ING Real Estate wins pension fund

LONDON (Reuters) - ING Real Estate said on Tuesday it had won one of the UK's biggest property investment contracts, a 560 million pound advisory mandate by the West Midlands Metropolitan Pension Fund. The 8 billion-pound pension fund, which manages the retirement savings of public sector workers in England's second city, Birmingham, and its surrounding area, had previously used property services firm Cushman & Wakefield to manage its UK property holdings.