All articles by Shayla Walmsley – Page 49
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INREV data 'will make fees more transparent'
EUROPE - New guidelines have been published which are expected to increase the transparency of management fees for private property funds.
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UK hotel buy bucks prime trend
UK - Deutsche Bank real estate subsidiary RREEF has bucked a trend towards international prime hotel acquisition by acquiring the Four Pillars Hotel Group, which has five mid-sector assets in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
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IPD reveals global property outshone Europe
GLOBAL - Global real estate performed well last year, according to IPD figures published, delivering returns only slightly down on their 2005 peak.
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MagazineTwo cheers for the Europhiles
We see a refocus on Europe-specific markets; investors show a preference for German commercial; Belgium makes a blip on the radar, and Asia’s further interest is shown in strategic potential
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MagazinePay dispute
A recent study of executive remuneration at UK property companies shows a limited link between pay and performance, Shayla Walmsley reports
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F&C property trust to decide whether to quit
UK - Negative investor sentiment towards UK property has driven the F&C Commercial Property trust to convene an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) to decide on its own future.
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REITs ‘waiting for long-term investors’
UK - Critics of the poor performance of UK REITs since their launch in January are failing to understand they’re a long-term investment, according to Dave Butler, programme coordinator at UK-based campaigning group REITA.
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Pension funds to bankroll public projects
GLOBAL - Governments will compete to harness private sector infrastructure investment over the next decade, according to a report published by Ernst & Young.
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Investors turn to active management
EUROPE - Investors will increasingly opt for active management as “indiscriminate yield compression” in Europe ends, according to Aberdeen Property Investors.
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MagazineAll abroad
Continental European real estate offers a natural second home for UK money scouting for real estate to invest in. But with continental Europe following the same trend, some UK funds are opting to go global. Shayla Walmsley reports
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MagazineGo boldly, tread carefully
The question for pension funds is not whether but how to invest in Chinese real estate, as Shayla Walmsley reports
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Slack debt deals undermine 'safe' infrastructure - S&P
GLOBAL - Infrastructure investors could find themselves saddled with underperforming assets and the banks that funded them with “paralysed” debt, according to a report published by ratings agency Standard & Poor’s.
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Finland remains 'Nordic property capital'
FINLAND - Finnish real estate still offers pension funds credible property investment opportunities despite the small size of the market, according to Aberdeen fund manager Pertti Verhanen.
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Futures present for listed property
FRANCE - Launch of two European futures contracts on the Paris derivatives market will give investors “cost-effective, simple and efficient” exposure to listed property, according to Liffe, Euronext’s London-based derivatives business.
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Canada pension fund targets Kiwi airport
CANADA - The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is bidding for a 49% stake in the Auckland International Airport (AIAL) group, as part of a strategy to target long-term holdings in infrastructure assets.
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EU institutions drive Brussels boost
BELGIUM - Brussels is the new Berlin, International Real Estate (IRE) indicated when it announced a sharper focus on value-added opportunities in Brussels real estate.
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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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UK schemes wake up to residential
UK - UK pension funds need to catch up with their continental counterparts and ditch outmoded perceptions of domestic residential, according to Quinton Hill-Lines, managing director of fund management at Grainger.
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UK property investors divest €8bn
UK - Institutional investors continued the exodus out of the UK domestic market in the first half of 2007, and became net sellers with divestments worth €8.7bn.
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Schroder hires ABP’s Bingen
EUROPE - Former ABP portfolio manager Rob Bingen will join Schroder Property in October as head of its €2.2bn European property multi-manager operation.
