Dilip Awtani, a managing director at Colony Capital and a former European leader for NPLs and distressed investments for GE Capital is moving on. The news comes after the firm reportedly launched a senior real estate debt fund targeting the region.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The real estate arm of French insurer AXA said it had raised €1.4 billion of fresh commitments for its commercial real estate debt programme in Europe.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The US banking giant says Europe is unlike anything in the past as it unveils a four-pronged opportunistic real estate strategy for the region.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The vehicle, created for an unnamed corporate pension, will look to provide liquidity to US real estate ownership structures in a variety of ways.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
One month after opening its first office in Sydney, the Europe and Asia focused private equity real estate firm has notched its maiden investment in the city.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The New York-based real estate investment firm has held a first close for its $1 billion opportunistic debt fund, collecting commitments from investors that include the Contra Costa County Employees’ Retirement Association and the South Carolina Retirement System.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The $22.3 billion pension system plans to significantly boost the size of its real estate portfolio over the next two fiscal years, focusing primarily on non-core investments. Thereafter, however, it expects to pull back on additional investments to the asset class.
3 min read · 17 January 2013
Bruce Feldman, former head of alternatives at the Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System, saw the industry tilting toward ‘key’ LPs.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The Zug-based private markets investment firm described in its latest research how it is placing its current real estate investing emphasis on investments in debt and secondaries, both direct and indirect, as it avoids a “herding mentality”.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The Miami-based firm already has invested nearly half of its latest value-added vehicle, which gives it about $1 billion in buying power for distressed office assets.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
