The Chicago-based fund manager has taken over the $700m Transwestern Securities Management platform, including its six-member team.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The UK Pension Protection Fund has hired LaSalle Investment Management and CBRE Investors as advisors as it continues a global push into alternatives
1 min read · 18 January 2013
Investors will ‘sacrifice’ returns and diversification if they overlook China, Brazil and India. However, targeting the three countries’ real estate markets demands a longer-term investment horizon and plenty of due diligence.
4 min read · 18 January 2013
Hines has lost control of the $724m National Office Partners account it ran for CalPERS, with LA-based CommonWealth Partners picking up the mandate. In December, LaSalle lost the $2bn CalEast industrial portfolio to GI, RREEF.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
HSBC is the latest global bank at which senior management in a captive private equity real estate business are separating out. It also is arguably the least well-known of them all.
4 min read · 24 January 2013
With year-end upon us, we examine some of the trends that have emerged this year and are likely to dominate 2011
3 min read · 24 January 2013
CalPERS has elected to do away with traditional allocation labels, may push for performance-based fees and prohibit consultants from also managing its capital. Is this a sign of bigger things to come?
3 min read · 24 January 2013
How Ireland’s recent woes caused US private equity firm TPG and UK partner Green Property to walk away from a €120 million property deal
3 min read · 24 January 2013
CalPERS has received numerous recommendations after a 'special review' of fees, including demanding all GP meetings take place at the pension's offices and not in 'expensive settings'.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
The £220bn US public pension system will allocate 63% of its assets to its ‘growth’ pool of public stocks and private equity holdings.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
