There was just one opportunistic real estate fund targeting more than $1 billion in equity commitments in the first six months of 2010, in a sign the industry is scaling down its fundraising efforts.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
Hong Kong-based real estate investor Asia Pacific Land is poised to make its private equity real estate fund debut following the appointment of former Warburg Pincus partner Philip Mintz earlier this year.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
Anders Âström, the real estate professional best known for founding the indirect investment management business of Aberdeen Property Investors, and former colleague Tomas Otterud, have returned to the real estate arena with their own business
1 min read · 24 January 2013
The US firm says in its latest European bulletin that the focus of bank lending is on core prime assets in Western European cities, but that there are signs of ‘risk appetite’ returning
2 min read · 24 January 2013
The US-headquartered gatekeeper and fund of funds manager is looking to source new managers in the Asia-Pacific region and expand its client base. It has based itself in Hong Kong.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
Harvard University is reportedly in advanced talks to sell underlying investments in around six US-focused real estate funds to China sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corporation.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
The global private equity firm has raised almost half of its target for the Carlyle Beijing RMB fund.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
Asset management firm Franklin Templeton’s real estate arm has established a newly dedicated business team to analyse, select and invest in real asset fund opportunities. Sources suggest that the company is planning to launch a real assets fund of funds that will invest in infrastructure as well as other real assets globally.
1 min read · 24 January 2013
The Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Pension Fund, which has around £760m of assets, wants to find a real estate fund of funds manager to invest globally.
1 min read · 24 January 2013
The UK pension ‘lifeboat’ has hired Goldman Sachs, Pantheon, Hamilton Lane, Lexington, LGT, Partners Group and RREEF as advisors.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
