The former Principal Real Estate Investors managing director has joined Rockwood Capital as managing director in an effort to help the San Francisco-based firm deploy its $964m eighth fund.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The Los Angeles-based real estate investment firm has hired Richard Bosworth, who has a background managing non-performing hotel and casino loans, to oversee its hospitality investments.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Robin Hubbard is joining the London office of Los Angeles-based property services firm CB Richard Ellis to help tap clients interested in equity commitments to limited partnerships, joint ventures, or club deals.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Leo van den Thillart, a former global co-head of private funds group at Bear Stearns, has joined Canadian firm Brookfield Asset Management to help with international equity raising and client services.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The Ohio Public Employees Retirement System has hired former director of investments for the New Hampshire Retirement System, Richard Shafer, as deputy director of investments for external management. His role involves executing the pension fund’s private equity and real estate strategies.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
John Gellatly is quitting BlackRock for the UK insurer Aviva where he will be in charge of the firm’s multi–manager business in Europe.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Principals from Carlyle, Macquarie, RREEF and Industry Funds Management gathered today cautioned that market will not develop across America’s ‘fifty little countries’ without strong leadership from the government in creating incentives for private investment in infrastructure.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The $200bn sovereign wealth fund is shifting around its senior investment officers as it reorganises its investment departments.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Lisa Feifer, who spent two years at Lehman Brothers as director of investor relations assisting Lehman Brothers in Europe to fundraise, has joined Europe’s Orion Capital Managers in the London office. The news comes as it emerged that Gerald Parkes, the head of Lehman’s private equity real estate business in Europe, is leaving the company this month.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
A new complaint from the New York attorney general’s office details the allegedly corrupt economic bond between Aldus Equity’s Saul Meyer and political operative Hank Morris, whose relationship ultimately became strained to a point where both created vivid epithets for each other.
3 min read · 21 January 2013
