The Garden State's investment division has resolved to commit to the Greenwich, Connecticut-based private equity real estate firm's US opportunistic fund.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
The South Africa affordable housing focused firm has invested more than half of the committed capital to its debut private equity real estate fund, South African Workforce Housing Fund, and is now plotting a successor vehicle.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Magnus Christensson, the European head of fund placement activities at Jefferies bank, is joining TPG Capital as a member of its European capital raising team.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Stephen Smith has left the Chicago-based real estate investment firm just ahead of a final closing on its second opportunistic retail fund.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
In addition to hiring Rennyson Merritt as a partner in Boston, the Merrill Lynch private placement spinout has added six other professionals to its team recently.
1 min read · 18 January 2013
The $146.9 billion pension fund has allocated $300 million to the Chevy Chase, Maryland-based emerging fund manager.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
A conversation with a German private equity real estate fund manager at the EXPO Real conference in Munich this week threw the spotlight on a deep-rooted reluctance by German lenders to allow large, discounted loan book sales to US private equity houses like in the mid-naughties.
4 min read · 18 January 2013
US special servicer owned by Lewis Ranieri’s company, Ranieri Partners, has acquired global real estate advisory firm, The Situs Companies.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Opportunistic real estate funds have hit a total target of $76 billion, according to research by New York-based Clerestory Capital Partners.
2 min read · 18 January 2013
Fund managers are running out of time to deploy existing capital, but the pressure to invest could drive more activity among opportunistic players.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
