Real Estate – Page 6
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Country ReportSwitzerland: Pension funds edge towards alternative investments
Swiss pension funds are cautiously but decisively taking steps to build a portfolio of alternative investments
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Country ReportSwitzerland: Good returns in 2021 provide pension buffer in 2022
Deteriorating economic conditions saw Swiss pension funds return on average -10.7% for the year to end-September
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NewsPrivate equity, mortgages enter net-zero alliance’s protocol in new draft
UN’s investor alliance expands guidance on treatment of sovereign debt in draft of third version of target-setting protocol
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FeaturesMarket overview: German institutional investors manage uncertainty
At mid-year 2022, the volume of Spezialfonds – the German vehicle for professional investors – administered on Universal Investment’s platform was €498bn, a rise of around 5% year on year. On a six-month basis, however, and compared with the end of the booming stock year 2021, asset volumes were down around 3%.
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Denmark’s IPD says pension savers will foot the bill for ‘rushed’ rents cap
Lobby group says real estate sector needs calm if pension firms are to invest, and broad political agreements
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Publica in talks with large pension funds for co-investments in infrastructure
Publica’s board decided to reduce its fixed income allocation as part of its new strategy
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Alecta loses international real assets chief to Heimstaden
Sweden’s biggest pension fund says Heijbel was key part of its work to grow the real assets portfolio
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Poll shows 10 percentage-point rise in ESG use by alternatives investors over 3 years
Two thirds of European investors in private equity, infrastructure, now have climate policies compared to less that a quarter of their US peers, new survey shows
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NewsBorder to Coast commits final investments in first £5.7bn private markets programme
In total, the programme invested into 61 funds and made three co-investments
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BT Pension Scheme unveils 25% carbon reduction targets
Reducing exposure to carbon emissions over time will improve the scheme’s stability and predictability of its investment outcomes
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Special ReportOutlook: Investors grapple with inflation and rising rates
The asset allocation options available to institutional investors in such uncertain times are few
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NewsGerman doctors scheme pushes through with illiquid assets switch
Targetted illiquid investments include real estate, infrastructure, private equity and private debt
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German BVV boosts private debt to finance renewables infra, real estate
The scheme has already reached target allocation for illiquid assets, but will conduct further allocations in the future ‘selectively’
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NewsBVK to continue indirect real estate, stake investments
The fund’s strategic asset allocation for 2022 will see an increase to 28.8% in real estate (24.4% in real estate funds and REITs and 4.5% in direct investments)
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NewsPFA reports 4.3% Q1 loss despite help from inflation hedging, property
Danish pensions giant says rising interest rates hit average-rate segment return, but reduced liabilities
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Mandate roundup: Alstom picks Mercer as fiduciary
Plus: Dutch scheme selects Symbiotics; European schemes search for equities, property managers
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UK pension funds increasingly look into impact investing
Social infrastructure and social and affordable housing are the most popular social impact investments
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London CIV sets 70% target for pooled assets
‘Our big gap in terms of the fund range is property,’ says O’Donnell
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Opinion PiecesNews Notes: Private investing ‘levels up’ playing field
The UK’s recent government white paper – ‘Levelling up the United Kingdom’ – forcefully pushes for private investing. In it, Prime Minister Boris Johnson claims he is determined to “break that link between geography and destiny, so that it makes good business sense for the private sector to invest in areas that have for too long felt left behind”.
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NewsAMF generated 34% equities return amid portfolio restructuring
Blue-collar pension fund reports increase in solvency to 232% from 196%
