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    Oregon PERF investment sees new forays

    2007-12-17T17:49:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund has agreed to invest $150m (€102.6m) into commingled funds focused on Asia and urban strategies.

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    Illinois Teachers allocates office space

    2007-12-17T17:46:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Teacher Retirement System of the State of Illinois has approved two real estate investments totaling $187.5m (€127.4m) which contribute to the acquisition of office space.

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    CalSTRS and ING Clarion set up value-added JV

    2007-12-10T17:17:00Z

    UNITED STATES - California State Teachers Retirement System and ING Clarion Partners have created a value-added investment joint venture called INGCal Tactical.

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    Harrison Street pairs up for medical offices

    2007-12-10T17:14:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Harrison Street Real Estate Capital has formed a joint venture with Montecito Medical Investment Company to buy ownership of medical office buildings.

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    ABP advised to sell Corio

    2007-12-03T17:03:00Z

    NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension fund ABP should sell its 37% share in Corio to one of the developers circling the Dutch real estate firm, according to sector analysts.

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    Pension fund JV acquires €200m office

    2007-12-03T17:01:00Z

    GERMANY - A three-way German office partnership involving ABP and ATP Ejendomme, the real estate subsidiary of the €49.6bn Danish pension scheme, has invested almost a third of its target capital with the €200m acquisition of two nationwide portfolios.

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    MacFarlane raises $1bn for urban investment

    2007-12-03T16:19:00Z

    UNITED STATES - MacFarlane Partners has raised $1bn (€683.6m) for Urban Real Estate Fund II, making this one of the largest urban commingled funds ever to be created in the United States.

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    Corio to divest office and industrial portfolios

    2007-11-26T12:30:00Z

    NETHERLANDS - The €6bn property investment and management company Corio has decided to go ahead with divesting the major part of its offices and industrial portfolios, and to further focus on its retail activities.

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    CalPERS commits $250m to int'l opportunity

    2007-11-19T17:10:00Z

    UNITED STATES - California Public Employees Retirement System has approved a $250m (€171.1m) commitment into the Rockpoint Real Estate Fund III which is currently only holding investments in Japan.

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    Pension funds "could power Reits growth"

    2007-11-12T17:15:00Z

    UK – Assets held by the UK Reits market could double over the next few years if investors such as pension funds sold their real estate assets to the listed market, according to First State Investments.

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    Alternative investments to carry more weight - ING

    2007-11-12T17:00:00Z

    UK - Alternatives sectors are likely to register more on the agenda as UK pension funds seek to gain more exposure to real estate assets, according to ING Real Estate Investment Management.

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    UK property delivers negative return

    2007-11-05T17:54:00Z

    UK - Real estate delivered a negative return of 1.1% in Q3, according to the IPD UK Quarterly Index – the first in its history – but real estate still outperformed property equities, which had a negative return of –10.3% for the three months to September.

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    Quebec pension fund to invest in India office

    2007-11-05T17:52:00Z

    INDIA - The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, Canada’s largest pension fund, is weeks away from its entry into Indian property as part of a strategy to switch 15% of its portfolio to Indian real estate within 3—5 years.

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    BA supports pensions flight with office block

    2007-11-05T17:51:00Z

    UK – Pension fund of the airline British Airways has bought a recently-completed office development in Birmingham city centre, in a bid to help diversify its asset allocation.

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    Macro growth boosts Nordic retail

    2007-10-29T17:30:00Z

    NORDICS - Pension funds have an irrational attachment to office real estate when they should be looking to outperforming retail, according to fund manager Cordea Savills.

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    Oslo property market is ‘the new Helsinki’

    2007-10-22T17:15:00Z

    NORWAY – Europe is good but Norway is better, according to a property market report published by Close, the independent merchant bank.

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    US pension fund capital heads back to core

    2007-10-22T17:05:00Z

    UNITED STATES - Some pension fund capital in the United States is flowing against the tide and being reallocated to a core investment strategy.

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    CPP Investment Board buys Denver office space

    2007-10-15T12:00:00Z

    UNITED STATES - CPP Investment Board has made its first acquisition in the Denver office market through a joint venture with Callahan Capital Partners.

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    SBB sells 9,800m2 to fund pensions

    2007-10-08T17:45:00Z

    SWITZERLAND - The Swiss federal railways SBB has sold another one of its real estate holdings under its funding promise to the SBB pension fund.