CalPERS Looking For Real Estate Advisors

by Tom Royce on February 1, 2010


CalPERSAre you looking for easy money and a low bar?

Then CalPERS, the massive public employee retirement plan in California, may have the gig for you. They are looking for real estate advisor’s to guide there investments.

California Public Employees’ Retirement System(CalPERS) is looking to add real estate advisors to its special projects’ spring-fed pool, IM Weeklyreports. The plan does not have a fixed number of consultants, who will join the spring-fed pool.via emii

But don’t worry, if past results are indicative of future earnings, you can last a few years in this lucrative position if you lose less than 500 million dollars. That is what the previous advisors from Black Rock Inc. lost the pension as they advised them to invest  in the Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village Project with Tishman Speyer Properties and themselves.

Can you do any worse? If you can bring a deal to the table that would lose only 100 million or so you may have a pretty healthy gig on your hands with CalPERS.

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System officially has lost a $500-million stake in the biggest deal ever in the U.S. for a single piece of residential property.

The owners of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, a complex of 56 buildings with 11,000 rental units near the East River in Manhattan, have agreed to turn the property over to creditors after defaulting on $4.4 billion in debt.

CalPERS had committed 26.5% of the partnership led by Tishman Speyer Properties and Black Rock Inc., one of the fund’s real estate investment advisors. “This was one of our investments when the real estate market was peaking during 2005 and 2006,” said Clark McKinley, a CalPERS spokesman. “Performance was negatively affected by the aftershock of the market collapse. via LATimes.com

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Harry Connor Jr February 26, 2010 at 4:27 am

Anthropologically speaking, males are traditionally hunters, while females are the collectors. When it comes to tax deed investing, no matter the gender, you have to learn to become both, a hunter, and a collector. Sure, collecting is the best part, because to collect, you are becoming an owner, and after all, "Owning the Deed, is the Goal!" Collecting is the last part of the whole tax deed investing process. It is a very small part, yet one which contains all the rewards. But, to get to the collection and ownership part, you will have to become a hunter.

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michael birnkrant April 28, 2010 at 10:15 am

I have invested and developed in excess of $1,000,000 of industrial,office, and retail throughout the

the united States,and have advised pension funds for many years.Your need for an advisor sounds very interesting,and feel free to ask for any information about my qualifications.

thanking You in advance

Michael Birnkrant Jr,

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