The Connecticut advisory firm has invested in secondaries deals worth $1bn since 2003 from its fund of funds coffers.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
AEP Investment Management, the Singapore-based real estate investment management firm, has co-launched a global investment company aimed at buying data centres with Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Allan Moss will advise the Sydney-based special situations private equity firm.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The $55m Mexico-listed fund raised by WAMEX – which will compliment a traditional fund, targeting $65m – is the first in a wave of expected offerings allowing domestic pensions to invest in the asset class.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Forum Partners, an otherwise low-profile firm that provides growth capital to property companies, made headlines when it acquired the real estate securities platform from Citi. PERE spoke with chief executive Russell Platt about how that deal got done, Forum’s runway to growth and his early days in the bull pen with John Grayken. By Robin Marriott.
10 min read · 21 January 2013
Jonathan Edmunds becomes a director at the boutique European advisory and investment firm WW Advisors having previously worked in the corporate advisory services team at Lazard bank.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
One of Japan's largest private equity firms fired the partner upon learning of an investigation by authorities. The partner, identified as Kenichi Kiso by an LP, passed away the following day.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Dan Teper has been hired by RBC Capital Markets to help expand the bank’s US real estate investment banking group. Teper was previously managing director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Co-head of Europe Charles Maudsley is joining UK REIT British Land. Meanwhile, Axa Real Estate Investment Management's global head of asset management Stephen Smith is also joining the London-based company.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Representatives from the £13 billion Wellcome Trust and the UK Financial Services Authority testified before the UK House of Lords Tuesday about the potentially painful impacts from EU fund manager regulations, including loss of access to funds and marketing restrictions. House members said they would address such concerns in upcoming meetings with the European Commission.
3 min read · 21 January 2013