The Securities and Exchange Commission will now hear public opinion on general solicitation rules after receiving several letters urging it to avoid acting in haste over the JOBS Act.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
Financial Services Committee chairman Spencer Bachus is asking for stakeholders’ help in introducing legislation that will make the Volcker rule less 'burdensome'.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The Alternative Investment Funds Managers bill submitted to the Dutch parliament has introduced a 'lighter depository regime' for private equity and real estate funds.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The ex-head of China at Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (MSREI) has received a sentence of nine months in prison for evading the internal controls of the platform’s Wall Street bank parent and for violating the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
3 min read · 17 January 2013
Deal marks the genesis of a joint venture partnership between South Korea’s $320 billion state pension fund and ASX-listed property company and fund manager DEXUS Property Group.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The head of the Toronto-based alternative asset manager expects that most institutional investors will increase their allocations to real assets from 10 percent or less to between 25 percent and 40 percent of their portfolios over the next decade.
3 min read · 17 January 2013
The Beverly Hills-based real estate investment firm joins Lone Star and Goldman Sachs on the shortlist to bid on the Irish bank’s €650 million property loan portfolio.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), which manages more than $3 trillion of China’s foreign exchange reserves, is helping Blackstone towards its $13 billion hard cap for its latest real estate opportunity fund.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The $69.42 billion pension plan has committed $200 million to a new real estate separate account with Och-Ziff Capital Management and also plans to allocate up to $120 million to SC Management’s latest Asia real estate fund.
3 min read · 17 January 2013
The former chief US housing strategist at Morgan Stanley has co-founded an asset management firm to invest more than $1 billion in distressed single-family rental homes in the US over the next two years.
3 min read · 17 January 2013
