All articles by Shayla Walmsley – Page 40
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MagazineInside job
Pension funds are losing property talent to fund managers. But will pay promises be enough to keep them? Shayla Walmsley finds out
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Into Africa
Where to invest in the Maghreb? Hospitality leads the way but opacity and government restrictions limit scope.
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MagazineReturn to reason
The correction in European secondary hides sector and market exceptions to the ‘flight to quality’.
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Come together
Pension fund posses are a familiar idea for those seeking bigger, better deals in unfamiliar markets. Now the consortia are getting more adventurous.
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MagazinePool position
The SICAV is a reassuringly credible structure for risk-cautious pension funds. But the Luxembourg SICAV faces competition from an ambitious Belgian alternative.
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Germans top poll of European property optimism
GERMANY - German investors have topped a three-market poll of European investor sentiment.
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‘Reform planning process or face blackout’
UK - Opposition to planning reforms threatens to squeeze private-sector investment out of UK infrastructure, according to employers’ body the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).
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Choose carefully, says SEB, after UK re-entry
UK/GERMANY - Investors are investing cautiously in UK logistics as they wait for the market to fall further, according to SEB, the German fund management arm of the Swedish bank.
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German firms hide risk in partial disclosure
GERMANY - Two-thirds of listed German property companies are more opaque – and therefore riskier – than their reports suggests.
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ING hires despite talent shortage
NETHERLANDS/ASIA - ING has appointed a regional veteran to head its Asian fund management operations against growing international competition for regional talent.
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Gdansk hosts Poland’s first PPP
POLAND - The regeneration of Gdansk shipyards – the iconic launch site of Lech Wałęsa’s anti-Communist Solidarity movement in the early 1980s – is to be Poland’s first full private-public partnership.
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SWFs avoid infrastructure, opt for funds
GLOBAL - Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) will shy away from direct investment in global infrastructure to avoid allegations of ‘political’ investment, according to analysts at the McKinsey Global Institute, an economics thinktank.
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Property funds target Italian market, investors
ITALY - LaSalle Investment Management last week opened an office in Milan under former Redevco chief acquisitions officer Francesco Coviello.
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Developer bags ABP for European reach
NETHERLANDS - APG, the investment arm of ABP, has acquired a 5.77% shareholding in French shopping centre developer Altarea.
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MagazineAmbitious players seek guidance
Asian investors are mopping up assets coveted by European pension funds – and blazing a trail in markets some would consider uninvestable. And they're keen to learn, as Shayla Walmsley reports
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Managers avoid dance with pension fund pests (amended)
GLOBAL - Smaller European pension funds are finding themselves marginalised by property fund managers tired of their requests for special terms, according to a US fund-of-funds manager.
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US-based PE funds struggle after record inflows
UNITED STATES - Investors are abandoning smaller US private equity property funds, and opting instead to commit capital to “megafunds” to avoid navigating a saturated market.
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'Goodnight Europe', as RoW dominates returns ranking
GLOBAL - Europe accounted for only one of the world’s top five-returning property markets, according to the IPD Global Index launched last week.
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East Capital goes it alone in Baltics
BALTIC STATES - Fund manager East Capital has taken sole control of a joint venture set up to manage its Baltic property funds and expressed optimism for their performance despite an economic downturn in their target markets.
