San Diego-based Pacifica Equity Partners looks to distressed residential deals and senior housing in US sunbelt states.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The private equity real estate fund has closed its first institutional property vehicle focused on developments in emerging markets of Asia and Eastern Europe. The fund is almost 90 percent invested, mainly in Russia and Turkey.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The former private equity chief at Starr, Collin Lau, has reportedly joined China’s sovereign wealth fund to head its real estate investment funds. He is expected to join the fund by the end of the year or early 2009.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The Asia-focused buyout firm has wrapped up fundraising more than $1bn shy of its original target.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The sale of the power company comes a week after Temasek said it had scrapped the auction, citing unfavourable market conditions. It has now sold all three of its power companies in 2008 for a sum of S$11.7bn.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The Chinese sovereiegn fund has reportedly hired Zhou Yuan, former China head of global investment bank UBS.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The Chinese sovereign fund has reportedly hired Zhou Yuan, former China head of global investment bank UBS to lead its real estate and private equity funds.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The firm’s new $2.9bn emerging markets fund allowed LPs to cherry-pick specific regions and countries, a savvy structure given changing investor sentiment, writes Amanda Janis.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The European private equity real estate group will raise a fund of funds focused on retail, commercial and residential developments in second and third tier cities in India and China. ING hopes to hold a $250 million first close early 2009.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The US-based growth investor has brought on Fernando Marques Oliveira as managing director to spearhead the firm’s ramped-up investment activity in Latin America. General Atlantic last month invested in Brazilian healthcare insurance group Qualicorp.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
