The sovereign fund has doubled its profits to S$18.2bn although the size of its real estate portfolio has fallen by two percent in the past year. As the credit market fallout continues, Temasek has indicated it will continue to do direct deals in financial services.
The sovereign fund, which has received US antitrust approval to raise its stake in Merrill Lynch, has doubled its profits to S$18.2 billion. Though it predicts continued credit market fallout will dampen the economy, Temasek has indicated it will continue to do direct deals in financial services.
Investors from outside Europe, including private equity real estate firms, could be affected by an amendment to Germany's Foreign Trade Act approved today. The ruling is aimed at sovereign wealth funds but lawyers say it complicates private equity-style investing.
The president of JER Partners, Michael Pralle, argues investing in private equity real estate funds could prove a good fit for Middle Eastern and Asian countries rich with petro-dollars. Private equity real estate, he said, provided a 'middle road' to funds wanting alternatives to direct investing and REITs.
The $72.3bn US pension joins a raft of North American funds recording losses for the year to June 30. Once again real estate was the best performing asset class returning 8.74%, followed by fixed income and private equity.
The US’s largest pension fund is to increase its infrastructure allocation to 3 percent, or $8.3 billion, over the next two years.
A report by PCA to the $234bn California pension fund has highlighted China and India as the most attractive emerging markets in which to invest. The pension will next week consider backing calls to allocate significantly more capital to emerging markets over the next decade.
CVC Capital Partners’ latest buyout fund leads the pack with a €500m commitment from the public pension giant.
The $234.2bn pension is mulling a possible change to its private equity allocation, as the twin forces of sinking assets under management and shrinking distributions have combined for an overweighted alternatives exposure.
The $127bn pension fund saw its real estate investments return just 8.7% in the year to June 30, 2008 – against a benchmark of more than 10%. Despite its underperformance, real estate remained the strongest asset class for the pension during turbulent market conditions.
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