Real estate was the most popular real asset class among institutional investors polled by AMP Capital, with 72 percent of respondents saying they were most likely to increase their allocation in the next year.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
A growing direct real estate portfolio in Brazil is a major reason that Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund has decided to establish its first Latin American location, for which it recently hired initial property staff.
3 min read · 28 August 2013
Google’s keynote speech at the PERE Summit Europe this week underlined how private equity real estate firms need to be ready to accommodate changing worker and consumer habits.
3 min read · 28 August 2013
Early evidence of capital arriving in Europe from the A$1.5 trillion Australian superannuation industry arrives as a $A60bn fund picks Henderson Global Investors for an emerging UK retail property strategy.
3 min read · 28 August 2013
Peggy DaSilva will be working as a managing director with the Los Angeles-based real estate investment management firm’s US separate accounts team.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
Pierre Cherki, head of alternatives and real assets at Deutsche Bank Asset & Wealth Management, said the bank is looking at a number of higher-yielding strategies given the ‘significantly higher interest’ among investors since the beginning of the year.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
Lee Neibart of AREA Property Partners talks with PERE about becoming part of Ares Management.
4 min read · 28 August 2013
The real estate investment arm of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec has purchased the Wells Fargo Center in Seattle’s financial district as part of its partnership with Callahan Capital Properties.
1 min read · 28 August 2013
After hearing how Google was thinking about its real estate needs, panelists on the first day of PERE’s annual European conference emphasized the importance of wrapping their strategies around competitive occupiers, following strong labor pools and identifying industry clusters.
2 min read · 28 August 2013
The New York investment bank, along with a Dubai-based investment firm, are selling a 40 percent stake in 767 Fifth Avenue in a deal that eclipses Carlyle’s recent sale of 650 Madison.
1 min read · 28 August 2013