The China Investment Corporation launched a recruitment drive recently as it expands overseas, but only wants Chinese Communist Party members that are good at keeping secrets. PERE Magazine September 2010 issue
1 min read · 24 January 2013
Blackstone is piloting a new interactive LP portal that will allow investors to delve into the firm’s performance data across asset classes, geographies and sectors like never before. It will also allow LPs to import data from other GPs into the Blackstone system. PERE magazine Fund Administration supplement, September 2010
8 min read · 24 January 2013
A lack of industry reporting standards have resulted in LPs receiving a hugely divergent amount and type of information from each of their GPs. Is it time for some industry standards? PERE magazine's Fund Administration supplement September 2010
7 min read · 24 January 2013
GPs and private equity real estate fund administrators are under pressure from all sides with increased LP reporting requirements, greater regulation, higher taxes and even more complex deals. The challenges being faced today are part of the natural evolution of an institutional asset class. PERE magazine's Fund Administration supplement September 2010
10 min read · 24 January 2013
Firm strikes property deal with German retail chain Aldi and declares it plans another €200m of investment in the country by the end of the year
1 min read · 24 January 2013
The New York-based firm has joined forces with Glimcher REIT to buy the 1.2m sq. ft. retail centre from Northwestern Mutual Life investing roughly $56m of equity in the deal.
1 min read · 24 January 2013
Despite trying to sell itself to third parties, the real estate investment arm of the Dutch insurance group has hired Bruno Cohen as CIO of its Paris office.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
US firm exits the majority of its investment in Belgium's Immobel, which it first made in June 2007
1 min read · 24 January 2013
TPG, formerly known as the Texas Pacific Group, is making a push into real estate using its latest private equity funds – TPG Partners V and the gargantuan TPG Partners VI, which raised $18.8 billion in 2008.
1 min read · 24 January 2013
Trustees for the mortgage bond holders insist the mezzanine debt players have to repay the $3bn senior loan before being allowed to foreclose on the 80-acre multifamily complex in Manhattan.
3 min read · 24 January 2013
