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OTPP disbands Asia real estate team amid regional retrenchment

The Canadian investor will transition oversight of its Asia real estate investments to its headquarters in Toronto by the end of 2026.

CIM Group holds first close on debut impact fund focused on US affordability crisis

CIM-BGV Impact Ventures, a partnership between the manager and entrepreneur and financial literacy advocate John Hope Bryant, will fund the preservation and construction of low-income housing.

LŌ-GOI Group expands into Europe with French developer

The Singaporean firm is raising capital to deploy in France, with plans to expand in Asia once founder Trent Iliffe’s non-compete with ESR concludes.

Clarion Partners appoints EMEA distribution lead, eyes M&A

The US manager has made a key hire to help fulfill an ambition to double its assets under management in Europe in the next five years.

CPP’s van Oosterom: ‘We’d like to get something more out of our real estate allocation’

The Canadian pension’s real estate head said an increased focus on alpha has myriad implications for how it invests in the asset class.

Blackstone real estate chief Kathleen McCarthy to step down

The mega-manager’s global co-head of real estate is leaving after 15 years, placing Nadeem Meghji into sole leadership of its $320 billion property business.

TA Realty’s Strope: ‘So much of data centers is so little understood’

One of private real estate’s hottest sectors is also one of the most opaque, according to speakers at the PERE America Forum.

The rise and rise of take-privates

Short-term and increasingly passive public markets aren’t always the right fit for major transformations, particularly those being driven by trends such as decarbonisation and AI.

Modelling public-private exposure

Do customisable models incorporating both public and private markets exposure represent the next step in the democratisation of alternatives?