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A $13bn opportunityTaiwanese insurance groups are diversifying their portfolios and flocking to private equity in the hunt for higher yield, offering a substantial opening for fund managers.
- Blackstone’s James: ‘We don’t think there’s a bubble’
The world’s biggest private equity firm saw its second-highest quarter of real estate realizations, buoying overall profits.
- Blackstone halts hotel sale to Anbang
California’s Hotel del Coronado is one of the most valuable in the Strategic Hotels portfolio, the remainder of which the Chinese insurer acquired last month.
- Blackstone sells $6.5bn stake in Hilton to HNA Group
The Chinese company bought a 25% interest in the global hotel chain in a continuing push to buy overseas real estate.
- TPG replaces debt origination head
The Fort Worth- and San Francisco-based alternative investment manager tapped an executive from Ladder Capital to fill a hole left by James Yung, who left for Blackstone earlier this month.
- China Life invests $2bn in Starwood Capital hotels
China's largest life insurance company has led a consortium to acquire 280 select-service hotels from Starwood which will remain as the asset manager to the portfolio.
- IVG stall Officefirst IPO amid ‘bleaker’ conditions
Plans to list the Bonn-based real estate firm’s German office portfolio have been postponed after prospective investors were turned off by macroeconomic factors.
- Blackstone poaches RE execs from TPG – Exclusive
The New York-based private equity real estate giant has recruited two executives from TPG’s real estate debt platform for its own BREDS business.
- Blackstone selling Dutch offices to Anbang for €500m
The Chinese insurer is buying the portfolio through Vivat, a Dutch insurer it purchased last year.
- Blackstone in largest Asia fund exit to date
The New York-headquartered asset manager has sold a majority stake in a Chinese retail operator acquired via its $5bn Blackstone Real Estate Partners (BREP) Asia fund to a consortium led by China Vanke.