The professor 2006-11-01 Staff Writer MBA candidates enrolled in Arthur Segel's class at Harvard Business School would do well to pay attention. After all, the professor teaching the Real Property Asset Management course at the famed university did not get to his position by writing thick tomes on economic t
1 min read · 23 January 2013
The Singapore sage 2006-11-01 Staff Writer Dr. Seek Ngee Huat likes to keep a low profile. Unfortunately, sometimes he doesn't have much of a choice. As the head of the real estate program at one of the most powerful institutional investors in Asia and beyond, Seek is among the most-watched property investor
2 min read · 23 January 2013
The frequent flier 2006-11-01 Staff Writer James Quille has always been a man on the move—and for good reason. The firm he currently heads, Macquarie Global Property Advisors, is one of the most active foreign players in Asia, a region that Quille himself has been investing in since the early 1990s.<br
1 min read · 23 January 2013
The internationalist 2006-11-01 Staff Writer In close to five years at the California Public Employees' Retirement System, Mike McCook transformed the largest pension fund in the US into a global powerhouse among institutional investors in real estate. Though he left his post earlier this year, McCook's infl
1 min read · 23 January 2013
The lynchpin 2006-11-01 Staff Writer Under the watch of K. S. “Sonny” Kalsi, Morgan Stanley has become one of the largest players in Asian real estate, with a reach that extends across Japan, India and China.<br /> <br /> Kalsi rose to prominence during his eight-year stint in Tokyo, where he b
1 min read · 23 January 2013
At a gathering in New York today, delegates at PERE’s North American Private Equity Real Estate Forum heard frontline accounts of the globalization of the industry from Morgan Stanley’s Jay Mantz and Starwood’s Barry Sternlicht.
3 min read · 23 January 2013
The US private equity firm is spending £410m on a central London office building.
1 min read · 23 January 2013
The theme of the fall 2006 event was “Back to Basics,” but attendees nevertheless found time to discuss emerging markets and distressed debt.
3 min read · 23 January 2013
On the heels of recent residential and IT investments, Trikona Capital has announced a JV to invest in a mixed-use township center in Thane, Mumbai.
2 min read · 23 January 2013
San Francisco-based placement agent Probitas Partners, fresh from fundraising for the debut vehicles for KSL and Benson Elliot, is beefing up its real estate team.
2 min read · 23 January 2013
