Patricia Gerrick has resigned for undisclosed reasons after driving the state pension exposure to real estate and private equity to 5% respectively. The pension lost 14% of its value in the past year.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Emerging markets giant Actis is adjusting to life after the closing of its $2.9bn third fund by building up its IR and communications teams.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
These 15 firms have the skills and strategies to dominate the real estate wasteland, say market insiders. PERE Magazine September 2009.
10 min read · 21 January 2013
Churn continues at ING Real Estate Investment Managers as longstanding UK professional departs the Dutch firm.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Jeff Jacobson, the global chief executive officer at LaSalle Investment Management is moving from Europe to Asia to help the firm take advantage of ‘unprecedented’ opportunities. He will start work from the Singapore office effective from 1 January 2010.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Korea Investment Corporation’s move into private equity is good news for GPs in a fundraising drought.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Fundraising for Asia-focused funds may have stalled, but it has less to do with Asia than it has to with a slowdown in the pace of investments globally, writes Siddharth Poddar.
9 min read · 21 January 2013
UK asset manager Threadneedle has secured a debt facility from two banks for its open-ended property fund.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The desire to replace the GP is running high in some partnerships, but actually doing so is technically and politically difficult
3 min read · 21 January 2013
The $36.9bn endowment is reportedly planning to sell some of its holdings in private equity, hedge funds and other money managers to bring more capital in-house and be more ‘nimble’.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
