A recent poll of institutional and private investors has revealed that a number of participants are scaling back their private equity commitments and planning to stay out of the market for the near term.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Russian steelmaker Novolipetsk Steel will pay the buyout firm less than half the maximum possible damages for withdrawing from the $3.53bn acquisition of John Maneely, a deal struck last August.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
After struggling to secure financing for its equity fund, LRG Capital Real Estate Fund I, the Larkspur, California-based private equity real estate firm decided to launch its own debt origination vehicle.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
A recent poll of institutional and private investors has revealed that a number of participants are scaling back their commitments to alternatives and planning to stay out of the market for the near term.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
After substantial yield compression across Europe, real estate investors are told to track the “behaviour” and “direction” of the markets over the next 12 months before making investment decisions.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Natixis Capital Partners has closed its third fund on €420m for investment into corporate real estate in Benelux, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The French bank's real estate asset management group is taking advantage of a change in domestic laws allowing it to access a wider pool of capital, not just French retail investors.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The $97bn pension, which has seen the value of its assets plunge by about $30bn since last summer, increased its upper limit allocation ceiling to the asset class to 7 percent from 5 percent in December to alleviate over-weighting.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
2008 was the worst year in the history of the Government Pension Fund. Norway’s ministry of finance said the results were not ‘satisfactory’. Last year, the fund was given the go-ahead to increase its real estate allocation to 5% and has since been building up its expertise in the field.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The private equity firm, which took the real estate broker private in a 2007 deal valued at $8.5bn, has agreed to financially support the company to help it meet its debt obligations and avoid default for at least the next 12 months.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
