Over the past 20 years, Thor Equities founder Joseph Sitt has moved from urban real estate investing to the retail business and back again. Here, he speaks with PERE about his days hawking goods at flea markets, his fascination with Wal-Mart and why he took all the mini-bars out of the Palmer House Hilton. By Aaron Lovell
10 min read · 22 January 2013
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Colony Capital founder and chairman Tom Barrack has lined up more than $1 billion in equity to start buying distressed debt and property companies as the firm searches for the bottom of the market.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
Core markets are once again the strategy of choice for investors in the wake of the credit crisis.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
According to the PEI 50, a proprietary ranking of private equity firms unveiled today, the 50 largest private equity firms in the world have together raised $810 billion over the last five years. At the top of the list are Carlyle, Goldman Sachs, TPG, KKR and CVC. The list is distinct from a ranking of the largest private equity real estate firms that will be unveiled on this site next week.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The Florida-based buyout firm continues its international expansion.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The Virginia-based private equity firm hires two professionals from UBS and Citigroup to help expand its global real estate funds, and a third exec from Starwood to help bolster its North American operations.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The hybrid US firm has filed IPO plans for a special purpose acquisition corporation as it simultaneously raises $900m for two private equity funds.
2 min read · 22 January 2013
The state’s retirement system has committed to six alternative investment funds, weeks after increasing its alternatives allocation to 10 percent.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
The global fund of funds manager has hired former Netherlands-based Composition Capital’s managing director to oversee its private equity real estate investments.
1 min read · 22 January 2013
