Real Estate – Page 113
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Germany: Deutsche says ageing to hit property
GERMANY – Germany’s investment products must diversify more strongly across regions and property categories, says Deutsche Bank.
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Euro boost for European pooled property funds
EUROPE – The euro has had a positive impact on cross-border investing in European pooled property funds, according to IPD and ABN Amro.
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Nationwide fund drops Schroders as main manager
UK – Schroder Investment Management has been dropped as the main fund manager for the 850 million-pound (1.22 billion-euro) pension fund of Nationwide Building Society as a result of poor performance.
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Inflows to German investment funds halve
GERMANY – Investments into German investment funds dropped by half in August to 1.6 billion euros, according to the latest data from the BVI, Bundesverband Investment und Asset Management.
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Aberdeen Asset Management sells AVI
UK – Aberdeen Asset Management has decided to sell its Asset Value Investors subsidiary to its management.
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Aberdeen’s property arm names new Europe head
UK – Aberdeen Property Investors has appointed Paul Aggett to oversee its Nordic, UK and continental European divisions - essentially taking the role of chairman Iain Reid.
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Serbia to raise retirement age by five years
SERBIA – Serbia says it plans to raise the minimum retirement age by five years from the current “in a phased manner”.
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Surrey scheme considers core-satellite approach
UK – Surrey County Council’s 950 million-pound (1.35 billion-euro) pension fund is reviewing the services and management of the scheme, and is considering a series of mandates.
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Corporate pension funds seen eyeing hedge funds
EUROPE – Corporate pension funds are changing their thinking about hedge funds, prompted by pension obligations being treated as debt, according to a new report by Morgan Stanley.
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ING targets pension funds with property fund
UK - ING Real Estate Investment Management is targeting pension funds with a new property fund of funds.
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Speculation over HVB asset management arm
GERMANY – HVB’s chief executive Dieter Rampl has re-iterated that the group is to focus on distribution – fuelling talk that its asset management arm may be sold.
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PGGM spends E30m to hedge against inflation
NETHERLANDS – The 48 billion-euro Dutch healthcare pension fund PGGM has spent 30 million euros to hedge its pension commitments against inflation.
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Westside story
Direct or indirect? Perhaps not as lofty a question as Hamlet’s “To be or not to be?” but decision makers at US pension plans, endowments and foundations face serious choices in making real estate allocations between indirect investment vehicles and traditional direct investments. A few members of the Pension Real ...
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Mainstream or not?
The poor performance of major equity markets in recent years and falling bond yields have encouraged greater focus on so-called ‘alternative assets’. Commercial property investment is often conveniently placed in this category, along with private equity and hedge funds. But is such a classification helpful or meaningful? The term ‘alternative’ ...
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How investors play the markets
With the dire performance of equities over the last few years universally-acknowledged, is it time to consider alternative assets more carefully? This article briefly examines the composition of European property markets, the returns delivered by these investments, and investors’ recent allocation decisions within the property sector. It concludes with a ...
