Why ATTEND?

It is currently estimated that there is around US$1.5 trillion of institutional investment in real estate globally, whereas the global yearly turnover of the investment market in normal conditions is approximately US$400 billion.

Still the pension fund markets with the most capital to spend on real estate are the mature pension markets, such as the US, UK, Germany, the Netherlands, etc. However, Asian economies are improving their welfare systems which are creating a major new source of capital for real estate investment. In addition, real estate acquisitions by Asian investors have been recently on the rise. We witnessed Korean, Chinese and Malaysian investors becoming more active globally and others are following suit. This trend clearly reflects that the previously bond-centric Asian institutional investors are revising their asset allocation and increasing their real estate allocations.

The level of sophistication is increasing rapidly and investors have started to engage in more advanced portfolio management practices to prevent from excessive concentration of the risk.

Those changes will be substantial in the global setting and also impact current market practices. In order to highlight Asian investors’ intentions and challenges “REC Institutional Investments 2011 will address the following issues: REC Institutional Investments 2011 will address investors’ concerns and address the following questions:

• Are Asian investors increasing their Real Estate allocation?
• How will Asian investors change the global landscape?
• How important is geographical diversification?
• What are the investment plans for the next 5 years?
• What investments have been done in 2011 and what lessons have been learned?
• What markets are Asian investors looking at and what are their investment strategies? Large cap fund managers versus small/mid cap fund manager
• Korean Institutional Investors’ Investment Intentions and Strategies for 2012
• Are club deals, JV’s and co-investments still the future trend? What are the major challenges to invest through club deals, JV and co-investments?
• What resources do LP’s need in order to invest directly? Is it really feasible for smaller pension funds?
• What types of institutions are investing direct and which investors are going indirect?
• Investment opportunities in Europe, US and Asia