The Indian real estate fund manager has hired six senior managers to its team for large scale real estate and infrastructure projects.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The US investment bank has acquired a 5.5 percent stake in the company, which develops residential and leisure communities.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Old Mutual Investment Group is showcasing a new $500 million Indian real estate fund at the world’s largest property conference in the south of France this week.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
PERE's sister news service PEO interviews Alberto Torrico, the California assemblyman who recently introduced a proposed law that would force the state’s public pensions to cease ties with firms that are partially owned by certain sovereign wealth funds. Torrico tells PEO he is particularly targeting alleged human rights abuses in the United Arab Emirates, and that the objections voiced by pension investment staff are “overstated, exaggerated”.
6 min read · 22 January 2013
The unrelenting rise of sovereign wealth and a promising outlook for MENA private equity funds were among the key talking points at PEI’s Middle East Private Equity Forum in Dubai.
3 min read · 22 January 2013
As real estate investors such as Sam Zell’s Equity International scout opportunities in Libya, a project in the seaside resort of Janzour has received a €55 million development finance facility, the first of its kind in the country.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
With $10 billion in fresh powder for global real estate investment, Blackstone is adding to its Asian firepower with a Hong Kong office, president Hamilton James has told PERE.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The private equity firm is looking to capitalize on opportunities from increasing global demand for the natural resource.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
An Ethos Private Equity and Goldman Sachs consortium has run into regulatory difficulties in its acquisition of casino group Gold Reefs after securing funding in problematic credit markets in September.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
PERE looks back at the year just passed for the trends that mattered most. Today we look at trend number one – public real estate investment trusts held great attraction for well capitalized private equity real estate firms.
2 min read · 22 January 2013