A partnership between the $240bn pension system and the global real estate asset manager has generated a 60% IRR and $160m in profits. The fund closed after selling its office, residential and logistics projects in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
For the first time since the credit crisis, Aberdeen Asset Management has launched an Asia Pacific fund of funds vehicle, seeking out a range of strategies from core to opportunistic and targeting returns between 13 and 17 percent per year.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The $154bn pension system will also work to decrease holdings in opportunistic and value-add investments and reduce leverage in the portfolio.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The firm has formed of a value-added UK fund that invests in Central London offices. In addition, its European core real estate fund has acquired a logistics property in Finland.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Hamburg-based ECE group has raised most of the equity for its first ever fund with a final close expected this summer. The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation is understood to be among investors in the prime shopping centre vehicle.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The break-up of ING continues with as the Dutch group sells out of its Australian property funds management business. Yesterday it completed the sale of its global securities business.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The real estate arm of Aberdeen Asset Management is looking to Sweden as the first in a country-by-country series of funds investing in residential property.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Shanghai and Switzerland-based firm wants to access the 'China success story' by launching a fund focussed on investments in one of its major cites, Shanghai.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Los Angeles-based real estate investment management firm has completed its purchase of ING Group’s global real estate securities business, ING Clarion Real Estate Securities. The deal forms part of its wider $940m acquisition of ING’s Real Estate Investment Management operations in Europe and Asia.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The mandate, which entails providing due diligence, acquisition, and brokerage services mainly on Asian and European properties for the newly restructured Global Growth Trust and Global Income Trust, gives the private equity real estate firm a fresh capital source to execute deals.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
