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SANDRA ROBERTSON 2008-05-01 Staff Writer When Cambridge University hired its first chief investment officer in November 2006 to make better use of its financial assets, it wasn't long before its archrival Oxford quickly followed suit. But when the school looked to appoint its first chief investment officer i

PETER PEREIRA-GRAY 2008-05-01 Staff Writer Recently elevated to the position of deputy chief investment officer at charity The Wellcome Trust, Peter Pereira-Gary still remains at the heart of property investment. The charity is viewed by industry participants as being an “important player” in European real e

MICHAEL NIELSEN 2008-05-01 Staff Writer “Solid, thorough and conservative in approach and in character,” is how one European fund manager describes Michael Nielsen. Conservative he may be, but he has grown in influence over recent years as Denmark's largest pension fund has diversified from Danish real estat

SUSAN MEANEY 2008-05-01 Staff Writer When Mike McCaffery left the $14.3 billion (€9 billion) Stanford endowment, Stanford Capital - the third largest university endowment in North America – to set up on his own it created headlines around the globe. Stanford was third only to Harvard University and Yale, and

PATRICK KANTERS 2008-05-01 Staff Writer As the former managing director of ING's investment management division in Patrick Kanters is a force to be reckoned with. Indeed the managing director of Europe and Asia real estate, at Dutch pension fund ABP (now AGP), is variously described as “being ING's biggest

TIMOTHY HOEPPNER 2008-05-01 Staff Writer As foundations go, the MacArthur Foundation has become well known in real estate circles. With a collection of $1 billion (€629 million) of direct-owned real estate, the fund is a big player in the asset class. It also invests indirectly in real estate funds, with $30

GLORIA GIL 2008-05-01 Staff Writer Being compared to a sovereign wealth fund has to be one of the highest honors achievable in the world of limited partners. For Gloria Gil, she has achieved that accolade in the two years since joining the University of California's Treasurer's Office. Previously at the $42

ALAN FORMAN 2008-05-01 Staff Writer Eighteen years. That's how long Yale University's director of investments for real estate has been at the university's $23 billion (€14.5 billion) endowment - the second largest university endowment in the US. Alan Forman, property investments chief, is a long-time Yale ve

Theodore Eliopoulos 2008-05-01 Staff Writer Reigning over the $16 billion (€10 billion) real estate portfolio of the largest public pension in the US, Theodore Eliopoulos has a monumental task at hand. But the task seems less monumental in the hands of this real estate veteran, who began his career as a

Susan Doyle 2008-05-01 Staff Writer General Electric has been called many things during its 130-year history, one of the most telling its comparison to an 800lb gorilla. From light bulbs to television sets and jet engines, GE is undoubtedly one of the world's leading companies and has been at the cutting e