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Irish pension fund sells retail stores
IRELAND – The Irish Property Unit Trust is selling some of its retail investments in Cork and Limerick, as well as an office block in Dublin, to finance its stake in a new Cork retail property project.
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Pension funds give euro focus to Goodman
EUROPE – Asset management firm Goodman Property Investors has picked up a series of new European real estate mandates from pension funds in recent months, the latest of which is from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
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Lothian pension tenders its real estate
UK – Lothian pension fund is reviewing its real estate investment manager and searching for a firm to handle the fund’s asset allocation.
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US pensions follow Mexican residential trail
UNITED STATES - More pension fund capital is being ploughed into the Mexican real estate market and heading for retail and ‘single family home’ developments, according to property investment firm ING Clarion.
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ECP to extend retail centres
EUROPE - The €2.2bn investor EuroCommercial Properties is increasingly focusing on extending its existing centres to improve its competitive position in a pressured property markets.
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North Dakota State shifts core capital to value-added
UNITED STATES - North Dakota State Investment Board has decided to move a portion of its capital originally invested in core real estate and move it into the value-added real estate bucket.
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Carrefour to spin off property
FRANCE - French retailer Carrefour is to offer 20% of its €24bn property portfolio to “strategic institutional real estate partners” and other investors, including pension funds.
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Corio to divest office and industrial portfolios
EUROPE - The €6bn property investment company Corio has decided to explore the divestment of a major part of its offices and industrial portfolios, and to further focus on its retail activities.
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Unibail-Rodamco prepares post-merger management
NETHERLANDS - Unibail-Rodamco is almost ready to announce its top 50 management structure as its integration efforts are now on track, the €23.9bn property investor has said.
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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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MagazineEurope’s rising giant: Istanbul
Exciting demographics have propelled Turkey up the league of investment appeal in spite of a shortage of stock and nagging political uncertainties, as Paul Strohm discovers
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MagazineRetail delight
Neville Moss looks at the emerging shopping centre market in Istanbul where exceptional fundamentals present a solid long-term outlook
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MagazineWhat’s bred in the bone
Hard’ factors such as regulation and liquidity only partly define the contours of real estate markets. The cultural stuff can be harder to negotiate. Shayla Walmsley reports
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MagazineTaking on primary importance
As Asia’s major centres struggle to meet the surge in investor demand the focus is moving to a vast tier of lesser ‘secondary’ giants where huge potential combines with significant challenges. Paul Benjamin reports
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MagazineSitting on a tax break
SICAVs have long been the investible UCITs structure of choice for property fund managers. Now some pension funds are finding a new use for them. Shayla Walmsley reports
