Olivier Lecler has been appointed CEO of Société Générale Asset Management’s alternative investment platform.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Private equity firms must better voice the benefit of their activities to pensioners in order to combat assaults by unions, such as the US’ SEIU, New Mountain Capital managing director Michael Flaherman told the PEI Investor Relations and Communications Forum in New York today.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
US House Ways and Means Committee chairman Charles Rangel has again introduced a bill that would attempt to tax carried interest as personal income after dropping an identical provision last December.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The Chicago-based real estate investment firm has closed its LaSalle Income and Growth Fund V, a value-added fund targeting US properties affected by the capital market dislocation.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The San Francisco-based private equity real estate secondaries firm appoints former Redwood Trust mortgage specialist John Arens as director.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The financial services firm has hired Rodney Montag as executive managing director to lead Cantor Real Estate alongside Andrew Stark. The group plans to launch a real estate opportunity fund targeting distressed land holdings and development projects.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Wilson Lee, the former UBS and Lehman Brothers real estate professional, has joined ING Real Estate Investment Management in Europe to lead the firm’s new opportunity fund business in the region.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Tatiana Bosteels has joined the UK property fund manager from the London Climate Change Agency as pressure mounts on firms to incorporate responsible investing principles within property portfolios.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
New York hotel group, Morgans Hotel, is the newest partner in a JV between private equity real estate firm Normandy Real Estate Partners and Ames Hotel Partners to redevelop Boston’s first skyscraper into a boutique hotel.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Anthony Heredia, a former HSBC Asset Management pro, has been appointed the new CEO for Morgan Stanley Investment Management in India.
1 min read · 22 January 2013