Former Westbrook Partners exec, Suchad Chiaranussati, closes on approximately half its original target for its RECAP II fund.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
From a plan hatched in 2006, the sovereign wealth fund’s Real Estate Department (RED) has laid the foundations for a more direct real estate investment strategy that will see it assume more control over its capital outlays.
1 min read · 24 January 2013
Two longtime servants of DEGI are departing as part of the restructuring of the German property funds manager, which Aberdeen bought in 2008
2 min read · 24 January 2013
The country’s Ministry of Finance sets rules governing how the sovereign wealth fund will invest 5% of its portfolio in real estate. The fund can target unlisted funds but mainly in developed markets.
3 min read · 24 January 2013
Brookfield Asset Management has been named global firm of the year in the PERE Awards 2009. Normandy Real Estate Partners, Partners Group and MGPA have taken the titles in North America, Europe and Asia. Here we present a full list of the winners.
4 min read · 24 January 2013
The Georgia Department of Transportation has issued a request for qualifications for ‘West by Northwest’, a highway project aimed at easing congestion in the Metro Atlanta area. It is the first project being procured under a PPP bill signed into law last year.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
Improved access to the estimated $1tr Shariah-compliant pool of capital in the MENA region may spur more firms to switch to Islamic private equity funds.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
In an exclusive interview, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, president of the Party of European Socialists and ‘bogeyman’ to the private equity industry recently told Toby Mitchenall why he still sees the asset class as a destructive force.
6 min read · 24 January 2013
GPs who stuck to their investment script but still got caught out by market events should not be blamed, according to one LP at a recent PERE roundtable discussion in London.
2 min read · 31 January 2013
A new course will train real estate professionals in workouts and turnaround situations. PERE March 2010 issue
2 min read · 24 January 2013
