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China is a key market for the German insurer's Asia-Pacific investment strategy, but Rushabh Desai tells PERE it will try to avoid speculating on infrastructure growth in the country.

Rushabh Desai, head of Asia Pacific at Allianz Real Estate, tells PERE that unlike other markets, institutional investors have entered India before the opportunistic and value-add managers, creating questions on how investments will be exited in five to ten years.

The change comes weeks after the Canadian investor named a global president and a head of business units.

In a departure from its existing strategy, the real estate arm of the Canadian life insurer is looking to deploy capital via pan-Asia core funds.

Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund teams up with a variety of institutional investors to invest in what has been billed as ‘the last major opportunity to buy into a hospitality carve-out.’

Germany’s largest public pension fund is still hoping to invest up to €500 million in the world’s biggest property market this year via four new managers.

Europe and Asia continued to knit tighter relationships, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s annual report.

The Swiss insurer’s investing plans include a return to one particular western European market after a 14-year absence.

Research from two of the world’s biggest property services firms released at the week-long property jamboree in the south of France shows industrial real estate has overtaken offices as European investors’ preferred property type.

The $2.5bn pension system’s executive director allegedly arranged ‘for impromptu meetings with investment firms to justify travel expenses.'