Japanese public pension plan, Chikyoren, has hired UBS Asset Management to invest in overseas real estate after releasing an RFP last July.
2 min read · 11 July 2016
Capital inflows into the sector have beaten 2007 levels in the first five months and are expected to beat the previous high of 2008, according to data from the property services firm.
1 min read · 11 July 2016
Despite investors’ Brexit-concerns, European funds in market are finding US public pensions more welcoming than in prior fundraising cycles.
3 min read · 07 July 2016
The insurer announced the first of at least two mandates this year in a bid to diversify its real estate investments.
2 min read · 08 July 2016
Madison Realty Capital purchased the mixed-use property with capital from its first equity fund.
2 min read · 07 July 2016
Columbia Threadneedle Investments and Canada Life have now suspended trading on their UK retail property funds in the aftermath of Britain’s EU referendum result.
2 min read · 07 July 2016
The Swiss investment bank plans to invest the capital primarily in Italy and secondarily in the wider Eurozone.
2 min read · 06 July 2016
The investment manager has followed Standard Life Investments, Aviva Investors and M&G Investments in halting redemption requests for its open-ended UK property fund, meaning that now £13bn of UK property is under lock and key.
2 min read · 06 July 2016
M&G Investments, the investment arm of UK pension fund Prudential, becomes the third firm in two days to suspend real estate fund trading following Standard Life and Aviva.
2 min read · 05 July 2016
The global asset management platform of UK insurer Aviva becomes the second UK insurer since Monday to suspend trading citing ‘extraordinary market circumstances’ following the Brexit decision.
2 min read · 05 July 2016
