News & Analysis

This episode of The PERE Podcast features a wide-ranging interview with Keith Breslauer, as the Patron Capital founder stands on the brink of a new direction for the business.

The real estate arm of the Swedish private equity firm was previously among a handful of top managers without an executive in the key role.

The A$200bn Australian retirement fund has appointed an executive in London to lead valuations of direct infrastructure and property investments.

The investment will help the superannuation fund diversify its property holdings, particularly in the retail and industrial sectors.

The CIO of the UK pension scheme, with £36bn in AUM, believes commingled private market funds don’t typically offer sufficient value-add or alignment.

The investment is understood to be the pension fund’s first stake acquisition in a European real estate manager.

The New York-based business will specialize in leadership recruitment as well as the ‘purposeful restructuring’ of teams.

The New York-based manager, focused on the intersection of real estate and infrastructure, received investor commitments from both sleeves.

The PERE Podcast spotlights the country’s continued emergence as a hot destination for institutional real estate capital, both domestic and international.

The turnover of property chiefs at Canada’s largest pensions coincides with the investors’ declining allocations to the asset class.