The private equity firm co-founded by Edward LaPuma and Bryan York Colwell has raised capital for a US fund targeting credit-focused investments in corporate real estate.
2 min read · 04 September 2013
Weinberg Capital Partners, the Paris-based firm, is on course to meet its target of €150m to deploy in opportunistic and value add investments amid ‘economic turmoil’ in France.
2 min read · 04 September 2013
The Canadian pension plan has bought a 50 percent stake in eight central London offices for £173.9 million from the BT Pension Scheme and has formed a longer-term joint venture to gather more assets.
3 min read · 28 August 2013
The Swiss-based bank wants to diversify its capital sources to mitigate the ‘concentration risk’ of its current real estate investment management platform, stating it is too dependent on fresh capital in the US, Switzerland and Japan.
4 min read · 28 August 2013
A growing direct real estate portfolio in Brazil is a major reason that Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund has decided to establish its first Latin American location, for which it recently hired initial property staff.
3 min read · 28 August 2013
The Denver-based investment firm will make value-added investments in all property types across the US on behalf of the $62.2 billion pension plan’s new account.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
The first-ever institutional fund raised to invest in the Russian property market has returned 2.1x money to its investors.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
The real estate arm of GE and the Canadian pension fund will commit an initial $403 million to a Japanese joint venture targeting Tokyo offices. The JV marks CPPIB’s second real estate partnership in Japan.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
The $260 billion pension plan has selected the firm as a new manager for its multifamily real estate program. Meanwhile, another public institution has terminated its relationship with Invesco as one of its core real estate managers.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
Delegates at this week’s Global Investor Forum in Los Angeles were advised to pay heed to the increasing impact of the market’s smaller investors.
2 min read · 27 August 2013
