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Green Rating Alliance launches environmental property tool
Institutional investors in Europe unveil association, benchmarking platform.
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Premium for green buildings 'not common sense' for most companies
Buck Consultants argues sustainable issues play 'minor role' in new office site selection.
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ESG focus shifting to 'other asset classes' 鈥� AXA IM
Innovation to evolve around alternatives such as real estate, says new hire Matt Christensen.
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German scheme invests 鈧�25m in Italian solar power
Asset manager leading deal estimates 15% annual return over 20-year investment horizon.
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Investors keen to go green, but lack evaluation criteria
Three-quarters of investors in Germany, France and UK question clarity of evaluation criteria.
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Real estate risk profile 'more important' than geography
Geography will cease to be the main factor of real estate funds in the future, an online audience was told during IP Real Estate's latest webcast.
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Lend Lease provides PGGM with direct infrastructure exposure
EUROPE 鈥� Dutch pension fund asset manager PGGM has committed 拢220m (鈧�262m) in capital to become the principal investor in a joint venture with Lend Lease targeting social infrastructure in the UK.
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PKA acquires 鈧�79m office, retail project in Copenhagen
DENMARK 鈥� Denmark's PKA has bought an office and retail construction project in the country's capital for DKK588m (鈧�79m), with provisional leases already secured for around a quarter of units.
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Real estate industry must raise professional standards, says PGGM
EUROPE 鈥� Real estate needs to raise its level of professional standards 鈥� including performance measurement 鈥� to those of other asset classes, according to Guido Verhoef, head of private real estate at PGGM.
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Real estate industry 'lags rest of business' on customer service
GLOBAL 鈥� The real estate industry still has "a long way to go" to catch up the rest of business in its approach to customers, according to Howard Morgan, managing director of real estate customer service consultants RealService.
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Merseyside pension scheme tenders for property asset manager
UK 鈥� The 拢4.2bn Merseyside Pension Fund (MPF) is tendering the position of property asset manager for its UK-based direct real estate investments.
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Norway Global excludes companies for breaching Geneva Convention
EUROPE 鈥� The NOK2.8trn (鈧�352bn) Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) is planning to exclude two Israeli companies and one Malaysian company, worth a combined NOK15m, from its investment universe.
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Luxembourg Fund Partners to launch high-tech fund for CEE region
EUROPE 鈥� Luxembourg Fund Partners is set to launch a fund focusing on high-tech real estate in central and eastern Europe (CEE).
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AXA REIM returns with development strategy
EUROPE 鈥� AXA Real Estate Investment Managers has attracted strong interest in its first European real estate development fund in six years and expects to be able to raise at least 鈧�600m by September.
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PGGM won over by SLI's responsible investment credentials
NETHERLANDS/UK 鈥� PGGM, the Dutch pension fund asset manager, has invested 鈧�75m in a UK shopping centre fund managed by Standard Life Investments.
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Pension funds and IVG co-invest in green fund
EUROPE 鈥� Four unnamed pension funds 鈥� three German, one Austrian 鈥� have each invested 鈧�33m in a 鈧�300m sustainable office fund.
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Strathclyde to increase focus on RI in property review
UK 鈥� Strathclyde Pension Fund's current review of its property portfolio will include 'further consideration' of the application of its responsible investment (RI) strategy.
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Low carbon property fund to target 'high-quality tenants'
UK 鈥� A new 'low carbon' real estate fund is being planned to refurbish 50 properties in the UK into high specification energy efficient space and offer it to tenants at 鈥榤arket prices鈥�.
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Standard Life snaps up Tesco 'eco' sale-and-leaseback
UK 鈥� Standard Life Investments has acquired a Tesco Extra Supermarket in Shrewsbury for its 拢1.85bn (鈧�2.04bn) Pooled Property Pension Fund.
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UK and Nordic pension investors opt for Nordic logistics fund
UK/NORDICS - A group of large Nordic and UK institutional investors have invested in a new logistics real estate fund offered by Nordic Real Estate Partners, which will invest in Nordic logistics properties.
