News & Analysis

As data centers grow in scale and strategic importance, investors face rising pressure to evaluate their environmental and social impacts through sector-specific, comparable metrics, according to Chris Pyke, chief innovation officer, GRESB.

Christina Gaw is determined to make Gaw Capital Partners’ relationship with Gulf markets about more than fundraising.

The pension is weighing one of its largest real estate deployments to date as part of an ongoing push for geographic diversification.

MA Financial will increase its total AUM by 20% through the deal, bulking up its core real estate equity business.

Inside: How the fundraising flux is reshuffling PERE’s ranking of the biggest private real estate fundraisers; Christina Gaw of Gaw Capital on the attraction of the Middle East; A UK roundtable; Plus, much more…

Outsized equity targets, and more time spent trying to reach them, contributed to a shakeup in the top echelons of PERE’s annual rankings.

The wave of consolidation changing the make-up of the PERE 100 and PERE 200 has made follow-on commitment decisions more challenging for investors.

Bigger equity targets, more time in market and M&A activity all had an impact on managers’ diminishing capital raising power.

The unsettled global situation has undermined the optimism surrounding UK real estate at the beginning of the year, but roundtable participants say the market’s comparative stability remains its strength.

This latest episode of The PERE Podcast examines the Chicago-based manager’s momentum and investors’ appetite for alternative property types.