Interview

ESR: The fundraising powerhouse you (might) not have heard of

ESR’s Jeffrey Perlman is not focused on global domination. The firm’s ‘laser focus’ on Asia-Pacific will do just fine.

John Grayken’s approach to staying ‘a step ahead of the market’

Lone Star’s founder sees a limited window for distressed investing while most wait for private real estate market conditions to settle.

Simon Treacy’s contrarian bet on China

CapitaLand’s CEO of private equity real estate is looking beyond China’s geopolitical issues as he grows the firm’s funds business.

Catella’s new fundraising head plans global investor push

The Stockholm-based manager aims to broaden its client base and evolve its product offerings with the hire of a former JLL managing director.

Palladitcheff: ‘If I didn’t solve these problems, someone else would have to’

In little more than three years of leading Ivanhoé Cambridge, Nathalie Palladitcheff has created a blueprint for success for the C$77bn investor and its C$400bn parent, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. We spoke with her as she received PERE’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Ivanhoé Cambridge: The need for collaboration in ESG

Alignment of interest on ESG performance is key to engage with the entire real estate value chain, say Ivanhoé Cambridge’s Stéphane Villemain and Xuchao Wu.

BlackRock: ‘What’s driving our business now is picking individual assets’

Anne Valentine Andrews, global head of infrastructure and real estate at BlackRock, says investors should prioritize specific properties within secular trends in the current volatile market environment.

Blackstone’s Meghji: ‘When someone calls with $4bn of capital, you answer the phone’

The US endowment’s commitment into the manager’s BREIT fund announced last week is a ‘win-win’ for both sides and an absolute ‘home run’ thanks to the extra liquidity and flexibility it provides, Nadeem Meghji, Blackstone’s head of real estate Americas, told PERE.

LOOK AHEAD 2023: We’ve moved further into the baseball game

However, Ronald Dickerman, founder of Madison International Realty, thinks private real estate’s secular repricing is still several quarters away.

Laura Hines-Pierce: ‘We do pipeline calls weekly; the tone of those calls has changed’

Hines’ co-CEO returned from maternity leave in September to find a private real estate market in markedly different shape. She shares the experience with PERE.