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Events
Alternative Investment Summit Australia 2008
August 4-6 2008
Sydney
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Islamic Finance & Investment World
August 25-28, 2008
Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa
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CPN Dallas-FW Property Opportunities 2008
August 26, 2008
Dallas, Texas
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RealShare Inland Empire
August 27, 2008
Ontario, Calif.
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Independently Wealthy:
Sovereign wealth funds eye trophy real estate
Last week, the Abu Dhabi Investment Council, a sovereign wealth fund from the United Arab Emirates, paid $800 million for a 90 percent share of Manhattan's iconic Chrysler Building. And just a few months ago, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), the Investment Council's big sister, invested $7.5 billion in Citigroup.
These two Abu Dhabi deals illustrate the growing power of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). These funds, which are typically defined as pools of domestic and international assets owned and managed by governments, are increasingly active on the global stage and particularly active in the United States.
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Spicy Markets:
Emerging Opportunities in Latin America
While global investors and developers have plowed money in Mexico's commercial real estate markets for several years, they're now moving deeper into the Latin America region.
Both U.S. and European real estate investors are showing growing interest in acquiring assets and developing new projects in Latin America, a region where property prices have generally been lower and yields higher than in their home markets, according to experts. Moreover, the investment arena in Latin America isn't as crowded as more established markets.
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Expert Q&A:
James A. Fetgatter, CEO of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE)
This month, the Global Real Estate Monitor connected with James Fetgatter, CEO of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE), to discuss foreign investment activity in the U.S. commercial real estate sector.
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Seeing is Believing:
Commercial real estate firms value videoconferencing
In the commercial real estate world, a new brand of face time is triggering a shift in how business is done. As travel costs climb, technology improves and green initiatives sprout, commercial real estate companies are joining the growing movement toward videoconferencing. Helping spur this trend is so-called telepresence technology, which in many cases can make you feel like you're in the same room with someone who's actually thousands of miles away.
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For years, large institutional investors have flocked to private investments in global infrastructure because of their distinctive and potentially rewarding diversification benefits. But, most infrastructure funds were exclusively for institutional investors — individual investors had no way to reap the rewards of these funds. Now, both individuals and institutions have access to infrastructure investments through the new First American Global Infrastructure Fund.
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Emerging markets have significantly improved their levels of real estate transparency, according to the latest Global Real Estate Transparency Index from Jones Lang LaSalle and LaSalle Investment Management. In 2008, eight countries moved up a full transparency tier since the last index in 2006. Dubai, Romania, Ukraine and Russia showed the biggest improvements in transparency over the last two years.
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The wealth of the world's high net worth individuals (HNWIs) increased 9.4 percent to US$40.7 trillion in 2007, according to the 12th annual World Wealth Report by Merrill Lynch and Capgemini.
The number of HNWIs in the world increased 6 percent in 2007 to 10.1 million, the number of ultra high net worth individuals (Ultra-HNWIs2) increased by 8.8 percent, and for the first time in the history of the report, the average assets held by HNWIs exceeded US$4 million.
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