The UK mid-market firm has reunited with the management team behind Optimum Care and Avery Healthcare to create a new care home company, which will develop new nursing and dementia care homes and buy existing assets.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The city will look to invest in domestic infrastructure funds after making an initial investment in the asset class earlier this year and taking a beating in its US equity allocation.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The firm’s real estate investment trust is making the acquisition. It is the second retail property acquisition in the UK for CBRE Realty Trust.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The largest commercial property lender in Germany and one of the largest in Europe is merging its European structured finance team, likely to lead to 10 job losses.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The oldest buyout firm in France will go to market in January to raise the successor to its €150m small-cap fund raised in 2006. Meanwhile, its latest mid-market fund, reportedly targeting €1.2bn, will close before the end of the year.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The London-based financial services group is hoping to tap the UK, United Arab Emirates and investors from the wider Gulf region to target property in Abu Dhabi.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The size of the infrastructure opportunity is almost unfathomable. It is screaming out for private investors.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
In light of Duke Street’s recent run in with the UK Pensions Regulator, buyout firms face the prospect of being forced to make up pension shortfalls, write Richard Garvan and Andrew Patten.
3 min read · 22 January 2013
The student accommodation fund operated by the UK's UNITE Group has £30 million of asset sale proceeds in the London branch of Landsbanki, the Icelandic bank that has plunged into a form of administration. The firm says it is doing all it can to recover the money.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The head of alternative assets for UK pension Universities Superannuation Scheme says portfolio write-downs coupled with the denominator effect have made fundraising tough. Yet many GPs saw this coming, and raised plenty of dry powder ahead of the storm, he says.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
