Real estate, then private equity top the preferred investments among the 52 percent of respondents who do or want to commit to alternatives, according to a Bear Sterns report.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Unable to stabilise its financing, the credit-focussed affiliate of buyout giant The Carlyle Group has resigned itself to liquidation by creditors.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The $35bn Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System allocates further funds to RE after returning 22 percent from the asset class last year.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Wachovia Corp plans to sell more than 100 vacant branches to American Realty Capital Trust in 2008 with more expected to follow.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The Dutch firm has sold the Alcala Magna center to its own fund for €130m in a development-to-asset handover.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
ING Real Estate’s real estate equity management arm is the latest to redeem securities to help ease shareholders’ liquidity pains.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The property investment arm of the Government of Singapore is making an investment in Sintonia, the Benetton-backed entity that owns Aeroporti di Roma and controls Italian highway manager Atlantia.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
General Electric’s real estate investment arm sees continued opportunity in Japan’s property market.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Barclays Private Equity’s sale of women’s shoe company Kurt Geiger to Graphite Capital comes despite the worrying storm clouds gathering around the UK retail sector.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The alternative assets giant has issued a statement downplaying the damage credit-focussed Carlyle Capital Corporation may cause the overall franchise.
1 min read · 22 January 2013