The Connecticut advisory firm has invested in secondaries deals worth $1bn since 2003 from its fund of funds coffers.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The pension, with about $13bn in assets, has invested $40m in mezzanine funds managed by Merit and Peninsula. The pension came under its spending goal for private equity in fiscal ‘09.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Allan Moss will advise the Sydney-based special situations private equity firm.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The $55m Mexico-listed fund raised by WAMEX – which will compliment a traditional fund, targeting $65m – is the first in a wave of expected offerings allowing domestic pensions to invest in the asset class.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Forum Partners, an otherwise low-profile firm that provides growth capital to property companies, made headlines when it acquired the real estate securities platform from Citi. PERE spoke with chief executive Russell Platt about how that deal got done, Forum’s runway to growth and his early days in the bull pen with John Grayken. By Robin Marriott.
10 min read · 21 January 2013
Jonathan Edmunds becomes a director at the boutique European advisory and investment firm WW Advisors having previously worked in the corporate advisory services team at Lazard bank.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The current real estate crisis will be worse than the RTC of the 1990s, but a recovery will not gain ‘traction’ until late 2011 or 2012, according to the latest economic trends report from ULI and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The latest sentiment survey from the US real estate lobby group, the Real Estate Roundtable, finds that confidence is rising in the industry – but there is still a ‘grim sense of reality’.
3 min read · 21 January 2013
The high returns of the boom years have been replaced by another ‘R’ word: risk, according to a series of white papers by Ernst & Young. Real estate companies should now be focused on capital sources, reevaluating their business model and managing global risk.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The Greenwich, Connecticut firm aims to make investments in “middle market property companies underserved by the investment banking communities”, according to a market document seen by PERE.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
