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With a divestment to AustralianSuper, the Canadian pension investor is executing a long-term plan to achieve scale in European logistics.

The pension’s December commitments included $400m to a co-investment vehicle with Blue Owl and $75m to a new manager relationship.

The pension plan favors core assets and is launching an emerging manager program.

The National Pension Service of Korea has made its UK single-family rental debut with a commitment to a vehicle managed by Long Harbour.

Heitman executive Blaise Keane offers insight on the macroeconomic factors and investment trends likely to impact self-storage and other alternative property types.

The pension fund could allocate $1.45bn to real estate funds over the coming decade.

Speakers at NYU Schack’s capital markets conference disagree on whether to hold or dispose of core assets.

As well as providing a significant boost to Partners’ direct real estate business, the merger of the two Swiss firms will add real estate credit to the manager’s offering.

Gaining significant exposure to real estate credit was also a key draw, according to global co-head of real estate Karim Habra.

Although part of a 183-year-old family business, the Dutch asset manager is the new kid on the block when it comes to third-party capital management.