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Pension funds buy up retail targets
UK – LaSalle Investment Management has purchased a shopping centre in the UK on behalf of one pension fund client and secured new tenant leases for two others.
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SanFran City & County suffers fresh real estate drop
UNITED STATES - San Francisco City and County Employees Retirement System took another hit on its real estate portfolio in the first half of 2009, as the falling market continued to hurt investment returns and income.
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Pension plan brings retail shopping to the coalface
UK – LaSalle Investment Management has bought a The Howard Centre UK shopping centre from Land Securities on behalf of Coal Pension Properties, the real estate arm of the British Coal Schemes Pension Plan.
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Texas Teachers moves into core investments
UNITED STATES - Teacher Retirement System of Texas has widened its investments in core real estate and hired three real estate managers to look after $800m (€532.7m).
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Aviva pensions vehicle buys a stake in Sainsbury’s
UK – Aviva Investors’ pooled UK real estate vehicle for pension funds has returned to the market by agreeing to buy a Sainsbury’s food store under development in County Durham, England.
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Varma acts on real estate regrowth
FINLAND – VR Pension Fund has re-entered the real estate market after a two-year absence, following the decision by a Finnish construction company to sell assets to local pension funds.
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ING to focus on mixed use real estate projects
GLOBAL – Dutch-headquartered real estate investor ING Real Estate Development is planning to invest in and develop projects over the next few years which provide secure but mixed origin revenue.
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Aberdeen pension fund goes shopping in East Anglia
UK – Aberdeen Property Investors has purchased five retail units in the UK on behalf of the Aberdeen City Council Pension Fund.
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BBC pension fund moves out of London’s Regent Street
UK – CB Richard Ellis Investors has confirmed the sale of Mutual House, owned by the pension scheme of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), for £30m (€32.1m), reflecting a yield of 5.4%.
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Tesco continues property deals with pension funds
UK – Tesco has formed a fourth joint venture with a UK pension fund to sell and leaseback property assets, in an effort to release value from its property portfolio.
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Heitman buys into shopping venture
UNITED STATES – Heitman, the real estate asset manager, has formed a joint venture with Macerich, the US shopping centre owner, and bought a major stake in two US regional shopping centres.
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USS snaps another high street bargain
UK – The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) has made another retail acquisition in the UK, taking its total UK real estate investment in 2009 to £300m (€327m).
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SWIP re-enters European retail property
EUROPE – Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) has signalled its intention to re-enter the continental European real estate market with the launch of retail fund run in partnership with Cushman & Wakefield Investors (CWI).
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Progress almost complete on real estate disposal
NETHERLANDS – Progress, the Dutch pension fund of food giant Unilever, is close to completing the disposal of its entire directly-held real estate portfolio.
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Birmingham shoppers to support Australian pensions
AUSTRALIA/UK – The Australian government’s Future Fund has bought a 33% stake in the Bullring in Birmingham, England from Land Securities.
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Hampshire to target UK property in next 12 months
UK – Hampshire County Council is looking to almost double its pension fund's exposure to UK commercial property over the next year to meet the 8% target allocation agreed before the market downturn.
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Sentiment in UK CRE improving but more pain to come
UK – Average property yields in the UK fell by 15 basis points to 7.03% in August, the lowest level since November 2008, according to Cushman & Wakefield.
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Korean NPS to invest in central London prime
KOREA/UK – The National Pension Service of Korea (NPS), the fifth largest pension fund in the world, has awarded a mandate to UK-based Rockspring Property Investment Managers to invest in prime central London real estate.
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ABFPT purchases retail park
UK – Wilky Fund Management has purchased Brook Retail Park in Clacton-on-Sea on behalf of the Associated British Foods Pension Trustees (ABFPT) for £11.5m (€13.2m).
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Ropemaker set to make UK acquisitions
UK - Ropemaker Properties, the direct real estate investment arm of the BP Pension Fund, is expected to complete two real estate acquisitions in the UK.
