The charitable foundation of Jeremy Coller, founder of UK secondaries firm Coller Capital, has made a ‘multi-million pound’ commitment to help create a private equity education and research institute at London Business School.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Real estate prices are set to decline by up to 25 percent in developed markets, according to Townsend co-founder Kevin Lynch. However he said there were plenty of opportunities amid the distress, telling PERE at the ExpoReal conference in Munich that investors were increasing their allocations to the asset class.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Private equity investors looking to finance infrastructure projects in Australia may soon have a new competitor after the Australian government agreed to accelerate the creation of its Building Australia Fund.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The Ukrainian private equity firm will invest $15m in Fresh, a growing supermarket chain, from its $132m Emerging Europe growth fund. Its second Emerging Europe growth capital fund is targeting $300m.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The recommendations come as the region finds itself with rising infrastructure investment needs and limited public capital resources to meet them. Private finance initiatives, a type of PPP financing arrangement, have so far only accounted for 1 percent of the UKs total spend on such projects.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Dominique Senequier, speaking at a recent press lunch, listed ageing infrastructure, regulation and new services among the drivers of growing infrastructure investment needs in OECD countries. Developing Asian economies also face steep financing challenges but offer more attractive returns.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Canton Property Investment has revealed its founder and executive chairman Keng Wong is ‘uncontactable’ as it also admitted to funding problems. Shares in the company, which is developing real estate projects in a southern part of China, have been suspended.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The US firm says Peru offers opportunities to develop residential, retail and office property and is one of the fastest growing real estate development markets in the world. It has hired a Lima-based former financial advisor.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
In the same week as it agreed to buy a 21 percent stake in Morgan Stanley for $9bn, Mitsubishi has struck a deal to buy a minority stake in Aberdeen. It gives the Japanese bank exclusive rights to market Aberdeen’s products in Japan, while providing Aberdeen with a fresh well of equity in the world’s second largest pension market.
3 min read · 22 January 2013
American International Group will retain core business lines while entertaining the divestiture of all remaining units. The embattled insurance company plans to sell as many assets as necessary to repay its $85bn loan from the US government.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
