Managers

PensionDanmark and SamPension are both backing the Northern Europe-focused vehicle as first-time investors with the Copenhagen-based manager.

The manager acquired a non-controlling stake in a US portfolio assembled by public REIT Safehold, which has options to reacquire it after seven years.

The manager has secured more than $650m across a global program focused primarily on GP-led secondaries but seeded with an LP-led fund portfolio.

The executive at the Houston-based manager believes the vehicles are problematic not just for investors but for the industry overall.

If met, the fundraising goal for the manager’s latest flagship vehicle would place it among the largest single-sector funds ever raised.

San Francisco-based TPG is acquiring grocery-anchored strip mall specialist ECHO Realty in partnership with Norwegian wealth fund NBIM and Canada’s PSP and La Caisse.

The firm partnered with Vancouver-based Concert Properties on a 50:50 venture involving a 5 million-square-foot Canadian logistics portfolio.

Michael Humphrey is tasked with opening an office in Singapore while working with his team across two offices in Tokyo and Seoul.

Founded by former Black Creek and Ares execs, Speed Bay Warehouse Solutions has scored $250m from BDT & MSD to acquire multi-tenant warehouses.

Utah-based manager, acquired by Apollo last year, exceeds the value-add vehicle’s $1bn target – and raises quadruple the capital of its predecessor fund.