Despite the huge potential in the Indian property market, serious concerns about pricing, supply-and-demand fundamentals and infrastructure remain. Has the hype outpaced the reality on the ground? By Aaron Lovell
7 min read · 22 January 2013
After almost two decades of existence, the private equity real estate industry has seen its fair share of influential personalities. But going forward, who are the rising stars that will further shape the evolution of the asset class? PERE presents a few possibilities.
10 min read · 22 January 2013
Pierre Vaquier, a 14-year veteran of insurance giant AXA, has taken the helm of its institutional real estate firm, AXA REIM, and is set to announce a major strategy overhaul later this month.
6 min read · 22 January 2013
Real estate cowboy 2007-06-01 Staff Writer US football star Michael Irvin is known for a lot of things. For one, he spent more than a decade playing for the Dallas Cowboys, where the wide receiver played a critical role in the team's three Super Bowl victories in the 1990s. Playing alongside fellow Cowboys T
3 min read · 22 January 2013
When a town loves a woman 2007-06-01 Staff Writer Some might argue it's an idea long overdue. A town in China— a country where, at this point, no idea is too out there— has plans to become the world's first “women's town,” according to a recent dispatch from Reuters.<br /> <br /> According to t
2 min read · 22 January 2013
In the October 2006 issue of Private Equity International, we produced a selection of the 30 most influential lawyers in global private equity. Here, we remind our readers of some of the legal world's most valued practitioners.
3 min read · 22 January 2013
Andrea Stephen of Cadillac Fairview talks about some of her favorite emerging markets, as well as investments in her own backyard of Canada.
4 min read · 22 January 2013
Kenny Tse, a veteran of the investment bank’s real estate research team in Asia, has joined Aetos as the head of Chinese property.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
In a startling development, a soon-to-be established state investment company of the People’s Republic of China will make a $3 billion investment in Blackstone as the alternative investment giant prepares to go public. Blackstone’s Schwarzman is calling the deal a ’paradigm shift in global capital flows’.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Witnesses at a US House committee hearing agreed that the booming private equity industry is not at fault for America’s growing divide between the rich and poor. Opinions diverged, however, as to how best address this phenomenon.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
