A company called PILinvests, which is owned by Australia’s Valad Property Group, is raising a closed-ended fund of funds to invest in the European vehicles of its parent.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The $37bn university endowment will make substantial cutbacks to its private equity portfolio, which one secondary investor calls a 'sophisticated' move to sell before other LPs do the same.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
How much confidence do LPs have in private equity? They’re begging GPs to slash valuations and scrambling to throw more cash at the asset class, writes David Snow.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The US firm is deploying part of its latest global fund to establish a joint venture with Longbow Real Estate Capital to invest in UK debt and property company recapitalisations.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The $147bn US pension will decide today whether it will respond to the denominator effect by increasing the amount it is allowed to invest in real estate to 17% of total assets.
3 min read · 22 January 2013
The $147bn pension has responded to the denominator effect by increasing the amount it is allowed to invest in private equity to 15% of total assets. CalSTRS has similarly bumped its real estate allocation.
3 min read · 22 January 2013
Following HarbourVest’s decision to walk away from a signed secondary transaction last week, sellers of private equity fund interests are concerned that buy-side MAC clauses will complicate secondaries activity even further.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
$57bn raised to date 2008-11-01 Staff Writer Global fundsBlackstone Real Estate Partners VIThe Blackstone GroupNew YorkGlobal diversifedFinalN/A$900Apr-08Equity International Fund IVEquity International PropertiesChicagoGlobal diversifedFinalN/A$500Feb-08Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners IIILehman Brother
3 min read · 22 January 2013
The personality-driven construction sector in India has been undergoing a period of profound change. The net beneficiaries of this change may be foreign private equity real estate firms, who bring with them badly needed capital. But partnering with an Indian developer is not a straightforward affair. By Dave Keating
10 min read · 22 January 2013
As limited partners open up their real estate allocations to the emerging markets, developing countries in Asia are at the top of the list, with China and India of particular interest. By Eva Poon
9 min read · 22 January 2013
