All articles by Shayla Walmsley – Page 39
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INREV index posts recovery figures: UK leads
EUROPE – European non-listed funds returned a negative -7.8% in 2009, compared with -19.8% the previous year, according to the INREV Index of 258 funds representing assets worth €132.7bn.
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MagazinePerformance anxiety
If fund managers can’t agree how to measure property performance, what hope is there for pension funds? Shayla Walmsley investigates
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MagazineShoppers choose to touch and feel
For the best part of a decade doomsters have been predicting the end of shopping as we know it. Someone forgot to tell shoppers, says Shayla Walmsley
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Join the club
From next year property industry associations in Asia and Europe will begin recruiting pension fund members. But why should they join? Shayla Walmsley reports
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MagazineNo time for newcomers
Stable, capable and credible: the crisis has not changed investor demands on fund managers significantly. Funds are upping the ante – newcomers will have to fight for a share of the cash. Shayla Walmsley reports
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MagazineParting of the ways
The shift away from listed points to a variation of views regarding real estate’s role in the portfolio, as Shayla Walmsley reports
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Time to refocus
Belgian investors play safe. Now the priority is to de-risk and rebalance, says Shayla Walmsley
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Pass the Duchy – but stop for a SICAV
New funds are opting for the Luxembourg SICAV structure to source scarce liquidity Shayla Walmsley reports
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MagazineToo much, too little, too late?
Fees designed for a seller’s market have survived into a buyer’s one. So are the old structures still working – and, if they aren’t, what are pension funds going to do about it? Shayla Walmsley reports
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MagazineGet a grip
Ditch debt and downgrade return expectations – then focus on tomorrow’s problems. Industry leaders tell Shayla Walmsley what we should learn from the current crisis
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Exit right
Managers with funds due for termination are choosing to extend rather than liquidate. But are investors happy to tie up their equity for longer in the hope that the market will improve? Shayla Walmsley reports
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MagazineBeyond the Square Mile
Investors claim to be peering at the bottom of the London property market. Some are already looking for sane prices for sparse assets – and they include pension funds as well as opportunists. Shayla Walmsley reports
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MagazineTake us to your leaders
This time last year protectionists were slating opaque sovereign wealth funds’ designs on ‘strategic’ infrastructure. Now the question is whether they can still woo these super-liquid investors into pricey property markets. Shayla Walmsley reports
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Flight risk
Economic crisis has not changed pension scheme approaches to risk, but it has increased property portfolio managers’ scrutiny of funds’ risk controls, Shayla Walmsley finds
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MagazineMarket wrongs and EU REITs
Is it time to give up on a pan-European REIT? Shayla Walmsley considers the arguments
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MagazineThe ‘raspberry ripple’ effect
There is no shortage of pension schemes looking to invest in infrastructure, so where are the funds to meet the demand? Shayla Walmsley investigates
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MagazineLook and learn
Working alongside fund managers allows pension schemes to build up in-house infrastructure expertise, APG’s Robbert Coomans tells Shayla Walmsley
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Close to home
‘We can’t buy an airport,’ KBC’s Edwin Meysmans tells Shayla Walmsley. It seems European infrastructure funds are the next best thing
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MagazineThe pension funds’ dilemma
Pension funds were recently accused of making such excessive demands on fund managers that they effectively talked themselves to the back of the queue. Should they be bargaining at all – and, if they should, is it every scheme for itself?
