Ohio’s $8.5bn pension says its priority is to monitor existing fund manager relationship – but also look for re-up opportunities. PERE Magazine, November 2009.
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The Hong Kong and mainland China financial services business has closed on the first $100m for its incoming $250m real estate opportunity fund.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Hudson Realty has hired ex-Citigroup and Lehman Brothers CMBS specialist Precilla Torres as the firm pushed further into securitised debt opportunities. PERE magazine, November 2009
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Zoe Hughes reviews the best quotes from the first day of the annual PREA conference, taking place in Beverly Hills.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Investing in a club structure, with a handful of like-minded investors, is preferable to the limited partnership model, according to a panel of large pension plans and sovereign wealth funds.
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The bill includes an exemption for Small Business Investment Companies as well as venture capital firms, and raises the minimum threshold for assets under management from $30 million to $150 million.
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The US government has no plans to launch another "large-scale" bailout programme for the commercial property sector, but could help through TARP if the industry faces serious problems, the PREA conference was told today.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Quilvest, the Argentinean family office which made its money from the famous Quilmes beer brand, is taking its first steps into private equity real estate through the launch of a $250m fund of funds.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The US private equity firm has arranged a €172.5 million bank facility with Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The real estate lender has filed for bankruptcy protection. Sponsors KKR, Five Mile and Goldman Sachs are set to record one of the biggest private equity losses in history.
2 min read · 21 January 2013