The Zug, Switzerland-based private equity real estate firm used the announcement of Steffen Ricken’s hire from IVG Institutional Funds to suggest it would add a core and core-plus investment focus to its strategies.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
The state’s municipal retirement plan approved two commitments of $100 million each to Blackstone’s first Asia-focused fund and its latest real estate debt fund.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
The real estate arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System has invested again in central London, this time forming a 50:50 venture with the Crown Estate to develop a mixed office and retail property off Regent Street.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
MassMutual’s Cornerstone Real Estate Advisors is a good bet as the next firm to grow in the private real estate investing space through a large corporate acquisition.
3 min read · 28 August 2013
In a first venture of its kind, LaSalle Investment Management and Dutch pension fund asset manager APG are targeting whole loan development finance for the London residential and UK student housing sectors.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
The global placement agent has hired a new principal out of San Francisco (pictured) and a new vice president out of London.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
The first-ever institutional fund raised to invest in the Russian property market has returned 2.1x money to its investors.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
New York-based multi-strategy private equity investment firm Siguler Guff & Company has committed to the latest fund of the London-based private equity real estate firm specialising in retail deals.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
Greenwich, Connecticut-based Starwood Capital Group reportedly is stepping in to provide refinancing to the 46-story Heron Tower in London’s financial district.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
America’s largest pension plan has agreed to acquire an interest in the Metropolis shopping center in Moscow, three months after Morgan Stanley acquired the property in the largest-ever commercial real estate deal in Russia.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
