Sovereign Wealth Funds Investing In Real Estate

With sovereign wealth funds representing a growing source of potential capital to the private real estate industry, Jack Jackson, Amy Bensted and Graeme Terry provide an insight into this secretive and exclusive subset of the investor community using data from the recently launched 2014 Preqin Sovereign Wealth Fund Review.

Sovereign wealth funds continued to make headline news in 2013 due to their large assets and growing infl uence over the global fi nancial community. For the fi rst time, assets of these sovereign wealth entities have surpassed the $5tn mark, with total assets estimated at $5.13tn as of October 2013. Concerning investments into real estate, sovereign wealth funds allocate more than $180bn to the asset class, and therefore represent a signifi cant source 
of potential capital for private real estate fund managers. Using data from Preqin’s newly-released 2014 Sovereign Wealth Fund Review, this article looks deeper into the real estate investments of sovereign wealth funds.

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This BLOG  looks at pensions and their impact on what are called Public Private Partnerships or P3’s these are not really about private funding at all but about two streams of public funding, pensions and government with private capital a third partner.
We will also deal with other pension matters, such as Defined Contribution Plans (DC) vs Defined Benefit (DB) PLANS, the weakness in private plans, the need for pension reform in public pensions to have shareholder rights, directorships and ethical investment directives and policies. 
Finally taking the long view we will show how these funds are forms of evolving social capital that is dominating private capital as we evolve into socialization of capital. 
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