a UK pension fund to sell and leaseback property assets, in an effort to release value from its property portfolio.
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NewsHeitman buys into shopping venture
UNITED STATES – Heitman, the real estate asset manager, has formed a joint venture with Macerich, the US shopping centre owner, and bought a major stake in two US regional shopping centres.
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NewsGE pension fund caught up in real estate loan battle
FRANCE – Creditors of Paris office complex Coeur Défense may appeal a court ruling which forced them to extend a securitised €1.5bn loan to the property’s joint owners, one of which is a General Electric pension fund.
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NewsCalEast CEO resigns
UNITED STATES - Russ Blackwell, chief executive of CalEast Global Logistics, has resigned as head of the company but is staying on with the company until the end of the year.
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NewsInvesco predicts equity/property correlation will lessen
GLOBAL – Real estate will go back to offering full diversification effects, having lost some of its credibility as a decorrelated asset class, research from Invesco has predicted.
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NewsUSS snaps another high street bargain
UK – The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) has made another retail acquisition in the UK, taking its total UK real estate investment in 2009 to £300m (€327m).
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NewsINREV’s van Doorn returns to ING roots
EUROPE – Lisette van Doorn is leaving the European Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles (INREV) to rejoin ING Real Estate Investment Management.
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NewsSWIP re-enters European retail property
EUROPE – Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) has signalled its intention to re-enter the continental European real estate market with the launch of retail fund run in partnership with Cushman & Wakefield Investors (CWI).
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NewsOregon tops up distressed debt real estate holdings
US – Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund has demonstrated its ongoing commitment to Lone Star Funds by committing a further $400m (€273.6m) of capital to the distressed real estate debt specialist.
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NewsSan Bernardino County turns to European debt
UNITED STATES - San Bernardino County Employees Retirement Association is planning to invest a total of €60m (€41m) the Apollo European Principle Finance Fund, although at least $20m of those assets are being as co-investments to specific transactions.
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