All Regulation articles – Page 23
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Privatisation of Spanish airports to 'attract' local, foreign pension funds
EISER Infrastructure fund considers local investors familiar with Spanish market.
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French pension funds take dim view of domestic property market
Pensions schemes reducing size of real estate portfolios, shifting investment into equities, bonds.
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Real estate fund industry begins to mobilise against Solvency II
INREV chairman 'confident' regulators will cut 25% capital charge for insurers holding direct property.
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Real estate should benefit from inflation, argues Cambridge's Lizieri
Addressing IP Real Estate's Investor Forum, academic also questions if refinancing should continue.
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Consolidation in real estate not welcomed by investors, finds survey
Survey of investors presented at IP Real Estate Awards finds 62% oppose further consolidation.
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Fraud, fiscal irregularities found at half of Dutch real estate companies
Internal Revenue Service orders 600 real estate companies to pay €330m in fines and back taxes.
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UK commercial property to struggle for 'next seven years'
L&G cites introduction of Basel III and increasing capital requirements as deciding factors.
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IPD research calls for 15% real estate Solvency II threshold
Says findings based on pan-European data, as opposed to real estate value movements in UK.
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Invista highlights European north-south divide
Company predicts south will lag behind north due to slower GDP growth over next five years.
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CFA Institute calls for REIT governance overhaul in Asia
Seeks to minimise conflicts of interest between external management, REIT unit-holders.
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AnalysisAnalysis: The trouble with Germany's open-ended funds
GERMANY – The German government is doing its utmost to rescue the country's open-ended real estate funds from their current liquidity crisis and enable the sector to operate on a sustainable basis.
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EPRA urges property company exemption from derivatives regulations
EUROPE – The European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA) has urged the EU to prevent property companies from getting caught up in derivatives regulations designed to combat speculators.
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Solvency II will lead 75% of European insurers to revise property strategies
EUROPE – Close to three-quarters of European insurance companies will revise their real estate commitments as a result of incoming Solvency II regulations, according to data providers Preqin.
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UK government cuts social housing spending, backs infrastructure
UK – The coalition government in the UK has revealed it will cut funding for social housing projects by £4.4bn (€4.95bn), effectively a 50% drop on the previous government's commitment to spend £8bn between 2008 and 2011.
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INREV prepares for lobbying; Solvency II a 'key priority'
EUROPE – INREV will be taking on the function of lobbying Brussels on behalf of the non-listed real estate industry.
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Former manager at AZL accused of taking bribes
NETHERLANDS – A former employee of pensions provider AZL has been accused of committing property fraud by accepting bribes.
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Germany sets two-year holding period for open real estate funds
GERMANY – The German government has passed new regulations for open real estate funds (OIFs) that will include a minimum two-year holding period.
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Norway Global excludes companies for breaching Geneva Convention
EUROPE – The NOK2.8trn (€352bn) Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) is planning to exclude two Israeli companies and one Malaysian company, worth a combined NOK15m, from its investment universe.
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Law change promotes professionalism for Greek pension funds
GREECE – Provisions in the social security laws passed last month by the Greek government are set to kick-start greater professionalism in managing pension funds' real estate assets, a leading fund manager claimed.
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Withdrawal of open-ended German funds will 'level playing field', says Invesco
EUROPE – Less investment activity on the part of German open-ended funds (GOEFs) would effectively level the playing field for other institutional investors in the European real estate markets, according to Invesco Real Estate.
