SWFI First Read, December 8, 2018
Posted on 12/08/2018
UBS Trumbull Property Fund Faces Redemption, MassPRIM Benefits
Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board (Mass PRIM) Allianz Real Estate, and Beacon Capital Partners acquired the Exchange Place skyscraper in Boston has been sold for US$ 845 million from UBS Realty Investors. UBS Realty, part of UBS Group AG, acquired the 53 State Street office tower in December 2011 from Brookfield Office Properties for US$ 610 million. Tenants of the property include Morgan Stanley, The Boston Globe, Hill Holliday, and Nixon Peabody. The property was a major holding of the open-ended fund called UBS Trumbull Property Fund.
MassPRIM will own 49% of the property.
Tower Hamlets Pension Fund Awards Equity Protection Mandate to Schroders
In September 2018, Tower Hamlets Pension Fund awarded Schroders with a mandate for a risk management solution for £700 million in an equity protection strategy. This covers about half of the fund’s portfolio of £1.4 billion. The pension fund’s consultant is Mercer.
Ebola Spreads in the Congo
The second-largest Ebola outbreak in world history has spread to Butembo, a city in eastern Congo with more than 1 million inhabitants.
NZSF Board Member Joins Board of NZX
The NZX (New Zealand Stock Exchange) board of directors named Lindsay Wright as lead independent director. She is former Deputy Chair of the Board of the Guardians of the New Zealand Superannuation Fund.
Correction: Earlier she was noted as a Deputy Chair of NZSF, which her term expired earlier.