Institutional Real Estate Europe

April 1, 2012: Vol. 6, Number 4

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Europe

First Property Launches UK Fund

First Property is launching a new UK commercial real estate fund, Fprop Sterling Income Fund (FSIF), which is expected to have an investment strategy similar to the firm’s UK PPP fund, an ungeared UK commercial property fund.

Europe

Core Isn

As the economic turmoil in the euro zone continues, investors across the globe are searching for safety and security. Government bonds, for those countries considered relatively safe, are trading at levels not seen in generations. Even the loss in 2011 of the coveted AAA rating does not seem to have made much of an impact on US Treasuries. The recent placing of the United Kingdom on a negative outlook, with a 30 percent chance of an actual downgrade from its AAA rating within 18 months, does not seem to have affected the country’s borrowing costs. Other safe havens include investment-grade corporate bonds, with US corporate bonds, for example, trading at levels not seen since records began in 1973.

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A Timely Response: Real Estate Fund Managers Are Reacting to Investor Needs by Meeting New Standards for Investment Analytics

As strengthening fundamentals in key real estate markets again attract the attention of institutional investors, real estate investment analytics are undergoing significant changes. Behind these changes lie shifting investor and regulatory expectations that stem from the financial crisis, powerful new technology capabilities and outsourcing-based business models. With their heightened sense of risk awareness, investors are looking to real estate fund managers for increasingly detailed information as they monitor investment performance more closely than ever. At the same time, regulators and policy-makers are raising the bar for reporting requirements. While technology offers a ready means to meet these demands, its cost and complexity can be daunting. As a result, investors and fund managers are turning to the expertise and scale of third-party providers for solutions.

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Blowing Hot and Cold: World Property Markets Are at Various Temperatures and Comfort Levels; As Always, Global Investors Have Their Pick

It is a risky business these days penning articles on property prospects, especially when key milestones that could dramatically influence the outcome pepper the terrain between keyboard and print. That said, and writing in early February, things do seem to have cheered up quite a bit in comparison with the gloom of last year. While we can be under no illusion about the deleveraging challenge facing the economies of the industrialised world, the rally in financial markets at least reflects improving lead indicators in the United States, emerging markets and, to a lesser extent, even the euro zone, where liquidity, if not solvency, concerns have abated. Perhaps the markets sense that we are past the point of maximum uncertainty. 

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Shop Talk: A Conversation with Jeremy Stewardson

Jeremy Stewardsonis executive director of ANREV, the Asian Association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles. In November 2011, ANREV held its annual conference in Singapore, where findings were presented from the organisation’s development of the first Asian property fund index. Alex Eidlin,managing director – Asia Pacific for Institutional Real Estate, Inc, spoke with Stewardson not long after the conclusion of the event to discuss ANREV’s purpose, the conference and what the new Asian Index will mean for investors.

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