Global Awards

Nominations and awards recognise the excellence of our activities or the contribution we make. Our peer group or independent judges are often responsible for these nominations and the judging of awards, which makes these endorsements critical to building and maintaining our reputation.

Global Pensions Property Manager of the Year 2010, 4 March 2010
ING REIM won the coveted Property Manager of the Year Award of the Global Pensions Magazine, beating major players in the market such as Blackrock, Aviva, CBRE Investors, Hermes and Standard Life.
We also won the award in 2006, 2007 and 2009, its testament to the reputation that we have as a truly global real estate pension provider. It is rewarding to know that this has been recognised by key decision-makers from major pension funds and their consultancies around the world

Global Pensions Property Manager of the Year 2009, 17 March 2009
The Global Pensions awards are presented annually by industry publication Global Pensions magazine. They are the only pension's industry service-provider awards that are judged on a global scale. The panel of judges represented key decision-makers from major pension funds and their consultancies around the world. We also won the award in 2007.

European Fund Manager of the Year 2008, Property Week Global magazine, 21 October 2008
ING's Real Estate Investment Management business was recognised as the best European property asset manager with more than EUR 70bn assets under management across office, retail, residential, and industrial investments. The award recognises funds that produce consistent investment performance and the best of what is available in the investment world. We were recognised for our detailed pan-European client-focused investment strategies.

IPD EuroProperty award for ING Dutch Retail Fund, 25 September 2008
The ING Dutch Retail Fund received the award for generating the highest three-year total returns relative to the ROZ/IPD retail benchmark to December 2007. The award is based exclusively on consistently measured investment performance as recorded in the Dutch ROZ/IPD Index.

Further awards won in 2008

Preservation Award for One First Street, Cambridge, MA, US, May 2008
The Preservation Award was received from the Cambridge Historical Commission in honour of the project’s outstanding achievement in historic preservation. The property in the Boston area of Massachusets was developed by ING Real Estate investment management and is an adaptive re-use of a complex of historic 100-year old buildings previously used as a furniture factory and more recently as a candy factory. Several of the buildings were preserved and renovated into residential condominiums together with new construction.

Asia Pacific Real Estate Investment Award, 10 April 2008
ING Real Estate Investment Management Asia was named Investor of the Year in the Company of the Year category. The awards are organised by asiacre.com, a leading commercial real estate media firm.