G2 Investment Group, founded by two former Guggenheim Partners executives and a prominent Latin American financier, is launching a new platform for real estate equity and debt investment, led by Kenneth Cohen, Larry Kravetz and Charles Manna.
3 min read · 24 January 2013
A tax row involving UK mobile phone giant Vodafone and India’s revenue service might seem irrelevant to real estate funds operating in the country, but it actually has important implications
3 min read · 24 January 2013
The bill that would hike taxes on carried interest has a provision that would make it more expensive for GPs to sell stakes in their firms.
3 min read · 24 January 2013
In investing its $4.7 billion G7 fund, Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing says it will be more disciplined and targeted in the deals it sources. The US, Western Europe and Japan will be the fund’s primary focus. PERE magazine June 2010
8 min read · 24 January 2013
Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing has just closed its latest opportunity fund on $4.7bn. In closing the largest private equity real estate fund post-Lehman, MSREI is refocusing attention on its future, rather than the recent past. MSREI CEO Owen Thomas and CIO Jay Mantz talk about the challenges of the past 18 months – and how the New York-based platform is investing its capital once again.
10 min read · 24 January 2013
In an effort to curb the use of placement agents, the US' largest public pension has set up an automated PPM system that has been greeted with market scepticism.
3 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
The US’ third largest public pension generated overall returns of 25.9% in the year to the end of March – however real estate was the only loss-maker, returning -27.8%.
2 min read · 24 January 2013
The creation of consistent rules for a compelling, apples-to-apples ranking of the largest investors in the asset class caused us to reach further and dig deeper than any other ranking of infrastructure investors ever before.
5 min read · 24 January 2013
Alan Bear has joined the principal real estate advisory and investment arm of Alvarez & Marsal as managing director to help grow the platform and source capital for asset and portfolio-level recapitalisations.
1 min read · 24 January 2013
