In a new research paper, Nori Gerardo Lietz throws the spotlight on the staggeringly low number of women in senior investment and finance roles at private equity real estate firms. The hope is that going public with the issue will change the industry for the better.
3 min read · 17 January 2013
There was an ‘increase in confidence’ among private equity real estate firms last year, as evidenced by a 61.7 percent increase in the targeted equity for newly launched vehicles compared to 2010.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The first 90 days of Guillaume Cassou’s tenure as a director in the newly-formed real estate division of the New York-based buy-out titan will be to identify small pools of long-term strategic business partners and advisors.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
Lone Star, TPG Capital, The Wellcome Trust and GIC Real Estate discuss banks as sellers of real estate assets during this excerpt from a panel discussion at last week’s MIPIM property show.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
Banks and other financial institutions were the most active sellers of fund interests last year, according to the latest findings from Landmark Partners.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
To date, most land sales in China have come from local governments. However, at the annual MIPIM conference in Cannes, delegates heard that a new and potentially sizeable land source is poised to materialise.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The Chevy Chase, Maryland-based real estate emerging manager has brought on three new hires, including a principal who will be in charge of acquisitions on the West Coast for the firm’s first fund.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
Brad Child will retire from the state pension plan’s real estate investment board in April. The move follows the resignation of the Oregon’s chief financial officer Ron Schmitz in October.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
CPPIB’s private investments chief Mark Wiseman will take over as CEO following the retirement of David Denison in June. Wiseman joined CPPIB from the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in 2005.
1 min read · 17 January 2013
Despite market conditions causing 2011 to be a “roller coaster ride”, the Canadian institutional fund manager’s real estate portfolio generated positive returns last year.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
