LPs need to be more united when facing GPs – even if it means telling fund managers to leave the room so they can talk privately. PERE magazine, November 2009.
3 min read · 21 January 2013
Zoe Hughes reviews the best quotes from the first day of the annual PREA conference, taking place in Beverly Hills.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Investing in a club structure, with a handful of like-minded investors, is preferable to the limited partnership model, according to a panel of large pension plans and sovereign wealth funds.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The US government has no plans to launch another "large-scale" bailout programme for the commercial property sector, but could help through TARP if the industry faces serious problems, the PREA conference was told today.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Quilvest, the Argentinean family office which made its money from the famous Quilmes beer brand, is taking its first steps into private equity real estate through the launch of a $250m fund of funds.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The Houston-based developer and fund manager has teamed with the real estate arm of the National Bank of Abu Dhabi as it seeks to increase its exposure to the region.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The US private equity firm has arranged a €172.5 million bank facility with Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
A 1994 RFP from the pension to invest in inner-city neighbourhoods received a single proposal – from a firm controlled by Victor MacFarlane, who has now ‘resigned’ as the manager of the closely watched California Urban Investment Partners.
3 min read · 21 January 2013
The London-based firm has teamed up with recently-formed M7 Investment Management as it seeks to purchase industrial real estate assets across the UK.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The London-based real estate investment management firm has hired Edmund Craston in a push to expand its fund management business.
1 min read · 21 January 2013