Allocation Strategy

The pair, alongside African investor Wendel and Africa distribution specialists CFAO, have acquired a property firm that develops and operates shopping centers across the continent.

The percentage of institutions actively looking to add new relationships has soared from just 30% last year.

Private real estate firms in Asia have predicted the impending departure of Britain from the European Union will have a bigger impact on currency and interest rates than on their investment strategies.

The country’s largest pubic pension system established a transition manager program for firms in between its emerging manager platform and its pool of larger established managers.

Partners Group has launched what it describes as the first private markets fund designed for UK defined contribution pension schemes. Other firms will likely follow.

Japanese public pension plan, Chikyoren, has hired the firm to invest in domestic real estate after releasing an RFP for domestic and international real estate and infrastructure last July.

Allocations to real estate from sovereign wealth funds have grown faster than those to both private equity and infrastructure over the past three years, according to a study from the investment firm.

At this year’s PERE Europe Summit 2016, senior editor Jonathan Brasse sat down with Bill Tresham, president of Canadian investment giant Ivanhoe Cambridge to hear how the world’s ninth largest institutional investor, with assets under management of around $55 million, is navigating today’s private real estate marketplace. 

Institutional investor allocations to real estate will increase but investment managers must remain disciplined, Bill Tresham, president, Ivanhoé Cambridge told delegates at the PERE Europe Summit.

The impact of negative interest rates will be positive on real estate pricing, fundamentals and capital flows, according to fresh research from the Swiss bank.