Institutional Investors Look To Net-Leased Property | Commercial ...

September 19, 2012

By Brandon Duff, Director, Stan Johnson Co.

Institutional investors?pension funds, insurance companies, public and private REITs?are having a hard time finding yield in these economically uncertain times. Interest rates are likely to remain historically low, perhaps for years. The bond market is steady but uninspiring. The performance of commercial real estate is less predictable than ever; development is depressed; cap rates are low.

In these circumstances, yield-driven investors with good access to capital are more likely to put their money into single-tenant, net-leased real estate. Such assets generally provide a better yield than bonds, and are just about as safe and worry-free. Institutional investors? interest in these assets is likely to grow as the national economy remains shaky. Publicly traded REITs, in particular, might be drawn more to single-tenant properties, as they try to attract individual investors who are also seeking yield. REIT stocks continue to gain popularity, mainly due to a shortage of alternative investments that promise a comparable return.

Single-tenant net-leased properties require little to no management on the part of the owner, and only minimal oversight. The cash flow, in most cases, is dependable. And if a crisis befalls, and the tenant goes out of business?an unlikely outcome in a building with a long-term net lease on it?the owner will still have a valuable, tangible asset to trade or re-tenant.

Although cap rates are tight, and not likely to improve (from the buyer?s point of view) any time soon, there still exists a wide spread between yields on Treasury bonds and most other debt securities, and the yield derived from a building that?s net-leased to a credit tenant. Moreover, institutional investors with an appetite for risk are now more likely to work with non-credit tenants and non-traditional assets.

Even a conservative institutional investor will sometimes consider an asset that?s net-leased to a non-credit tenant if they understand that tenant?s story and are confident enough in the tenant?s balance sheet to underwrite the risk. Some institutions will also consider unconventional net-leased properties such as vineyards, ski slopes, and racetracks, to bring in a little higher yield. An investor with a large portfolio can blend those assets with others purchased at much more aggressive cap rates, such as building that?s net-leased to Walgreens or AutoZone, to get a return somewhere in the middle.

The tendency of institutional investors to pay more attention to single-tenant net-leased properties?including some less-than-conventional assets?will probably increase as these investors consolidate and expand. This month?s purchase of American Realty Capital Trust by Realty Income (a REIT that specializes in net-leased retail buildings) might serve as a harbinger. By buying American Realty (for about $1.9 billion in stock), Realty Income diversifies its portfolio to include non-retail net leased properties. It will probably be looking for more properties outside of its traditional model?and because of its size, Realty Income will have amazing access to cheap capital.

We can expect mammoth institutional investors?especially those who seek capital from the public markets?to dominate the net-leased market in the future, squeezing smaller investors out of the most attractive deals because they?re better capitalized and can make more aggressive offers.

Source: http://www.cpexecutive.com/newsletters/capitalmarkets-newsletter/netleasecolumn/institutional-investors-look-to-net-leased-property/

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UK lawmakers tell G4S to waive $92 million fee for Olympic failure

LONDON (Reuters) - G4S's bill for its embarrassing London Olympic staffing failure could rise after British lawmakers demanded the embattled security firm waive its management fee and compensate Games staff neglected in its chaotic recruitment drive.

The world's biggest security firm has been under fire since admitting just two weeks before the Games began that it could not provide a promised 10,400 venue guards, embarrassing the government - a key customer - and forcing British troops to cancel holidays and fill the shortfall.

G4S has already estimated a 50 million pound ($81 million) loss on the Olympic contract relating to the cost of deploying additional police and military personnel and the likely penalties the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games will impose, but that may prove conservative.

In a report published on Friday, Britain's Home Affairs Committee, which twice hauled in G4S chief Nick Buckles to explain the Olympic debacle, said responsibility for the failure was with G4S and that its most senior personnel should be held accountable for making misleading staffing assurances to security officials so close to the start of the Games.

"Far from being able to stage two Games on two continents at the same time, as they recklessly boasted, G4S could not even stage one," said Keith Vaz, Chairman of the influential Home Affairs Committee, referring to an interview managing director of G4S Global Events, Ian Horseman Sewell, gave to Reuters in July.

"G4S should waive its 57 million pound management fee and also compensate its staff and prospective staff who it treated in a cavalier fashion."

LOCOG has so far parted with only 90 million pounds of the 237 million pound contract and earlier this month insisted the remainder would have to be negotiated.

In a statement on Friday G4S accepted responsibility for its failure to deliver in full on the security contract, but reaffirmed its right to the management fee, which relates to set-up costs for the operation.

Vaz advised LOCOG to negotiate "robustly" with G4S in the public interest on the remainder of the contract.

The total security contract for the Olympics is worth 284 million pounds, including work already paid for in 2011 by the Olympic Delivery Authority.

G4S said discussions on the final financial settlement with LOCOG were underway.

The staffing blunder has already hit G4S hard, hurting its share price, bringing Buckles' job into question and jeopardizing its future chances of winning core government work - the chief concern for the board and shareholders.

With an internal report on the debacle due out this month, their views on whether the company can still win UK prison and police contracts with Buckles - a 27-year company veteran - at the helm are likely to weigh on a decision about his fate.

RECRUITMENT SHAMBLES

The Committee said it had received submissions from applicants that wanted to work for G4S at the Olympics with many explaining that they had been dropped without explanation despite passing an interview and vetting stage. Others were accredited and trained but had no work when the Games started.

"One applicant from Northern Ireland says that he reported for work in Glasgow as requested but was sent home because G4S had run out of uniforms," the report read, adding that the day after the Olympic closing ceremony was the first date on which the number of staff supplied by G4S met LOCOG's demand.

G4S, which eventually supplied 7,800 guards for the Games, said it had already started compensating some of the staff affected.

"G4S has already agreed a process, in conjunction with the GMB Union, for compensating those candidates who completed training and accreditation or made a significant journey through the recruitment process, but were unable to work at the games," the company said in a statement.

G4S, the world's second-largest private sector employer, running operations from border control to guarding ships from pirates and cash transportation in 125 countries, makes over half of its 1.8 billion pounds of British revenue from the government.

As private sector involvement in police and criminal justice services - key markets for G4S - grows, the Committee recommended the government should establish a register of high-risk providers, with "a track-record of failure in the delivery of public services".

The debacle is the second major setback for the firm inside a year after it caved in to investor pressure to scrap a 5.2 billion pound acquisition of Danish cleaning firm ISS at a cost of around 55 million pounds last November.

The group, which in August posted a 5.8 percent rise in first-half revenues to 3.9 billion pounds, is expected to make a full-year pretax profit of 424.89 million pounds according to a consensus of 17 analysts polled by Reuters.

Shares in the FTSE 100 firm fell heavily after the staffing shortfall was first announced but have recovered to around 5 percent down on before the news, valuing the business at around 3.7 billion pounds. $1 = 0.6164 British pounds) ($1 = 0.6173 British pounds)

(Reporting by Neil Maidment; Editing by Helen Massy-Beresford)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/uk-lawmakers-tell-g4s-waive-92-million-fee-230310258--oly.html

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Obamas to make 1st joint appearance on 'The View'

(AP) ? President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, will make their first joint appearance on the daytime show "The View" next week.

The show says the Democratic president and first lady will tape an episode Monday to air Tuesday. Obama's appearance in July 2010 was the show's most-watched episode ever.

GOP challenger Mitt Romney might not be far behind. Romney said in private remarks to donors made public this week that going on "The View" is high risk because of the sharp-tongued female hosts, only one of whom is a conservative.

That conservative, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, said Wednesday that she had reached out to Romney, and the campaign said he'd love to come on the show in October.

CBS' "60 Minutes" also announced both candidates will appear Sunday in separate interviews.

Associated Press

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Revolutionary ultrathin, flat lens: Smartphones as thin as a credit card?

ScienceDaily (Sep. 19, 2012) ? Scientists are reporting development of a revolutionary new lens -- flat, distortion-free, so small that more than 1,500 would fit across the width of a human hair -- capable in the future of replacing lenses in applications ranging from cell phones to cameras to fiber-optic communication systems. The advance, which could lead to smart phones as thin as a credit card, appears in ACS' journal Nano Letters.

Federico Capasso and colleagues explain that the lenses used to focus light in eyeglasses, microscopes and other products use the same basic technology dating to the late 1200s, when spectacle lenses were introduced in Europe. Existing lenses are not thin or flat enough to remove distortions, such as spherical aberration, astigmatism and coma, which prevent the creation of a sharp image. Correction of those distortions requires complex solutions, such as multiple lenses that increase weight and take up space. To overcome these challenges, the scientists sought to develop a new superthin, flat lens.

Although the new lens is ultra-thin, it has a resolving power that actually approaches the theoretical limits set by the laws of optics. The lens surface is patterned with tiny metallic stripes which bend light differently as one moves away from the center, causing the beam to sharply focus without distorting the images. The current version of the lens works at a specific design wavelength, but the scientists say it can be redesigned for use with broad-band light.

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  1. Francesco Aieta, Patrice Genevet, Mikhail A. Kats, Nanfang Yu, Romain Blanchard, Zeno Gaburro, Federico Capasso. Aberration-Free Ultrathin Flat Lenses and Axicons at Telecom Wavelengths Based on Plasmonic Metasurfaces. Nano Letters, 2012; 12 (9): 4932 DOI: 10.1021/nl302516v

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Mophie's New Battery Pack Is So Tiny, It Could Make Carrying It Around Less of a Hassle [Power]

A backup battery for your smartphone is useless without the necessary cables. So Mophie has built both a USB and a microUSB cable into its Juice Pack Reserve Micro allowing you to charge a myriad of portable devices—as long as they're not from Apple. More »


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Video: Obama leads in new NBC/WSJ poll

Stick a needle in the eye? DNA injection to slow vision loss

??Chelsea Crump is only a little bit worried about having a needle poked into her eye next month. Thanks to her brother, and a lifetime of having a rare genetic disease, she?s pretty sure of what to expect.

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Arctic Sea Ice Bottoms Out for 2012 With Record Low

Credit: NASA / Goddard Spaceflight Center

Last month, the extent of Arctic sea ice cover dropped below 1.6 million square miles, which was the record low set in the summer of 2007. But we knew the level would continue to drop into September. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), the Arctic set its minimum for 2012: 1.32 million square miles, which blows away the old record.

"The strong late season decline is indicative of how thin the ice cover is," NSIDC scientist Walt Meier said in a statement released to the press today. "Ice has to be quite thin to continue melting away as the sun goes down and fall approaches."

Satellite observation of the Arctic ice cover began in 1979. The total amount of cover cycles throughout the year, typically reaching its minimum in September before summer ends and ice begins to grow again. For more about how scientists track the extent and spread of ice cover at the top of the world, check out our briefer by PM's Jerry Beilinson.

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Who is more deserving of a Night of Champions rematch: Cena or Del Rio?

John Cena and Alberto Del Rio

John Cena and Alberto Del Rio are never on the same page, but both were seemingly in agreement that Night of Champions could have gone a whole lot better. The last-minute reinstatement of World Heavyweight Champion Sheamus? Brogue Kick would ultimately spell certain doom for The Mexican Aristocrat, while the controversial conclusion to the Cenation leader?s WWE Title bout with CM Punk ended in a draw ? with Punk retaining the title.

Now, Cena isn?t one to complain about circumstance. As Cena was pinning Punk at Night of Champions, his own shoulders were also flat on the mat, which resulted in a rarely seen double pinfall. Cena arrived on Raw with a purpose, not to chastise referee Chad Patton or to make excuses, but to give The Second City Savior an opportunity to definitively show he is ?The Best in the World? by granting Cena a WWE Title rematch that very night on Raw. Cena?s willingness to compete was admirable, especially considering that The Cenation Commander-in-Chief was likely still reeling from the previous night, when Punk laid out Cena by hitting him with the WWE Title itself.
(MATCH RESULTS | PHOTOS)

Meanwhile, Del Rio strolled into the Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, Conn., ready for a rematch as well. Feeling victimized by SmackDown General Manager Booker T?s reinstatement of Sheamus? Brogue Kick mere moments before the World Heavyweight Title Match at Night of Champions, The Mexican Aristocrat felt another World Heavyweight Title Match was owed to him.
(MATCH RESULTS | PHOTOS)

Not ?skipping? a beat, Raw General Manager AJ Lee restored order on the red brand, acknowledging that both Cena and Del Rio deserve second chances, and elected to combine both of the Night of Champions main events to create a tag team ?super main event? on Raw. At the end of the night, it would be Cena & Sheamus vs. Del Rio & Punk. Ms. Lee affirmed that a victory in this contest would go a long way in determining which Superstar is most worthy of another title match.
(PHOTOS | COMPLETE RAW COVERAGE)

It was Cena who would score a victory for his team by pinning Punk, thereby presumably bringing him one step closer to a WWE Championship opportunity. However, as Cena had Punk?s shoulders flat to the canvas, the official failed to notice the WWE Champion?s foot on the ropes ? a tactic that would have broken the referee?s count had the official seen it. Just 24 hours after a debatable call favored The Second City Savior, Cena reaped the benefits of controversial officiating.

The conclusion of AJ Lee?s ?super main event? raised many questions, but one immediately comes to mind: Is it John Cena or Alberto Del Rio who truly deserves a rematch in the wake of Night of Champions?

Cena failed to attain the WWE Title thanks to a fair? but debatable call by the official, but it?s arguable that the Cenation leader is far more deserving of a rematch. After all, in similar situations, championship bouts have continued after a draw. Want proof? Look no further than the 60-Minute WWE Iron Man Match between Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XII, which was ordered to resume after a time-limit draw (resulting in HBK?s first WWE Championship reign). Had AJ Lee made a similar ruling, Cena could very well be enjoying his 11th WWE Title reign.

But what of Del Rio? The egotist?s prime complaint on Raw was that the timing of Booker T?s reinstatement of the Brogue Kick on Sunday night was unfair, and that Del Rio was caught completely off-guard as he was getting ready to challenge The Great White for the illustrious World Heavyweight Title. If Del Rio had been prepared for Sheamus? signature maneuver ? and more importantly, if the Brogue Kick had remained banned ? Night of Champions might have been cause for celebration for the well-heeled Superstar. Then again, Sheamus similarly felled Del Rio with the Brogue Kick at Money in the Bank, and Del Rio had ample time to prepare for the maneuver on that occasion. There?s no concrete evidence that Sheamus and Del Rio?s Night of Champions bout would have gone any differently, Brogue Kick ban or no.

Nevertheless, it?s ultimately up to AJ Lee and Booker T to determine whether Cena or Punk ? or both or neither ? will receive title opportunities in the near future. But what does the WWE Universe think? To weigh in on this issue, take the poll by clicking here.

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Teachers' Expectations Can Influence How Students Perform

Teachers interact differently with students expected to succeed. But they can be trained to change those classroom behaviors. Enlarge iStockphoto

Teachers interact differently with students expected to succeed. But they can be trained to change those classroom behaviors.

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Teachers interact differently with students expected to succeed. But they can be trained to change those classroom behaviors.

In my Morning Edition story today, I look at expectations ? specifically, how teacher expectations can affect the performance of the children they teach.

The first psychologist to systematically study this was a Harvard professor named Robert Rosenthal, who in 1964, did a wonderful experiment at an elementary school south of San Francisco.

The idea was to figure out what would happen if teachers were told that certain kids in their class were destined to succeed, and so Rosenthal took a normal I.Q. test and dressed it up as a different test.

"It was a standardized I.Q. Test," he says, "Flanagan's Test of General Ability, but the cover we put on it, we had printed on every test booklet, said 'Harvard Test of Inflected Acquisition.'"

Rosenthal told the teachers that this very special test from Harvard had the very special ability to predict which kids were about to be very special ? that is, which kids were about to experience a dramatic growth in their I.Q.

After the kids took the test, he then chose from every class several children totally at random. There was nothing at all to distinguish these kids from the other kids, but he told their teachers that the test predicted the kids were on the verge of an intense intellectual bloom.

As he followed the children over the next two years, Rosenthal discovered that the teachers' expectations of these kids really did affect the students. "If teachers had been led to expect greater gains in I.Q., then increasingly, those kids gained more I.Q.," he says.

But just how do expectations influence I.Q.?

Researcher Robert Pianta offered these suggestions for teachers who want to change their behavior toward problem students:

  1. Watch how each student interacts. How do they prefer to engage? What do they seem to like to do? Observe so you can understand all they are capable of.
  2. Listen. Try to understand what motivates them, what their goals are and how they view you, their classmates and the activities you assign them.
  3. Engage. Talk with students about their individual interests. Don't offer advice or opinions ? just listen.
  4. Experiment: Change how you react to challenging behaviors. Rather than responding quickly in the moment, take a breath. Realize that their behavior might just be a way of reaching out to you.
  5. Meet: Each week, spend time with students outside of your role as "teacher." Let the students choose a game or other nonacademic activity they'd like to do with you. Your job is to NOT teach but watch, listen, and narrate what you see, focusing on students' interests and what they do well. This type of activity is really important for students with whom you often feel in conflict or who you avoid.
  6. Reach out: Know what your students like to do outside of school. Make it a project for them to tell you about it using some medium in which they feel comfortable: music, video, writing, etc. Find both individual and group time for them to share this with you. Watch and listen to how skilled, motivated and interested they can be. Now think about school through their eyes.
  7. Reflect: Think back on your own best and worst teachers, bosses or supervisors. List five words for each that describe how you felt in your interactions with them. How did the best and the worst make you feel? What specifically did they do or say that made you feel that way? Now think about how your students would describe you. Jot down how they might describe you and why. How do your expectations or beliefs shape how they look at you? Are there parallels in your beliefs and their responses to you?
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As Rosenthal did more research, he found that expectations effect teachers' moment-to-moment interactions with the children they teach in a thousand almost invisible ways. Teachers give the students that they expect to succeed more time to answer questions, more specific feedback, and more approval: They consistently touch, nod and smile at those kids more.

"It's not magic, it's not mental telepathy," Rosenthal says. "It's very likely these thousands of different ways of treating people in small ways every day."

So since expectations can change the performance of kids, how do we get teachers to have the right expectations? Is it possible to change bad expectations? That was the question that brought me to the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, where I met Robert Pianta.

Pianta, dean of the Curry School, has studied teachers for years, and one of the first things he told me when we sat down together was that it is truly hard for teachers to control their expectations.

"It's really tough for anybody to police their own beliefs," he said. "But think about being in a classroom with 25 kids! The demands on their thinking are so great!"

Still, people have tried. The traditional way, Pianta says, has been to sit teachers down and try to change their expectations through talking to them.

"For the most part, we've tried to convince them that the beliefs they have are wrong," he says. "And we've done most of that convincing using information."

But Pianta has a different idea of how to go about changing teachers' expectations. He says it's not effective to try to change their thoughts; the key is to train teachers in an entirely new set of behaviors.

For years, Pianta and his colleagues at the Curry School have been collecting videotapes of teachers teaching. By analyzing these videos in minute ways, they've developed a good idea of which teaching behaviors are most effective. They can also see, Pianta tells me, how teacher expectations affect both their behaviors and classroom dynamics.

Pianta gives one very specific example: the belief that boys are disruptive and need to be managed.

"Say I'm a teacher and I ask a question in class, and a boy jumps up, sort of vociferously ... 'I know the answer! I know the answer! I know the answer!" Pianta says.

"If I believe boys are disruptive and my job is control the classroom, then I'm going to respond with, 'Johnny! You're out of line here! We need you to sit down right now.'"

This, Pianta says, will likely make the boy frustrated and emotionally disengaged. He will then be likely to escalate his behavior, which will simply confirm the teacher's beliefs about him, and the teacher and kid are stuck in an unproductive loop.

But if the teacher doesn't carry those beliefs into the classroom, then the teacher is unlikely to see that behavior as threatening.

Instead it's, "'Johnny, tell me more about what you think is going on ... But also, I want you to sit down quietly now as you tell that to me,'" Pianta says.

"Those two responses," he says, "are dictated almost entirely by two different interpretations of the same behavior that are driven by two different sets of beliefs."

To see if teachers' beliefs would be changed by giving them a new set of teaching behaviors, Pianta and his colleagues recently did a study.

They took a group of teachers, assessed their beliefs about children, then gave a portion of them a standard pedagogy course, which included information about appropriate beliefs and expectations. Another portion got intense behavioral training, which taught them a whole new set of skills based on those appropriate beliefs and expectations.

For this training, the teachers videotaped their classes over a period of months and worked with personal coaches who watched those videos, then gave them recommendations about different behaviors to try.

After that intensive training, Pianta and his colleagues analyzed the beliefs of the teachers again. What he found was that the beliefs of the trained teachers had shifted way more than the beliefs of teachers given a standard informational course.

This is why Pianta thinks that to change beliefs, the best thing to do is change behaviors.

"It's far more powerful to work from the outside in than the inside out if you want to change expectations," he says.

In other words, if you want to change a mind, simply talking to it might not be enough.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/09/17/161159263/teachers-expectations-can-influence-how-students-perform?ft=1&f=1007

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