Asia-Pacific

Senior executives at two of Canada’s biggest institutional real estate investors said they expected state intervention to prevent the developer’s $300bn debt pile from becoming a global issue.

The market proved to be one of the most covid-resilient in 2020, thanks to the strength of its domestic investors.

The firm has hired a former real estate executive from Macquarie ahead of making its first direct investments and opening a potential office in the country.

The pandemic drove Australia into its first recession in a generation in 2020.

Fundraising figures are encouraging as the region adapts to covid-changed conditions.

The collapse of Blackstone’s acquisition of Soho China is a hammer blow to already wobbling international investment confidence in the country, and a reminder that state interventions supersede all.

The US real estate investment firm has attracted Asian capital for the first time in the 13-year history of the fund series.

Whitehelm founder Graham Matthews will lead the infra business with the aim of growing it to between €15bn-€20bn in the medium term.

Anyone monitoring sentiment among Asia’s most prominent institutional investors would not have failed to notice an upswing in recent weeks in positive commentary toward making ESG-compliant investments. On Monday, GIC’s CIO for fixed-income, Liew Tzu Mi, underscored the Singapore state investment firm’s intention to prioritize investments that either adhere to, or are subject to plans […]