The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has followed up its first investment in Hong Kong a couple of months ago with its first in Japan via a $500m JV with Singapore-listed Global Logistics Properties.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Rahul Ghai has been hired by the real estate investment management business of Deutsche Bank having previously worked at Standard Chartered Bank, Istitmar, and Jones Lang LaSalle.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Chicago-based real estate investment management firm, which has made a name for itself building up companies in Brazil and Mexico, is now expanding its Latin American presence to Colombia.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Cleveland-based real estate advisory and investment firm has been 70 percent sold to Aligned Asset Managers, a portfolio company of Chicago-based private equity firm GTCR. As part of the deal, founding partners Terry Ahern and Kevin Lynch have agreed new five-year employment deals.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
The US Republican presidential candidate suggested in a televised interview this week that he is in favour of comprehensive tax reform, which includes how carried interest is taxed.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
The state’s $15bn oil and gas endowment has established a 10% real return allocation, which could include investments in timber and infrastructure, and has begun to look for an investment officer to direct the real return group.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
The Tokyo-based firm is going for its biggest fundraising yet for its Secured Capital Real Estate Partners V real estate opportunity fund. The firm, formerly known as Secured Capital Japan, could spend up to 40% of the vehicle’s equity in China.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Ved Prakash Arya leaves behind a wife and two children. Peers are already paying tribute, one contemporary describing him as "a pioneer" and "an inspiration".
3 min read · 18 January 2013
Weeks after appointing Pramerica Real Estate Investors’ acquisitions vice president Joji Thomas, the Hong Kong-based private equity firm has now hired its managing director for Greater China.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Dutch group has entered into a five-year partnership with a developer to build apartments for first-time buyers in Macau, an area heavily dependent on gambling and tourism.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
