The Washington DC-based firm has appointed Bob Bartlett as marketing and investor relations director.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
As events in the US draw the conduct of placement agents into the limelight, research conducted by PEI Media shows that many LPs find it hard to tell the genuine article from the so-called 'finders'.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
As LPs struggle to deal with their own liquidity issues, real estate secondaries specialist Landmark Partners says many limited partners may be missing the ‘ultimate’ investment opportunity.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
As private fund managers look to the US public markets to raise capital, one public REIT is looking to a private fund to take advantage of the downturn. By Zoe Hughes
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The founder and chairman of the Dublin-based firm Quinlan Private is stepping down this month. He has been gradually withdrawing his day-to-day involvement with the firm for at least a year and has been investing his personal wealth in property deals.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Real estate remains the most popular alternative asset class among pension funds despite a 4% fall in assets under management in 2008, according to a Watson Wyatt survey. Allocations to private equity and infrastructure rose by 4% each.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Audrey Greenberg has joined the firm in its Los Angeles office as chief financial officer of CB Richard Ellis Investors' value-added real estate funds series.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Simon Walker has called for private equity to be exempted from the EU directive on alternative investment fund managers, an appeal some have described as ‘wishful thinking’ and ‘unfortunate’.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
The US arm of the British property firm, led by the Duke of Westminster, has sold the Grosvenor Building it developed in 1985 to merchandising and real estate firm Kingswood Capital. Only two other Vancouver office transactions over $5m have taken place to date this year.
2 min read · 21 January 2013
Aerium becomes the third investor in a month to buy from London-listed Land Securities with the £105.5 million purchase of One Wood Street in the City of London. The investment follows those of the Libyan Foreign Investment Company and Europa Capital.
1 min read · 21 January 2013