Asia-Pacific

Starwood’s Pollack: Insurance capital and cloud investments to shape firm’s RE growth

The PERE Podcast dials up a keynote interview with Starwood’s Jonathan Pollack to unpack how the firm is balancing forward investment plans, insurance capital relations and evolving geopolitical stressors.

LaSalle Investment Management on taking the open-end fund model road

LaSalle’s Craig Oram and Isabelle Brennan explain why an open-end debt strategy is a good fit in the current market.

Surviving an AI bubble: Goodwin Gaw’s private real estate resilience plan

In this episode of The PERE Podcast, Goodwin Gaw, co-founder of Gaw Capital, shares his insights on how real estate investors can capture the upside of AI-led growth, while staying defensive against its risks.

Regional retrenchment: ‘Financial engineering trumping local knowledge is over’

This episode of The PERE Podcast discusses ICG’s retrenchment from Asia, following a line of Western managers doing the same. We also speak to Goodwin Gaw, chairman of Gaw Capital, about his views on the current trend and the firm’s renewed focus on the region.

‘Rise of the stakers’: Why Japanese firms are buying up US and European managers

The PERE Podcast spotlights a slew of M&A deals involving some of the country’s biggest corporations staking their claims, featuring Patron Capital founder Keith Breslauer.

Gaw Capital to wind down US, Europe institutional businesses

The Hong Kong-based manager is ‘going back to our roots’ by emphasizing its pan-Asia strategies for institutional investors.

CapitaLand Investment plots next installments in Asia debt fund series

After raising Asian capital for a first debt vehicle, the Singapore-based manager is aiming to bring European and US capital into a second and third vehicle.

How commercial real estate credit’s next evolution is taking shape

The commercial real estate landscape is changing, with the importance of sector selection, niche strategies and mid-market lending set to come to the fore.

Morgan Stanley goes local with a $900m bet on Japan

The PERE Podcast spotlights the country’s continued emergence as a hot destination for institutional real estate capital, both domestic and international.