Sectors

‘Differentiation is critical’: Impact fund managers believe momentum will continue in 2025

Impact-related strategies bucked a downward trend for overall real estate fundraising last year.

StepStone Group on finding opportunities in market turmoil

Illiquid markets and overleveraged assets have opened a slew of GP-led secondaries deals, says Jeff Giller of StepStone.

Secondaries provides inroads to in-demand sectors

As high interest rates, depressed values and fluctuating markets continue to squeeze investors, real estate secondaries is flourishing.

Deep Dive: Rana Ghorayeb takes on CDPQ’s real estate reboot

Tasked with navigating the pension’s C$75bn property portfolio through a turbulent environment and the organization’s own unprecedented restructuring, Rana Ghorayeb is undaunted.

Invesco nears final close for European value-add fund

The real estate vehicle is the first to have a ‘value-add-plus’ strategy after the Dallas-based manager combined two of its fund series.

GLP returns with first data center fund in China

The vehicle also is the firm’s first fund raised since the sale of GCP’s international business to Ares Management.

Brighter Super seeks new real estate managers as it eyes growth

The A$33.5bn Queensland-based superfund handed a mandate to Barings this year and is open to further new relationships.

CalSTRS backs emerging data center firm amid $1.2bn allocation spree

The teachers pension’s biggest real estate commitment last year was to a new relationship with hyperscale developer BlackChamber Group.

Hillhouse’s Rava Partners to launch $2bn-plus second fund

Co-led by Warburg Pincus’s former partner Joe Gagnon, the firm deployed approximately 40% of Fund I’s capital in 2024.

Private real estate looks to diversify in the face of volatility

As global economies descend into a trade war, investors and managers are prioritizing a greater mix of strategies to navigate through uncertainty.