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Aviva signs new real estate finance chief
UK – Aviva Investors has announced the appointment of Marcus Shepherd as the company’s new real estate finance director.
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Prologis loses chief and halts new developments
GLOBAL – ProLogis, the world’s largest logistics developer, has announced the resignation of chief executive officer Jeffrey Schwartz at a time when the company is halting further developments.
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Tennessee Consolidated extends manager relations
UNITED STATES - Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System is beefing up the range of separate account real estate managers it invests with.
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CalSTRS to stick with changing First Industrial
UNITED STATES - California State Teachers Retirement System anticipates its relationship with First Industrial Realty Trust will not be affected by a major change in the firm’s upper management.
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Apollo plans a rebrand
GLOBAL – Apollo Real Estate Advisors, the global firm with $11.6bn of equity commitments to investments worldwide, is changing its name to AREA Property Partners from the beginning of next year.
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Townsend retains its job in San Diego
UNITED STATES - San Diego City Employees’ Retirement System has chosen to retain The Townsend Group remain as its real estate consultant.
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Mass PRIM makes additions in real estate
UNITED STATES - Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board has selected a new real estate consultant and added an office building to its real estate portfolio.
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Laxton to head UK charge of Cushman & Wakefield
UK - Cushman & Wakefield, the global real estate consultants and investment firm, has appointed Bryan Laxton as chief executive officer of its UK business from January 2009.
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Dallas Police & Fire helps fund retail venture
UNITED STATES - Dallas Police & Fire Pension System is the capital source behind a global capital relationship with its real estate manager CDK Realty Advisors and RED Development, which will invest in retail property.
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Fortis recruits for real estate amid its turmoil
NETHERLANDS - Raymond Satumalay, formerly investment manager at Bouwfonds Asset Management, is joining Fortis Vastgoed Vermogensbeheer, the real estate division of Fortis Insurance Netherlands, as its managing director of fund management.
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ING Clarion takes its talent to Brazil
UNITED STATES - ING Clarion Partners is tapping its in-house investment expertise and opening a regional investment office in Brazil for the first time.
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Felix turns off the road and into Aviva
UNITED STATES – Steve Felix, well-known in the pensions and institutional real estate market, is leaving his full-time writing behind and joining Aviva Investors to become head of marketing for its North American real estate multi-manager products.
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Union seeks growth through Axa CEO
GERMANY - Hamburg-based investment management firm Union Investment Real Estate (Union) has appointed Karl-Joseph Hermanns-Engel to its management board with specific responsibility for the €14bn firm’s international asset management operations.
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CalPERS appoints infrastructure manager
UNITED STATES - California Public Employees Retirement System has hired Randall Mullan as its senior portfolio manager for infrastructure investments.
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Three out of four funds stand firm to real estate
UK – Three-quarters of UK pension funds are either maintaining or increasing their current level of exposure to real estate despite the recent turmoil in their domestic commercial property market.
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Knight Frank expands Middle East operations
MIDDLE EAST - London-based global real estate management and advisory firm Knight Frank has extended its global network by opening a office in Bahrain to cover the burgeoning Middle Eastern property market.
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MEAG appoints new managing director for real estate
GERMANY - Munich Ergo Asset Management (MEAG) has appointed Günter Manuel Giehr as head of its global real estate operations.
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IVG and Metzler lose their heads
GERMANY – German real estate company IVG will have to look for a new chief executive as Wolfhard Leichnitz is leaving the company at the end of September.
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CalSTRS creates emerging manager real estate programme
UNITED STATES - California State Teachers Retirement System is developing an emerging manager strategy in real estate for the first time.
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Illinois State Universities begins fresh real estate searches
UNITED STATES - State Universities Retirement System of Illinois has approved new manager searches for real estate and infrastructure, in a bid to achieve higher returns than available in equities and bonds.
