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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Societe de la Tour Eiffel, the first French Real Estate Investment Trust
Posted by SeoulBuffoon on 11:12 AM
The Societe de la Tour Eiffel is a French Real Estate Investment Trust (Société d’investissements immobiliers cotée - SIIC) based in Paris. It is the first REIT in France, beginning with 2004, and specializes in office buildings and business parks in France, and also owns warehouses, light industrial areas, and nursing home in the South of France.
European REITs first appeared in the Netherlands (1969), and then subsequently in Belgium (1995), France (2003), and the United Kingdom (2007), Germany (2007) and Italy (2007).
They each have their own unique characteristics but also share common traits due largely to the fact that they are often competing for the same investors. European REITs are generally publicly-listed vehicles with corporation structures that make long-term investments in...
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Interview: Mr. Nicholas Wong, Principal, The Townsend Group
Posted by SeoulBuffoon on 10:31 AM
The Townsend Group was founded in 1983 by Mr. Terry Ahern and Mr. Kevin Lynch on the premise of providing uncompromised and unbiased real estate investment advice to institutional investors worldwide. Headquartered in Cleveland, it is the largest specialty real estate investment consulting firm in the industry.
In addition to Mr. Ahern and Mr. Lynch, the team is comprised of 52 real estate professionals, including 31 Principals, Consultants and Associates and a dedicated research initiative. Townsend provides global property investment counsel to more than 85 clients on both a discretionary and non-discretionary basis, representing real estate allocations in excess of $100 billion. Its clients include public pension funds, corporations, foundations, endowments, financial institutions and...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Interview: Mr. Edward Casal, Chief Investment Officer, Global Real Estate Multi-Manager Group, Aviva Investors
Posted by SeoulBuffoon on 4:29 PM
Aviva Investors is a global asset management business and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aviva plc, the world's fifth-largest insurance group and a world leader in financial services.
The company’s real estate team, based in New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Singapore and Melbourne is made up of over 170 people, of whom about 95 are investment professionals, including fund managers, asset managers, strategists, researchers and property finance experts.
It currently manage global real estate assets in excess of of $33 billion and already has extensive holdings in Europe as well as a growing presence in North America and the Asia-Pacific region. Of this, more than $6 billion has been invested through multi-manager strategies making it one of the largest global real estate multi-manager investors.
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Friday, January 14, 2011
Interview: Ms. Claribel B. David, Vice President, WFTO
Posted by SeoulBuffoon on 3:25 PM
The World Fair Trade Organization represents Fair Traders from grassroots through to the G8 and is the authentic voice of Fair Trade, having driven the movement for 20 years. It is the only global network whose members represent the Fair Trade chain from production to sale.
The WFTO is a global authority on Fair Trade, with a vision of a world in which trade structures and practices have been transformed to work in favour of the poor and promote sustainable development and justice. Membership of the WFTO is limited to organizations that demonstrate a 100% Fair Trade commitment and apply its 10 Principles of Fair Trade. WFTO members who are monitored against these Principles are listed in the Fair Trade 100 index of world-leading Fair Trade brands, businesses and organizations.
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