Europe’s biggest institutional real estate investor has kick-started its third-party equity management business on home turf and with familiar partners.
3 min read · 16 September 2019
The Italian insurance giant has launched its first property credit vehicle and is aiming to build a €3bn loan book within three years. Nunzio Laurenziello, who is leading the strategy, tells us why.
6 min read · 12 September 2019
Insurance companies like the Italian giant are capitalising on institutional demand for real estate lending strategies.
3 min read · 30 August 2019
Allianz’s real estate business will aim to add a new strategy every year to reach its goal of $100bn AUM by 2024, says chief executive Francois Trausch
5 min read · 29 August 2019
The Italian insurer is planning to open the platform to third-party investors and raise an additional €500m over the next two years.
3 min read · 10 July 2019
Generali and Allianz are the latest groups seeking to raise and invest external capital, but making the transition has its challenges.
8 min read · 08 May 2019
Sidecars have become popular for investors looking to right-size their portfolio and for managers in need of capital. But there is little uniformity in how they are arranged.
10 min read · 06 February 2019
The Singaporean manager’s third Asia-Pacific value-add fund has closed above its initial target.
3 min read · 23 January 2019
Institutional investors must figure out whether their Europe strategies should be broad or differentiated in 2019, argues Will Rowson, head of Europe at advisory firm Hodes Weill.
3 min read · 28 December 2018
