An investment firm part-owned by the Kuwait Investment Authority is eyeing China for returns of between 15%-19%.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
PERE has just hosted its third annual roundtable discussion in Asia. Among the revelations this year – local capital is rising as a game-changing factor in the region. By Jonathan Brasse
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Despite Prudential Real Estate Investors' global heft, chief executive officer Allen Smith believes the firm is as nimble, and flexible, as any boutique operation. By Zoe Hughes
10 min read · 21 January 2013
Songbird Estates, the London office company in which Morgan Stanley Real Estate has a stake, has announced a major fundraising to help pay back a loan.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The sovereign fund, whose portfolio recently recouped some of the value it had lost in the past fiscal year, has not made clear how its private equity investment strategy may shift.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The Swiss-based firm has successfully closed on €275m for a global real estate fund. The firm aims to buy in both mature and emerging markets and has already bought eight investments in China for the vehicle.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Former MSREF global co head John Carrafiell has reportedly set up an advisory business. According to media reports, Carrafiell has formed Alpha Real Estate Advisors focused on board-level consultancies and advisory work.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The former SUN Real Estate, Cambridge Place and JP Morgan executive has been appointed to lead the firm’s real estate fund management business.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The Chinese sovereign wealth fund has held talks with BlackRock, Invesco and Lone Star as it looks to the US real estate market and distressed mortgage securities, according to the Wall Street Journal.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
LaSalle Investment Management and ING Real Estate Investment Management remain on a whittled-down shortlist to buy the management of the Wall Street Bank’s Asian Real Estate opportunity Fund and its other Asian real estate holdings.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
