Oaktree Capital Management wasn’t looking for a partner when Brookfield Asset Management approached it about a deal. Founder Howard Marks talks Isobel Markham and Andrew Hedlund through the transaction, and what lies ahead for private markets
8 min read · 29 April 2019
It’s all in the timing, or is it? We speak with Howard Marks and Bruce Flatt about the deal that has everyone talking.
2 min read · 29 April 2019
In buying Oaktree and capturing its credit business, Brookfield now has capital to serve its clients at all times, its chief executive Bruce Flatt says.
9 min read · 28 April 2019
Long-term viability trumps short-term returns in a mature market as New Mountain Capital Partners’ oversubscribed first-time real estate fund demonstrates.
3 min read · 25 April 2019
Alex Jeffrey will replace Justin O’Connor, who departed last year, as head of the real estate investment manager.
3 min read · 24 April 2019
The new recruits will lead the US Cities Office Fund and US Cities Industrial Fund, which will launch in late 2019.
2 min read · 23 April 2019
The New York-based investment bank and newly-formed Stonyrock are the latest entrants into the booming sector of taking non-control positions in private markets managers.
3 min read · 23 April 2019
The New York-based firm’s oversubscribed debut fund, which is focused on industrial sale-and-leaseback transactions, raised $533m.
3 min read · 23 April 2019
Investors should expect some of their managers to make big bets in the UK property sector this year
3 min read · 18 April 2019
More than half of the $185bn raised in 2018 has already been deployed, a recent report by ANREV, INREV and NCREIF showed.
2 min read · 17 April 2019