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NY Common commits $950m to REThe country’s third largest pension plan allocated funds to new and existing investors.
- Taking aim at private equity’s male persona
Level 20 is an important industry initiative to increase female participation in the alternative investment industry – aiming to boost diversity not for diversity’s sake, but to improve investment performance.
- CalPERS to sell $3bn RE portfolio to Blackstone - updated
The transaction marks the largest real estate secondary sale to date.
- Monday Properties suffers wave of departures
Six executives left the real estate owner as the firm puts investments on hold.
- GLP completes acquisition of $4.55bn US logistics portfolio
The Chinese state-owned insurance group China Life Insurance is one of the partner investors with Global Logistic Properties (GLP) for this transaction
- LP Radar - November 2015
See the latest PERE LP updates, including allocation changes and people moves.
- Oaktree’s real estate continues to buoy earnings
Real estate was a bright spot in an otherwise depressed quarter for Oaktree.
- Lone Star secures $5.1bn Home Properties loan
The Freddie Mac loan will help to finance the Dallas-based private equity firm's $7.6 billion acquisition of the Rochester, NY-based REIT.
- Apollo’s second RE fund draws $354m
The firm continued to post losses in real estate, but executives spoke of opportunities in Europe and the US.
- Starwood strikes $5.4bn US multifamily deal
The Greenwich, Connecticut-based firm has agreed to buy over 23,000 apartment units from Equity Residential after another big multifamily purchase last week.