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German vehicles head home
Spezialfonds are continuing to attract institutional capital, but their investment focus has shifted to domestic markets and larger individual assets, according to a new study. Barbara Ottawa reports
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MagazineThe true cost of liquidity
Many investors are locked into frozen funds but have the option of selling on the secondary market at significant discounts. Michael Stein examines the implications for investment performance
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Consistency through change
The German open-ended real estate fund industry is going through some changes, following a number of redemption freezes and regulatory reforms. Reinhard Kutscher looks at what the future holds for the sector
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Finding a niche
Banks are offloading 鈥榥on-core鈥� assets in every sense of the word, which is why Patron Capital Partners has been so active in hospitality and healthcare. Richard Lowe talks to founder Keith Breslauer
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Evolutionary growth
German real estate Spezialfonds look set to thrive, but Henning Kl枚ppelt warns that they need to adapt to a changing environment. He speaks to Barbara Ottawa about the burgeoning fund sector
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On a knife鈥檚 edge
Whether the euro-zone will avoid breaking up is still to be seen. But more importantly, Sotiris Tsolacos finds significant ramifications for real estate investors under every scenario
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Battling the currents
Boutique firms are facing the triple whammy of constrained capital markets, burdensome regulation and larger acquisitive firms. Are the odds stacked against their survival? Shayla Walmsley reports
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Markets under a shadow
The debt crisis in Europe has not stopped institutions from investing in real estate but it is affecting investment strategies. Lynn Strongin Dodds reports
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Insatiable appetite
The Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global has a long way to go to achieve its 5% target allocation to real estate, says Pirkko Juntunen
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Swedes gain home advantage
Swedish institutional investors have benefited from a stable domestic real estate market, but competition for institutional grade assets is high. Pirkko Juntunen reports
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Survival of the smallest
Can boutique real estate managers thrive in the current environment? Shayla Walmsley asks six industry players
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Real politik
Solvency II was one of the major talking points of this year鈥檚 EXPO Real trade fair in Munich, but many important questions still remain. Richard Lowe reports
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Stemming the flow
Banks are steadily offloading real estate loans. But could market developments reduce the volume of deals in the short term? Lynn Strongin Dodds reports
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Danes still building exposure
The market uncertainty has prompted Danish pension funds to move slowly and carefully. But the signs are that real estate allocations will soon start to rise, as Rachel Fixsen finds
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Real reason why UK funds shun residential
The recent claim by Andrew Chapman, John Lewis pension scheme鈥檚 investment manager, that no scheme wanted to be exposed to reputational risks such as tenant evictions, and the solution would be to separate investment and asset management 鈥渟o we weren鈥檛 held responsible in that way鈥�, amounted to a request for ...
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Evolving European sale-and-leaseback market
The European sale-and-leaseback market has another player. FIDAC, the UK-based subsidiary of US REIT Annaly Capital Management, recently announced it had hired Northcliffe鈥檚 entire management team for a planned pan-European sale-and-leaseback surge. Citing a potential $4trn (鈧�2.9trn) market, Northcliffe managing partner Alistair Calvert announced the imminent 鈥渓argest expansion of sale-and-leaseback ...
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The holes in sustainable real estate
Sustainable real estate might stand more chance of becoming mainstream were it not for the absence of an industry-agreed benchmark, woeful inadequacy of data and perennial disagreement over who will pay for it.
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Consultants take on multi-managers at own game
For an idea of where a business is going, it is always worth looking at new hires. In the past few weeks, Towers Watson took on Peter Lewis as head of its US real estate investment manager research team, while Mercer hired Matthew Abbott as a senior researcher in the ...
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The time has come for German listed property
The European Public Real Estate Association (EPRA) is determined to shake up the status quo in Germany, which has long been dominated by the unlisted, open-ended funds sector.
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A helping hand
Real estate fund managers are finding ways to help investors move up the risk curve. Shayla Walmsley reports
