PERE is reporting on an increasing number of senior executive moves within the private equity real estate sector. At last week's PERE Forum: Europe conference in London we spoke to Ghada Sousou, chief exectuive officer of London and New York based recruitment specialist Sousou Partners to find out why.
1 min read · 24 January 2013
PERE hears the views of Dean Hodcroft, Ernst & Young's head of real estate, hospitality and construction for Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa, on just how involved limited partners should be in the investment decision-making processes of their fund managers. Hodcroft spoke on the sidelines of last week's PERE Forum: Europe conference in London.
1 min read · 24 January 2013
The Townsend Group principal Adam Calman talks about how his firm's investors are tackling the question of what investment structure works best. He shares this thoughts on various models Townsend is adopting on the sidelines of last week's PERE Forum: Europe.
1 min read · 24 January 2013
Pramerica Real Estate Investors has recruited Eric Adler, the joint head of Europe for Tishman Speyer, to spur its growth in the region
2 min read · 24 January 2013
Thomas Barrack reportedly admits the timing of the US casino operator’s $5.4bn take-private in November 2007 was poor, telling Bloomberg Markets the firm was now focused on smaller, unconventional deals.
3 min read · 24 January 2013
CB Richard Ellis executive director Robin Hubbard tells PERE on the sidelines of last week's PERE Forum: Europe 2010 why opportunity funds in the UK will find 20 percent returns hard to attain in the current market.
1 min read · 24 January 2013
Unilever pension fund makes commitment of more than €70 million to the ING Dutch funds of ING Real Estate Investment Management’s European business. Unilever switched from investing in real estate directly to indirectly in January 2009.
1 min read · 24 January 2013
ING Real Estate Investment Management, which is currently in the process of being sold, has agreed to sell the last assets of its Real Estate Office Fund of The Netherlands (REOFN) portfolio to a joint venture of Dutch family offices and Middle Eastern institutional investors.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
Just as the eagerly anticipated World Cup in South Africa has been labelled something of an anticlimax, so has the eagerly anticipated wave of real estate debt supposedly emanating from the banks.
3 min read · 24 January 2013
The US firm has won a commitment from Dutch pension fund asset manager, APG, which hasn’t invested in a private equity real estate fund in Europe for nearly three years
1 min read · 24 January 2013
