One of the highlight’s of this year’s PERE Forum: Asia in Hong Kong was an onstage interview with Mark Burton, the former chief investment officer of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and the Abu Dhabi Investment Council.
8 min read · 18 January 2013
LPs see improved security by investing with smaller, real estate-focussed fund managers than with large bulge bracket firms, delegates heard on the second day of PERE’s annual event in Hong Kong.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
At the PERE Forum in Hong Kong today, delegates heard how $140bn would be raised for real estate globally in 2011 but that club structures would be regarded as the most capable of vehicles to compete on transactions. Conference polls showed how fund sizes would shrink and opportunistic returns would decrease also.
3 min read · 18 January 2013
Events in China’s economy increasingly are rivalling those in the US, according to this year’s roundtable participants. Still, they are more preoccupied with how the investor community at large is eyeing their industry. PERE Magazine December/January 2010/2011 issue.
10 min read · 24 January 2013
The alternative to the PIIGS – the Nordic region appears to have survived the global financial crisis better than most other European countries. PERE Magazine July, August 2010 issue
10 min read · 24 January 2013
Participants at last month’s UK Roundtable say the incoming directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers will lead to a more professional sector and is not something that should be feared, however a lobby effort on some of the more draconian elements would be welcome.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
Investors have been asking selected fund managers to launch real estate funds, according to Ernst & Young’s Dean Hodcroft. He explained his experience at this month’s PERE UK Roundtable discussion.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
Jim Quille, chairman and chief executive officer of MGPA added his name to the growing list of fund managers who doubt how widespread ‘investment club’ structures will become. Today, he shared his thoughts with PERE on-stage
2 min read · 24 January 2013
Jing Ulrich, JP Morgan’s chairman of China Equities and Commodities warned delegates at PERE’s third annual conference in Hong Kong to expect investment volumes in China to fall up to 15% as the government tightens policy.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
As the prominence of domestic capital continues to boom in market like China, international fund managers must look to other areas to compete on deals.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
