The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board said today its real estate assets now reflected 9.1% of its total C$152.3bn of assets.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
A trio of real estate executives at the PERE Forum: New York agreed that investment opportunities within the distressed real estate debt space are steadily increasing.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The New York-based retirement fund has been steadily working toward expanding its footprint in the investment management space, according to its head of global real estate Thomas Garbutt.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The London-listed property services firm has selected UGL as preferred bidder to buy the embattled company. If a deal happens it would create the third largest property services firm globally.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Morristown, New Jersey-based real estate fund manager is seeking $500 million for a value-added vehicle to target office properties in New York, Boston and Washington DC.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
The Madrid-based firm Drago Capital and an unnamed North American institutional investor have bought Royal Bank of Scotland’s 50 percent interest in three buildings that Drago helped acquire in July 2008.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
International private equity real estate firms operating in China are today seeing better deals as liquidity tightens in the country, but they need capital if they’re to take advantage.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
Major corporate pension fund invests with Pramerica for a UK ground rent strategy amid ‘growing trend’ of investors moving away from traditional products, such as index-linked gilts and corporate bonds.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
US tax authorities have significantly reduced the risk of sovereign wealth funds losing their tax-exempt status should certain trading restrictions be breached.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The Sao Paulo-based real estate investment management firm has reached its hard cap for its second real estate fund.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
