Karsten Kallevig, chief investment officer for real estate at Norges Bank Investment Management, told an audience in London last night how the NOK3,494 billion sovereign wealth fund does not want to see its equity returned in five years, thereby excluding opportunity funds from its initial investment thesis.
3 min read · 17 January 2013
The Greenwich, Connecticut-based firm, led by Barry Sternlicht, is targeting between $2 billion and $3 billion for Starwood Distressed Opportunity Fund IX and is offering management fee breaks for the first time in its history.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
Patrick Wu, a director in CIC’s real estate division, is slated to take the top job as incumbent Collin Lau enters a transitional period ahead of a switch to the $400 billion state fund’s private equity division.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
Deutsche Bank is conducting a strategic review of its €516bn global Asset Management group, which could lead to a sale of RREEF’s global real estate arm, DB Private Equity, and RREEF Infrastructure.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
The Dutch group has entered into a five-year partnership with a developer to build apartments for first-time buyers in Macau, an area heavily dependent on gambling and tourism.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The C$153.2 billion Canadian pension plan saw its real estate assets under management grow 0.9% to 8.2% of total assets in the last quarter alone, thanks to something of a investing spree.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Six months after determining it would commit up to $1.2 billion of equity commitments to real estate value-added and opportunity funds, Korea’s largest institutional investor has made four commitments to managers deploying strategies in North and South America.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The preeminent sovereign wealth fund of China revealed in its 2010 annual review it had ‘essentially fully invested’ its initial $200bn of state equity culminating in increased investments in real estate among other alternative asset classes.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
In its annual report for the year 2010/2011, the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation said its exposure to real estate had increased from 9 percent to 10 percent over the year, nudging the sovereign wealth fund’s alternative assets up 1 percent to 26 percent of total assets.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Hamburg-based ECE group has raised most of the equity for its first ever fund with a final close expected this summer. The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation is understood to be among investors in the prime shopping centre vehicle.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
