The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has tapped former Goldman Sachs rainmaker Alain Carrier to lead private investments from its second international office opened this year.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The European Property Investors Special Opportunities fund will target pan-European investment opportunities arising from the current dislocation in the market.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The fund, targeting real estate developments in the Greater China regions of China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, is the firm’s second Asia-focused vehicle.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The $41.7bn retirement system expands its emerging managers program to include private equity and real estate firms, allocating 10 percent to the asset classes.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
In a sign of the returning health of US REITs, the iconic New York building has been snapped up by New York-listed Boston Properties, setting a record in the process as the most paid ever for a US office block.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The UK finance provider’s full-year fiscal profits climbed 8 percent as banks continue to suffer from the credit troubles.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
US firms with international operations are raising debt funds in Europe in the hopes there will be enough supply to satisfy them.
3 min read · 22 January 2013
Following hot on the heels of the Dublin firm’s first private equity real estate fund, which closed on €400m this week, the firm is working on a second fund of roughly the same size.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Electra Partners has raised £100m to deploy in areas including real estate alongside the capital of its main client, Electra Private Equity plc, as the latter returns to fully-blown private equity investment.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Italy's Pirelli Real Estate has handed responsibility for raising its first ever European opportunity fund to Olivier De Poulpiquet.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
