The Swiss alternative asset manager‘s executive chairman Alfred Gantner said 'the time is back when you’ve got to invest'.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The employee pension of Spain’s second largest bank will start investing 5 percent of its €2.1bn pension fund in alternative assets.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
A report from PricewaterhouseCoopers describes an increased LP appetite for real estate, particularly in Asia, but also warns that one-fifth of investors are looking to decrease their exposure to the asset class amid a shrunken asset base.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Sports Venture Partners, a private equity firm founded by ex-NFL player Jim Flanigan and former Redskins marketing director John Wagner has closed its first real estate-focused fund of funds.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The $7.3 billion Arizona Public Safety Personnel Retirement System is looking to significantly increase its exposure to real estate across the US and internationally.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The $121 billion CPPIB today argued before US lawmakers that it should not be lumped in with all sovereign wealth funds, as legislators in California attempt to bar the US’ largest pension groups from investing in private equity funds tied to sovereign wealth funds.
3 min read · 22 January 2013
The firm’s European fund has acquired a portfolio of office properties scattered across the country.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
PERE's sister news service PEO interviews Alberto Torrico, the California assemblyman who recently introduced a proposed law that would force the state’s public pensions to cease ties with firms that are partially owned by certain sovereign wealth funds. Torrico tells PEO he is particularly targeting alleged human rights abuses in the United Arab Emirates, and that the objections voiced by pension investment staff are “overstated, exaggerated”.
6 min read · 22 January 2013
Some of Europe's biggest investors have thrown their weight behind industry efforts to create and expand a performance index.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The unrelenting rise of sovereign wealth and a promising outlook for MENA private equity funds were among the key talking points at PEI’s Middle East Private Equity Forum in Dubai.
3 min read · 22 January 2013
