The $80 billion state investment board has invested in BREP VII, as well as hiring Heitman to manage a $20 million separate account.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
Robert-Jan Foortse, head of non-listed European property investments at APG, told PERE in October that it was seeing a good pipeline of deals in both unlisted funds and the listed sector. He also said the Netherlands-based pension administrator, which oversees the assets of Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, was seeking to back tried and tested operators. PERE Magazine, December 2011, January 2012 issue.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
L’Établissement de Retraite Additionnelle de la Fonction Publique (ERAFP), which looks after the pension interests of 4.7 million French civil servants, could invest around 1 percent of its current annual inflow of €1.5 billion in the asset class each year.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Aviva Investors and Secured Capital have confirmed the launch of their blind pool investment club alongside early equity commitments from Aviva Investors’ parent, the London-based Insurer Aviva, and Dutch pension fund manager, PGGM Investments
3 min read · 18 January 2013
IVG Immobilien argues that Fukushima has changed the German energy infrastructure landscape, creating opportunities for real estate investors to plug into the space. IVG is the latest in a growing list of real estate companies and fund managers turning their attention to infrastructure.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
There’s a parallel between what happened in the world of heavy metal music in the late 1990s and what is happening in the world of private equity real estate today.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
If you are contemplating raising a fund, you need to read this. Alan Pardee, globetrotting managing partner of Mercury Capital Advisors, explains what he is finding out on behalf of GPs looking for capital.
5 min read · 18 January 2013
Columbus Capital Management, the value-added fund manager of London-based Schroders’ real estate investment and asset management business, has already deployed half the total equity raised.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The New York-based financial services firm plans to match the amount of capital it raised for its first European opportunity fund in 2008.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
One of the highest profile figures in European private equity real estate is leaving German insurance company Gothaer for Austria’s largest real estate firm chaired by the country’s former prime minister.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
