Real Estate – Page 115
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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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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 ...
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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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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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AP4 not satisfied with performance vs. benchmark
SWEDEN – The fourth national pension fund Fjarde AP-fonden, or AP4, says its performance against its benchmark in the first half of the year was “unsatisfactory”.
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UK public sees property providing pensions
UK – Around 40% of the British public say their residential property investment will provide them with an income in retirement, according to a new report. This view is most entrenched among younger people.
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Credit Suisse AM sees asset-allocation role
EUROPE – Institutional investors will increasingly seek asset-allocation advice from their fund managers rather than from their consultant, believes Credit Suisse Asset Management.
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Institutions lift German spezialfonds investment
GERMANY – Institutional investment into German spezialfonds increased in the second quarter of 2003, according to new statistics from the BVI Bundesverband Investment and Asset Management.
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Blue Sky Group backs new Kempen property fund
NETHERLANDS – Blue Sky Group, the manager of the pension assets of Dutch airline KLM, has been the first to sign up to Kempen Capital Management’s European real estate fund.
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Jones Lang LaSalle Europe chief to retire
EUROPE – The European chairman of property firm Jones Lang LaSalle, Robin Broadhurst, is to retire following a decline in revenues in the region.
