BlackRock’s European and UK Property Funds of Funds will now be managed by Aviva, after the firm poached BlackRock’s former head of real estate funds of funds, John Gellatly. The decision was to ensure ‘continuity’ for unitholders, the firms said.
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Chinese sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corporation is reportedly among the bidders for stakes in investments within its $5bn portfolio of real estate, private equity and natural resources assets.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The pension fund of UK local authority, Bath & North East Somerset Council, is taking advantage of the repriced US core real estate debt market via Partners Group.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
The $12.5bn pension has been expanding its investment portfolio into European-focused funds.
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The Sydney-based developer and fund manager is planning to invest in suburban malls in China's top tier cities through the vehicle, which could be launched in Q1 2010.
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The Connecticut advisory firm has invested in secondaries deals worth $1bn since 2003 from its fund of funds coffers.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The deal will allow the financial services giant's asset management division to give its clients access to private equity. Siguler Guff is the midst of putting together a real estate fund following the appointment of James Corl.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Campbell Lutyens has brokered a secondary restructuring transaction of Swiss-listed APEN, formerly known as AIG Private Equity.
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Ryan J. Orr, executive director of Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects at Stanford University, sees changes ahead in how institutional investors will access the asset class: their appetite is still strong, but their tastes have broadened
7 min read · 21 January 2013
Hudson Realty has hired ex-Citigroup and Lehman Brothers CMBS specialist Precilla Torres as the firm pushed further into securitised debt opportunities. PERE magazine, November 2009
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