The number of global property purchases has increased for the first time in 15 months with $62.8bn of sales during Q2 – up 17 percent compared to the previous quarter, according to Real Capital Analytics. Distress though remains 'alarmingly' high with $233bn of property now in trouble.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Korea Investment Corporation’s move into private equity is good news for GPs in a fundraising drought.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Fundraising for Asia-focused funds may have stalled, but it has less to do with Asia than it has to with a slowdown in the pace of investments globally, writes Siddharth Poddar.
9 min read · 21 January 2013
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2 min read · 21 January 2013
UK asset manager Threadneedle has secured a debt facility from two banks for its open-ended property fund.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Public pensions from Oregon and New Jersey are among those aruing the proposed bank ownership rules, on which the FDIC votes this week, could 'slow the healing' of the financial sector.
3 min read · 21 January 2013
The desire to replace the GP is running high in some partnerships, but actually doing so is technically and politically difficult
3 min read · 21 January 2013
Focus DIY, a UK home improvement retailer trying to avoid administration, is set to halve £12m in potential property costs in a deal that demonstrates the flexibility landlords are showing to circumvent vacancies.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The $36.9bn endowment is reportedly planning to sell some of its holdings in private equity, hedge funds and other money managers to bring more capital in-house and be more ‘nimble’.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Now a London-based private equity real estate firm, Delancey, throws its hat into the ring in the battle to take control of a portfolio of UK industrial properties in receivership.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
