DR. SEEK NGEE HUAT 2008-05-01 Staff Writer Being the head of the real estate program at one of the most powerful institutional investors in Asia, Dr. Seek Ngee Huat is one of the most-watched property investors in the world. With GIC active in Asia, European and American markets, his influence has a global r
2 min read · 22 January 2013
MICHAEL NIELSEN 2008-05-01 Staff Writer “Solid, thorough and conservative in approach and in character,” is how one European fund manager describes Michael Nielsen. Conservative he may be, but he has grown in influence over recent years as Denmark's largest pension fund has diversified from Danish real estat
2 min read · 22 January 2013
SUSAN MEANEY 2008-05-01 Staff Writer When Mike McCaffery left the $14.3 billion (€9 billion) Stanford endowment, Stanford Capital – the third largest university endowment in North America – to set up on his own it created headlines around the globe. Stanford was third only to Harvard University and Yale, and
2 min read · 22 January 2013
TIMOTHY HOEPPNER 2008-05-01 Staff Writer As foundations go, the MacArthur Foundation has become well known in real estate circles. With a collection of $1 billion (€629 million) of direct-owned real estate, the fund is a big player in the asset class. It also invests indirectly in real estate funds, with $30
2 min read · 22 January 2013
GLORIA GIL 2008-05-01 Staff Writer Being compared to a sovereign wealth fund has to be one of the highest honors achievable in the world of limited partners. For Gloria Gil, she has achieved that accolade in the two years since joining the University of California's Treasurer's Office. Previously at the $42
2 min read · 22 January 2013
ALAN FORMAN 2008-05-01 Staff Writer Eighteen years. That's how long Yale University's director of investments for real estate has been at the university's $23 billion (€14.5 billion) endowment – the second largest university endowment in the US. Alan Forman, property investments chief, is a long-time Yale ve
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Theodore Eliopoulos 2008-05-01 Staff Writer Reigning over the $16 billion (€10 billion) real estate portfolio of the largest public pension in the US, Theodore Eliopoulos has a monumental task at hand. But the task seems less monumental in the hands of this real estate veteran, who began his career as a
2 min read · 22 January 2013
Susan Doyle 2008-05-01 Staff Writer General Electric has been called many things during its 130-year history, one of the most telling its comparison to an 800lb gorilla. From light bulbs to television sets and jet engines, GE is undoubtedly one of the world's leading companies and has been at the cutting e
2 min read · 22 January 2013
MIKE DIRE 2008-05-01 Staff Writer In real estate investing, experience is critical, and Mike DiRe, director of real estate for the $175 billion (€110 billion) California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) has had many years of experience in real estate and finance. The Sacramento native was previous
2 min read · 22 January 2013
By the numbers 2008-05-01 Staff Writer <bold>LINING UP THE FIGURES</bold><br /> <italic>A graphic representation of the 2008 PERE 30 shows two firms that have raised disproportionately large amounts of capital over the past five years, followed closely by a large cluster of next tier
1 min read · 22 January 2013
