Limited partners urged to start serious discussions with GPs about portfolio and asset valuations, as institutional investors attempt to choose tomorrow’s winners.
3 min read · 21 January 2013
Dutch real estate investment manager turns to inside talent to replace Nick Cooper as head of ING Real Estate Select
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The Swiss alternatives manager has more than doubled the size of its previous global secondaries fund, closed in 2006.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The joint venture fund management platform of Mumbai-based Samsara Capital and London-based Catalyst Capital, will target ‘affordable’ residential developments in India’s tier I cities. He told PERE’s Jonathan Brasse in an interview for the PERE Yearbook 2009.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Bids that came in for the private equity stakes were not ‘on par with the value of the assets’, the endowment’s CEO John Powers told PEO in an interview.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Scott Lawlor, founder of the troubled private equity real estate platform, will roll out a residential strategy ‘imminently’. But he insists to the New York Times Broadway’s problems were bad timing and the severity of the crash – not leverage.
3 min read · 21 January 2013
Mansco Perry, the chief investment officer of the Maryland State Retirement Agency, says the pension system views real estate as a long-term asset class, still wants real estate fund managers … but wants fees to come down. By Robin Marriott
3 min read · 21 January 2013
The West coast debt shop is set to acquire Lehman Brothers Real Estate Mezzanine Partners I and II following 'many months' of negotiations. PCCP will open an office in New York to help deal with the fund workouts.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Barry Sternlicht, CEO of Starwood Capital, warns the US government's bailout programmes are not needed in today's markets as capital looks to the asset class in the search for yield.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The Oregon Investment Council has asked Wesley Edens, principal and co-chairman of Fortress Investment Group, to review the firm’s fee structures.
3 min read · 21 January 2013