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
Why the sale of a stake in a £1.4bn loan book by Royal Bank of Scotland ended up as one for a debt fund, not an opportunistic real estate vehicle.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
Why the sale of a stake in a £1.4bn loan book by Royal Bank of Scotland ended up as one for a debt fund, not an opportunistic real estate vehicle.
3 min read · 30 January 2013
Beginning this quarter, the Chicago-based real estate association will publish an index based on income-producing properties in the US that have seen transaction movement. The index was originally published by the MIT Center for Real Estate.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania-based real estate asset management firm has acquired a six million square-foot portfolio of industrial distribution facilities across the Midwest and Southeast from Pinchal & Company.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The New York-based real estate sale firm has purchased 1.6 million square feet of self-storage properties in California, Illinois and Hawaii from A-American Self Storage for $86m.
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
