Real Estate – Page 76

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    LA Fire & Police to invest in pooled real estate

    2006-08-25T16:00:57Z

    REAL ESTATE – The $13.6bn Los Angeles Fire & Police Pension System has approved an investment in a commingled fund and signed off on some emerging manager guidelines.

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    Dutch institutional real estate reaches €29bn

    2006-08-24T15:35:51Z

    NETHERLANDS – Dutch institutions’ investment in the real estate sector have surged to €29bn, according to De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB).

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    Nottinghamshire scheme makes real estate buy

    2006-08-22T16:04:14Z

    UK – The £1.6bn (€2.6bn) Nottinghamshire County Council Pension Fund has bought an office building in the southern English town of Sutton for £13.33m.

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    BOE scheme takes 6.7% of Henderson property fund

    2006-08-18T16:12:09Z

    REAL ESTATE - The Bank of England’s pension fund has acquired almost 6.7% of Henderson Global Property Investors, the fund manager.

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    ABP’s Puay Ju joins Aberdeen for Asian real estate

    2006-08-18T16:08:05Z

    EUROPE – Kang Puay Ju, senior portfolio manager at Dutch pension fund ABP, will join Aberdeen Asset Management’s real estate arm’s new Asian property fund, the asset manager announced today.

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    CalPERS names bond, real estate managers

    2006-08-15T16:10:00Z

    US – California’s $205bn (€160bn) public pension giant CalPERS has named 16 managers for international fixed income, real estate equities and US global equities.

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    CBRE nabs €1.4bn Electricity Supply property brief

    2006-08-15T11:03:23Z

    REAL ESTATE – The Electricity Supply Pension Scheme has named CBRE Investors to replace F&C Asset Management as manager of its £985 (€1.4bn) core UK property portfolio.

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    UK coal scheme role for British Steel’s Debney

    2006-08-14T15:51:02Z

    UK – LaSalle Investment Management has hired Richard Debney as European director and fund manager for the British Coal Schemes Pension Plan.

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    ING’s assets under management drop €8.9bn

    2006-08-10T15:51:42Z

    GLOBAL – ING lost a total €8.9bn of assets under management in the second quarter – “shaved” by market declines and currency movements.

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    Ex-Mn Services’ Dijkhuis sets up own firm

    2006-08-08T15:54:49Z

    NETHERLANDS - Jan-Willem Dijkhuis, former director of Dutch real estate investments at asset management firm Mn Services, has set up his own consultancy firm for the financial and real estate sector.

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    ESPS terminates €1.48bn F&C real estate brief

    2006-08-07T12:39:18Z

    UK – The €27bn Electricity Supply Pension Scheme has terminated its £1bn (€1.48bn) real estate mandate with F&C, the asset manager says.

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    PGGM’s Muller joins Bouwfonds Asset Management

    2006-08-01T16:01:21Z

    NETHERLANDS - Léon Muller, senior portfolio strategist for real estate at Dutch health care pension fund PGGM, is leaving to join Bouwfonds Asset Management as head of research.

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    Myners joins Land Securities as chairman

    2006-07-26T15:33:30Z

    UK – Paul Myners, the former Gartmore chief who wrote an influential report on institutional investment for the government, is to join real estate firm Land Securities as chairman.

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    ABP in €417m Barcelona hotel deal

    2006-07-26T15:27:37Z

    REAL ESTATE – Dutch civil service pension fund Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP and partners including an affiliate of the Government of Singapore Investment Corp. have agreed to buy the Hotel Arts Barcelona for €417m.

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    IPE-QUEST: Dutch fund tenders Euro real estate

    2006-07-26T13:58:58Z

    NETHERLANDS – A Dutch pension fund has tendered €50m-€60m in pan-European publicly traded European real estate via IPE-Quest.

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    Irish reserve fund posts negative Q2 returns

    2006-07-20T03:46:00Z

    IRELAND – The €16.3bn National Pensions Reserve had a negative investment return of almost 4% in the second quarter of this year – although it was up in the first six months.

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    Bank of Ireland AM re-jigs investment structure

    2006-07-20T03:28:00Z

    IRELAND – The Bank of Ireland Asset Management today announced a new investment business structure with the appointment of three managing directors – including former ABN Amro research head Chris Johns - to take over from outgoing chief investment officer Chris Reilly, who will retire next year.

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    London pension funds shun Olympic Village plan

    2006-07-18T03:56:00Z

    REAL ESTATE - Cash to spend and an eye for the long term make pension funds the ideal investment partners to build the UK’s 2012 Olympic village, according to its real estate advisers – yet pension funds approached by IPE Real Estate indicated little or no interest.

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    DekaBank keeps mum over revenue, staff reports

    2006-07-17T03:20:00Z

    GERMANY – DekaBank, the asset manager tied to Germany’s state-owned savings banks (Sparkassen), has declined comment on press reports that 21 managing directors have been demoted and that it will miss its revenue and profit targets for this year.

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    Blue Sky appoints commercial chief

    2006-07-14T03:22:00Z

    NETHERLANDS - Blue Sky Group, the Dutch pension fund manager which runs the KLM pension fund, has appointed Francis van Bergenhenegouwen as head of commercial affairs.