TY - BOOK TI - Finance - special report T2 - Property Week PY - 2002/// KW - ACTUARIES KW - PROPERTY INVESTMENT KW - BANKS KW - PROPERTY-COMMERCIAL PROPERTY KW - PENSION FUNDS N2 - Special report consisting of two articles."The number crunchers" looks at the central role of actuaries in deciding how much money institutional investors put into investments such as commercial property. "Balancing act" describes the increasing willingness oflending banks (dubbed equity banks) to take equity stakes and often operational control in companies and asks whether the risk is worth it ER -