A recent survey from Coller Capital and the Latin American Private Equity & Venture Capital Association found that a majority of LPs will either increase or stand pat on commitments to Latin American funds over the next year.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The Sydney-based logistics real estate developer and investment manager has now forged a tie-up with the Abu Dhabi Investment Council with a view to investing more than $1 billion in the major logistics markets of Japan.
3 min read · 17 January 2013
With the platform’s 2008, $557m AEW Value Investors Asia just three investments from wrapping up, plans are afoot for a successor fund to hit the market early next year. Meanwhile, the firm is searching for a new MD after Peter Wittendorp span out a team earlier this summer.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The China-focused private equity real estate firm led by Texan Tom Delatour has raised $170 million for its first fund, Century Bridge China Real Estate Fund.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The largest US public pension plan has repeated a sizeable commitment to the private equity real estate funds of Singapore’s ARA Asset Management. PERE Magazine September 2012 issue.
1 min read · 17 January 2013
The Canadian pension fund has increased its exposure to Goodman’s China business in a bid to get closer to the country’s burgeoning consumer base. The total amount committed by the partners has now reached $1 billion.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
Despite the global slowdown and ‘deteriorating’ Chinese outlook, the real estate firm Pacific Star Group, says investors will continue to invest in the region, highlighting the retail sector in general and also offices specifically in Singapore and Bangkok.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
Qatar Investment Authority-owned investment company Qatar Holding has purchased almost a quarter of the Hong Kong-based private equity and real estate firm further diluting the ownership by CITIC Holdings subsidiaries and sovereign wealth fund CIC.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The Zug-based private markets investment firm described in its latest research how it is placing its current real estate investing emphasis on investments in debt and secondaries, both direct and indirect, as it avoids a “herding mentality”.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The ex-head of China at Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (MSREI) has received a sentence of nine months in prison for evading the internal controls of the platform’s Wall Street bank parent and for violating the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
3 min read · 17 January 2013