US real estate specialist consultant, The Townsend Group, beefs up multi-manager business by hiring the former head of ING Real Estate Select.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
The Radnor, Pennsylvania-based firm has closed its second fund of funds on $145m. With consultant Townsend acting as investment adviser, the fund has committed capital to Brookfield’s mega pledge fund.
1 min read · 24 January 2013
The global placement agent has launched a platform to help managers raise RMB funds and has hired Eric Gu from China’s National Social Security Fund to lead the effort.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
Nicholas Wong, managing director for Asia Pacific of ING Real Estate Select, the multi manager business of ING Real Estate Investment Management, has resigned from his position as the division’s restructuring leads to the consolidation of its Asia offices.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
The private equity investment firm has hired Tatsuya Kubo from Fortress Investment Group to head what will it be its second Asian office.
1 min read · 24 January 2013
Steven Rattner and Howard Margolis (pictured) will join the family foundation of New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, alongside 18 other former Quadrangle employees. Willett is operating from Bloomberg's Upper East Side office.
3 min read · 24 January 2013
Steven Rattner and Howard Margolis will join the family foundation of New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, alongside 18 other former Quadrangle employees.
3 min read · 24 January 2013
The global consultant has hired Paul Richards as head of European Real Estate Boutique in London.
1 min read · 24 January 2013
It has emerged that managing directors Anders Âström and Tomas Otterud have departed the company having joined less than a year earlier
1 min read · 24 January 2013
Goldman Sachs’ Whitehall Funds and New York-based Cerberus Capital Management aim to raise a reported $187m for the German residential property company GSW Immobilien.
1 min read · 24 January 2013
