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
The $238 billion pension system has contributed to two vehicles, sponsored by ARA Asset Management, which will target real estate investment opportunities in China and Asia.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The preeminent sovereign wealth fund of the United Arab Emirates is in talks to make its first real estate investment in the UK since 2007 with the purchase of a distressed hotel portfolio for a reported £620 million.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The Swiss global private markets investment management firm has bought into the HK$2.37bn acquisition of the Novotel Nathan Road hotel in Kowloon by JV Hong Kong-based Gaw Capital Partners and CSI Properties.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
SC Management's RECAP III is understood to be oversubscribed thanks to strong performances from the Hong Kong and Singapore-based private equity real estate firm’s previous two funds.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), which manages more than $3 trillion of China’s foreign exchange reserves, is helping Blackstone towards its $13 billion hard cap for its latest real estate opportunity fund.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The $69.42 billion pension plan has committed $200 million to a new real estate separate account with Och-Ziff Capital Management and also plans to allocate up to $120 million to SC Management’s latest Asia real estate fund.
3 min read · 17 January 2013
