The Austin-based pension plan expects to commit up to $600 million in the coming year to core, value-added and opportunistic real estate investments.
2 min read · 06 January 2014
The property services firm has predicted that 2014 investment volumes will surpass $1trn for the first time since 2007, with the Americas leading in terms of growth and Asia leading in terms of volume.
2 min read · 06 January 2014
China has moved past the ‘emerging’ stage, and more predictable returns already are drawing the eyes of conservative investors, according to Goodwin Gaw of Gaw Capital Partners.
2 min read · 20 December 2013
The $10bn Russian government-backed Russian Direct Investment Fund is setting up a real estate team in preparation for a $1bn joint venture real estate platform with a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund.
2 min read · 10 December 2013
Asia’s cross-border real estate activity rose by 5.5 percent last quarter to $5.2 billion overall, with high net-worth individual investors showing the fastest increase, according to a recent study by property services giant CBRE. The large markets of Australia, Hong Kong, China and Japan led the charge of cross-border investments, with capital coming from both […]
2 min read · 29 November 2013
The $12.8 billion pension system will use the additional equity for its first investments in non-core property and real estate debt.
2 min read · 19 November 2013
The Chicago-based firm private equity real estate firm has teamed up with fixed income specialist Rogge Global Partners for a ‘short duration’ bond fund that will offer exposure to commercial mortgage backed securities, especially in Europe.
2 min read · 11 November 2013
At MIPIM Asia this week, Ping An offered a glimpse of what China’s insurers might be seeking in their overseas investments.
2 min read · 08 November 2013
Ping An told delegates at the MIPIM Asia 2013 conference that it was seeking assets that could generate a higher return than onshore bonds.
2 min read · 07 November 2013
China’s regulators are discussing raising the limit on the insurance industry’s allocation to real assets by 10 percent in the pursuit of higher returns.
2 min read · 30 October 2013
