Andrea Stephen of Cadillac Fairview talks about some of her favorite emerging markets, as well as investments in her own backyard of Canada.
4 min read · 22 January 2013
Kenny Tse, a veteran of the investment bank’s real estate research team in Asia, has joined Aetos as the head of Chinese property.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
In a startling development, a soon-to-be established state investment company of the People’s Republic of China will make a $3 billion investment in Blackstone as the alternative investment giant prepares to go public. Blackstone’s Schwarzman is calling the deal a ’paradigm shift in global capital flows’.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Witnesses at a US House committee hearing agreed that the booming private equity industry is not at fault for America’s growing divide between the rich and poor. Opinions diverged, however, as to how best address this phenomenon.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Following similar moves in other emerging markets, the bank’s real estate special situations fund is buying into a Polish developer to gain exposure to the country’s burgeoning property market.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The property arm of the New York-based hedge fund has filed documents for a $200m publicly traded REIT focused on investments in real estate debt.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Half of UAE-based Khaleej Finance and Investment’s $200m Indian private equity fund will go into the country’s real estate sector.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has struck a knockout blow in the battle for UK health and beauty chain Alliance Boots this morning, after sweetening its bid to £11bn and increasing the stake it controls to about 25 percent.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Morgan Stanley makes its first investment in Brazil via the acquisition of a minority stake in Abyara, a Sao Paolo-based real estate company.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The private equity real estate firm has acquired a portfolio of primarily New York City restaurants, as well as formed a joint venture with the restaurants’ owner, BR Guest, to develop new eateries for its hotel portfolio.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
