China's largest life insurance company has led a consortium to acquire 280 select-service hotels from Starwood which will remain as the asset manager to the portfolio.
2 min read · 19 October 2016
The Los Angeles-based property services advisor said global investment in the asset class this year is set to break 2015’s record of $47 billion, according to the firm’s H1 data.
2 min read · 12 October 2016
The Japanese insurer’s decision to create an alternatives division follows sister company Japan Post Bank’s move last December to establish a private equity division, as part of its efforts to diversify beyond domestic bonds.
1 min read · 29 September 2016
The German insurer has appointed Rushabh Desai as head of its Asia Pacific operations.
2 min read · 01 September 2016
A quadruple Chinese joint venture plans to invest $1bn to develop a biotechnology and life sciences campus.
2 min read · 22 August 2016
The insurer announced the first of at least two mandates this year in a bid to diversify its real estate investments.
2 min read · 08 July 2016
The Swiss investment bank plans to invest the capital primarily in Italy and secondarily in the wider Eurozone.
2 min read · 06 July 2016
The investment manager has followed Standard Life Investments, Aviva Investors and M&G Investments in halting redemption requests for its open-ended UK property fund, meaning that now £13bn of UK property is under lock and key.
2 min read · 06 July 2016
M&G Investments, the investment arm of UK pension fund Prudential, becomes the third firm in two days to suspend real estate fund trading following Standard Life and Aviva.
2 min read · 05 July 2016
The global asset management platform of UK insurer Aviva becomes the second UK insurer since Monday to suspend trading citing ‘extraordinary market circumstances’ following the Brexit decision.
2 min read · 05 July 2016
