The start-up firm Almacantar has bought Centre Point next to London’s busiest shopping street, with a loan provided by Eurohypo.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
The alternative investment management business of Deutsche Bank has won a KRW500bn separate account mandate to invest in core markets around the world from Samsung Life Insurance. The mandate brings RREEF’s capital under management in Asia to the $3bn mark.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
Bruce Feldman will leave his post as director of alternatives at the $25.5bn pension on 17 June.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
Sean O'Shea and Kyung Paik have departed from the New York-based multi-manager
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Warburg Pincus will partner with Lemon Tree Hotels to launch Oceanus Real Estate, a joint venture focusing on affordable housing projects in India.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
Looking to raise $750m from tens of thousands of retail investors, the publicly registered vehicle will invest primarily in open-ended, core and core-plus property fund managers. However, the model could be expanded to closed-ended, value-added and opportunistic GPs in the future.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
Goldman Sachs’ Whitehall funds are used to criticism nowadays, but their involvement in the first major IPO of a European real estate company in several years deserves some credit.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
Asieh Mansour has been appointed head of Americas research at the brokerage and real estate services firm, departing the property investment arm of Deutsche Bank after 13 years.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
The listed firm has identified 1,200 potential LPs, which it will try to recruit into its funds. Blackstone has collected $15bn for its sixth private equity fund, and has just launched fundraising for its next real estate vehicle.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Jessica Hoffman Brennan will join former Credit Suisse private equity and real estate executives Michael Arpey and Alok Gaur on Carlyle’s investor relations team, which now has about 20 staff.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
