Allocation Strategy

The US pension plan has backed the Amsterdam-based real estate investment firm Aevitas Property Partners’ Indian platform to provide financing for residential deals.

The Australian government-run clean energy financer has allocated the capital to AMP Capital’s A$4.7bn Wholesale Office Fund.

Chinese capital curbs show no signs of slowing the long-term trend of investing overseas, panelists at the PERE Asia Summit said.

The Canadian investor has committed $250m of equity for investments in residential developments in India alongside the Mumbai-based firm.

A survey revealed that 88% of investors and fund managers polled at a recent conference in Korea plan to invest in real estate debt over the next 12-18 months and 60% have expressed an interest in mezzanine loans.

The $308.4bn pension plan also committed only $1.6bn during the first half of its current fiscal year, less than half of an approved $4.7bn allocation for the 12-month period.

Qatar Holdings, a subsidiary of the sovereign wealth fund, has backed Mumbai-based ArthVeda Fund Management’s affordable housing strategy.

But the Australian sovereign wealth fund grew to $96.5bn after increasing its private equity and infrastructure investments.

The total market value of real estate and private equity investments made by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority via the Long-term Growth Portfolio increased to $22bn in 2016.

Such transactions accounted for 60 percent of billion-dollar sales in Manhattan in 2016, compared with 42 percent in 2015.