The real estate investment management arm of property services firm Cushman & Wakefield has won a mandate from Swedish pension Alecta Investment Management to manage a portfolio of offices and warehouses in France.
1 min read · 24 January 2013
A group of UK real estate investment professionals have teamed up to form Talisman Capital, an investment firm set up to capitalise on the ‘current weakness in the UK property market’.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
INREV concludes from its 2010 Investment Strategies questionnaire that there has been a shift ‘down the risk spectrum’, with investors in unlisted funds preferring to concentrate on core property for diversification and income generation sake
3 min read · 24 January 2013
PERE’s Jonathan Brasse was yesterday taken on a personal tour of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Read all about it.
3 min read · 31 January 2013
A state-run finance hub is planning a package of fee cuts in a bid to attract REITs and property funds in invest in the emirate. However, property experts warn it might not be enough to warrant the risk.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
PERE’s Jonathan Brasse reports from the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
3 min read · 24 January 2013
Keith Harris is returning to the global property services firm’s capital markets team having spent two years with First London Securities investment bank
1 min read · 24 January 2013
George Rizk and Matthew Coleman will lead the firm’s new workout and restructuring group, to be called DE Shaw Real Estate Advisors.
1 min read · 24 January 2013
Amid 5,000 pages of documents released by CalPERS, it was revealed Capmark paid Credit Suisse a one-time fee of $27m for one fund, while RLJ paid Presidio $10.6m for two vehicles, including $1.7m for CalPERS' commitments.
3 min read · 24 January 2013
A placement firm run by a former board member of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System has received far more in fees from the pension than any other placement agent, according to FOIA documents.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
