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GLOBAL - Investors in Australia, the UK and Sweden ranked highest in a new "Environmental Real Estate Index" developed on the back of a global environmental survey commissioned by three large European pension funds.

NETHERLANDS - The implementation of the Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFM) in its current form could result in an annual loss of around €1.5bn (US$2.2bn) for Dutch pension funds, and a reallocation into more traditional asset classes,...

Lynn Strongin-dodds discusses how timber has outperformed both equities and bonds over a 20-year time horizon

KOREA - Institutional investors with a combined US$2.5trn in assets under management have written Korea's Ministry of Justice asking it to refrain from introducing anti-takeover measures known as poison pills into its Commercial Code.

Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at the rising trend towards timber investment and the many routes investors can take

Like other markets, real estate has taken a tumble in the last two years. However, the sector is still set for long term growth, as Richard Lowe reports

NETHERLANDS - Dutch pension fund investor APG has planned to increase its exposure to private equity by committing €4bn (US$5.9bn) to new investments.

EUROPE - The proposed Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive is in some respects "misguided" and would reduce investment returns and increase risk, the UK's National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has claimed.

NETHERLANDS - A group of Dutch pension funds and institutional investors has written to the European Commission to express their concerns on the effects of the proposed alternative investment fund management directive.

THE NETHERLANDS - Pension fund investor APG has appointed Angelien Kemna as chief investment officer of APG and chief executive of APG Asset Management.