Over a series of transactions, the Zug-based private markets investment manager, has built up a stake in BlackRock Asia Fund III, equivalent to 10 percent of its original $3.9 billion of equity.
3 min read · 02 October 2014
In hauling almost $2bn for the Partners Group Real Estate Secondary 2013 fund, the Zug, Switzerland-based private markets manager has broken its own record for capital raising for a real estate secondaries fund.
2 min read · 01 October 2014
In its fifth transaction in London and ninth separate account, direct investment since 2010, Gaw Capital has lead a group of Korean investors, including the Korean Teachers’ Credit Union, in the purchase of Exchange House in London from BlackRock Real Estate.
2 min read · 26 September 2014
Not all opportunistic tail-end fund disposals mean pain for the seller, as was demonstrated in Niam’s sale from its 2004 vintage Nordics fund to Partners Group this week.
3 min read · 11 September 2014
The Zug-based private markets investment manager has acquired 4 million square feet of property in Finland and Sweden by buying out the investors of Niam’s 2004 vintage Nordic Fund III.
2 min read · 05 September 2014
The Swiss private markets investment firm has purchased 12 percent of the Chinese property fund’s units, providing 31 of the vehicle’s 145 investors an exit.
3 min read · 04 August 2014
The private equity arm of Standard Chartered, a Chinese institution and an Asian family office have purchased a 28 percent stake in a Chongqing project.
2 min read · 11 July 2014
Aberdeen has successfully hit its €300m fundraising hard cap for its first secondaries real estate fund of funds in a further sign that the indirect form of investing in private real estate is gaining traction with investors.
2 min read · 08 July 2014
The Copenhagen-based multi-manager has held a final closing of Sparinvest Property Investors Fund (SPF) III fund and is already two-thirds of the way committed.
2 min read · 02 July 2014
The Hong Kong-based alternatives assets firm that owns Secured Capital has acquired a Japanese property loan portfolio alongside Canadian pension plan investment manager CPPIB.
2 min read · 27 June 2014
