All articles by Shayla Walmsley – Page 24
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Pension funds invest £200m in M&G social housing debt fund
Fund to target minimum 30-year return of 2% above retail prices index.
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Pramerica targets value-added property in Paris hotel joint venture
Company pays €30m for first two assets in fund set up to exploit 'fragmented' market.
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Investors willing to accept 'aligned' FoF performance fees
INREV survey finds closed-end fund-of-funds have highest fees, while core funds prefer NAV fees.
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NAPF backs UK government infrastructure plan as CIC signals interest
Chinese sovereign wealth fund expresses interest in expansion into western infrastructure.
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Pension funds 'will not invest in water in medium term'
Paper urges separation of utility, infrastructure investments to attract institutional interest.
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Swiss pension funds 'will go global' over fears of domestic bubble
Credit Suisse says that while risk in domestic market low, economic centres risk bubble.
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UK residential sector to follow UNITE model – Grainger
Fund manager predicts rented residential to claim 30% of London market within five years.
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AnalysisNews analysis: Is it time for pension funds to ditch benchmarks?
Should property benchmarks be the cornerstone of investment or viewed with scepticism?
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Eastward bound
Keen pricing in the west and debt crises in the south helped propel investor capital towards Poland and Czech Republic. But are investors willing to explore the CEE regions further? Shayla Walmsley reports
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Clear and present danger
Are pension funds underestimating their exposure to political risk when investing in infrastructure? Shayla Walmsley reports
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Battling the currents
Boutique firms are facing the triple whammy of constrained capital markets, burdensome regulation and larger acquisitive firms. Are the odds stacked against their survival? Shayla Walmsley reports
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Survival of the smallest
Can boutique real estate managers thrive in the current environment? Shayla Walmsley asks six industry players
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Real reason why UK funds shun residential
The recent claim by Andrew Chapman, John Lewis pension scheme’s investment manager, that no scheme wanted to be exposed to reputational risks such as tenant evictions, and the solution would be to separate investment and asset management “so we weren’t held responsible in that way”, amounted to a request for ...
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Evolving European sale-and-leaseback market
The European sale-and-leaseback market has another player. FIDAC, the UK-based subsidiary of US REIT Annaly Capital Management, recently announced it had hired Northcliffe’s entire management team for a planned pan-European sale-and-leaseback surge. Citing a potential $4trn (€2.9trn) market, Northcliffe managing partner Alistair Calvert announced the imminent “largest expansion of sale-and-leaseback ...
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The holes in sustainable real estate
Sustainable real estate might stand more chance of becoming mainstream were it not for the absence of an industry-agreed benchmark, woeful inadequacy of data and perennial disagreement over who will pay for it.
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Consultants take on multi-managers at own game
For an idea of where a business is going, it is always worth looking at new hires. In the past few weeks, Towers Watson took on Peter Lewis as head of its US real estate investment manager research team, while Mercer hired Matthew Abbott as a senior researcher in the ...
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The time has come for German listed property
The European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA) is determined to shake up the status quo in Germany, which has long been dominated by the unlisted, open-ended funds sector.
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CITIC wins cornerstone investor for China second-city strategy
Hong Kong-based asset manager confirms Townsend Group as investor in first closing of fund.
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Pre-crisis property fund structures 'no longer fit for purpose' – PwC
Consultancy says funds designed for specific kinds of investors will emerge with market recovery.
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Investors, occupiers 'out of sync' on UK logistics, says IPD
Investors more 'in sync' with occupiers in appetite for prime versus secondary assets.
