Parents are saving up to £3.79 billion a year for their children with the average family putting aside £54 a month

We successfully launched the OpenWorld Global Opportunistic Listed Property, on 29th July 2009. For this fund, Russell has hired a very experienced and specialised listed property team within CB Richard Ellis Group Inc.

Investor perceptions of Japan have moved from wild optimism in the late 1980s, when asset values soared and Japanese exporters increasingly dominated overseas markets, to grave pessimism today. The current view reflects concerns that, while serious, do not show the full story: in terms of PB ratio,

Real Estate fund managers face a fast-evolving environment, driven by the continuing implications of the financial crisis and the emergence if major new global investment opportunities.

Institutional investors have long seen commercial real estate (CRE) as a diversifying return driver, but nothing more. Today, however, CRE is a multi faceted asset class, capable of satisfying a multitude of investment needs.

The response to the financial crisis is producing a continual stream of proposals to monitor. Solvency II does not sound as if it has a real estate angle. However, once its capital requirements are read, it clearly does. Nabarro looks into the impact of Solvency II.