Morgan Stanley’s $2.7bn haul for its ninth global opportunity fund is significantly lower than the series’ biggest fundraising. But given how close it came to extinction, the series is moving in the right direction.
3 min read · 05 January 2018
As traditional fundraising cools, institutional fund managers are lining up to access retail capital through the strategy
4 min read · 02 January 2018
How much should institutional investors allocate to emerging market real estate and infrastructure? To answer, let’s first consider three challenges to conventional asset allocation. Firstly, our simplistic view of risk is misleading. While banks and other intermediaries are concerned with short-term investment performance, and so also asset price volatility and liquidity, most savers and institutional investors […]
3 min read · 29 December 2017
Trinity Investments chief executive Sean Hehir predicts the uptick in visitors to Japan ahead of the 2020 Olympics will boost the hotel landscape long-term.
2 min read · 28 December 2017
As Greystar, the US’s largest rental housing company, continues to expand internationally, executive managing director Wes Fuller says he expects more interest from both investors and residents in purpose-designed professionally-managed rental housing.
2 min read · 26 December 2017
As regulatory curbs on both onshore and offshore Chinese entities continue, investors would have to adjust their outbound investment strategies in the coming year, according to Henry Chin, head of research for Asia Pacific at property consultancy CBRE.
3 min read · 25 December 2017
Strong first fund performance sees the Hong Kong-based private equity firm blast past the $365m raised for its 2015 debut effort in only its first closing.
2 min read · 18 December 2017
Norges Bank Real Estate Management has invested $823m for a 70% interest in a Tokyo office and retail portfolio.
2 min read · 08 December 2017
The former Invesco executive Graeme Torre has replaced Sachin Doshi as head of APG Asset Management’s private real estate platform in Asia Pacific.
2 min read · 05 December 2017
The world’s largest pension fund has hired Sony Computer Science Laboratories to look into incorporating artificial intelligence in its investment operations.
2 min read · 05 December 2017
