With concern mounting over inflation and future jobs growth, should investors eyeing the US start asking for a risk premium on their real estate investments?
3 min read · 18 January 2013
The $228.3bn public pension will target private core real estate through separate accounts focused on the US, as it warns commingled funds will be the investment vehicle of last resort.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The industrial giants reach a ‘definitive agreement’ to merge their businesses. The value of their combined assets under management is expected to be approximately $46 billion.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
The US and Brazil were leading a resurgence of transactions for the Americas with the region seeing a 166% increase in purchases and sales over the past year, compared to 11% increase in Europe and the Middle East and an 11% decline in trades in Asia Pacific.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
The real estate investment arm of the insurance giant is launching an industrial development vehicle focused on Brazil and retail development fund targeting China. The funds could be limited to a small number of large LPs.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The $11.7bn public pension is increasing its allocation for the next 12 months, after only deploying $40m in 2010.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
Mexico released statistics showing that fund managers raised more than $3bn from Mexican pensions to invest in private funds, including real estate-focused vehicles.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Swiss giant’s global expansion continues. New York-based Karin Hallin will head up a new office in São Paolo, Brazil.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Almost two-thirds of foreign real estate investors have billed the US as the top global market in which to invest, the highest level since 2000 and garnering six times more votes than second-placed China.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Investors will ‘sacrifice’ returns and diversification if they overlook China, Brazil and India. However, targeting the three countries’ real estate markets demands a longer-term investment horizon and plenty of due diligence.
4 min read · 18 January 2013
