Real Estate – Page 88
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Does one size fit all?
Blessed with accessible investments worth around £300bn (e 443.2), the UK property market is Europe’s largest, and is also the continent’s most transparent, liquid and diverse. As a result, the market is often the first choice for cross-border investment and so around 15% of it is held by foreign visitors. ...
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Bullring acquisition
Henderson Global Investors’ UK shopping centre fund has purchased a £130m (e192.3m) stake in Birmingham’s The Bullring from Australian insurer AMP Life. In exchange AMP has taken units in the fund, in order to increase its diversification to the UK shopping centre market. AMP Capital Investors believe there is strong ...
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AMF names new bond head
SWEDEN – Bengt Björkén has been named head of bond management at AMF Pension.
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Cominvest gets new chief executive
GERMANY – Commerzbank has created a new management board for its asset management division and named a new chief executive for German fund arm Cominvest in a bid to revive the division’s sagging fortunes.
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Finland’s Varma names Murto as new CIO
FINLAND - Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Co. has named Risto Murto as chief investment officer, taking over from the retiring Jorma Leinonen.
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Watson Wyatt makes three Dutch hires
NETHERLANDS – Watson Wyatt has hired three new staff for its “rapidly expanding” investment consulting team in the Netherlands.
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APK takes over BMW pension fund in Austria
AUSTRIA – APK, a €2bn pension fund open to all industries in Austria, is to take over administration of the Austrian pension fund of German carmaker BMW from January 2006.
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Sweden consults on traffic-light pension model
SWEDEN – The Swedish financial regulator has launched a consultation on a proposal to identify possible problems at occupational pension funds and life companies using the so-called traffic-light model.
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US-based Principal to open Munich branch
GERMANY – US fixed-income specialist Principal Global Investors plans to open a branch in Munich from January 2006.
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Railpen chief resisting flight to bonds
UK – Chris Hitchen, chief executive of the £15.5bn (€23bn) Railways Pension Trustee Co., Railpen, says that pension schemes’ shift to fixed income was an “overreaction”.
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German fund association BVI names chairman
GERMANY – Fund industry association BVI has elected Markus Riess, chief executive of dit, Allianz’s retail fund arm, as its new chairman for the next three years.
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Hermes names head of commercial real estate
UK - Hermes, the asset manager owned by the BT Pension Scheme, has named Arlington Property Investors' Tim Turnbull as head of commercial real estate.
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Morgan Stanley asset management chief exits
GLOBAL – Morgan Stanley says Mitchell Merin is to retire as president and chief operating officer of its investment management arm.
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Russell predicts new alternative investing highs
GLOBAL – Hedge fund use by European institutions has increased dramatically in 2005. Their use by continental respondents to the Russell Investment Group’s seventh annual report on alternative investment the doubled to 48% from 24% in 2003.
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ING Real Estate chief quits over Polish complex
POLAND – Paul Trip, chief executive of development at ING Real Estate, has quit over problems at a shopping complex in Warsaw.
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Pelle joins former MN colleagues at boutique
NETHERLANDS – Willem-Jan Pelle, the former head of legal and fiscal affairs at MN Services, has joined the new boutique set up by his former colleague, Erwin Stouthamer.
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TKP Pensioen real estate head retires
NETHERLANDS - TKP Pensioen’s head of real estate investments, Koos Gerlofs, has retired.
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IPE-QUEST: Two new searches
EUROPE – There are two new searches, for Asia-Pacific equities and pan-European real estate, on IPE-QUEST.
