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Friday Letter Blackstone changes tackFor years, Blackstone’s real estate focus in Europe has been on backing operating companies rather than buying assets. Now all the signs are that the strategy is about to be reversed.
- Friday Letter Defensive bankruptcy
The implosion of General Growth Properties is a highly choreographed, and controversial, phenomenon.
- Friday Letter Calm before the storm
The 2010 PERE 30 ranking produced little by the way of significant movement from last year’s list with large capital closings few and far between. But next year’s table stands to provide a different picture entirely.
- Friday Letter Buying the Bank
Private equity firms are doing more in Europe than simply looking to buy loan portfolios from financial institutions – they want to buy whole banks.
- Friday Letter Expo Takeaways
This week saw the EXPO REAL 2010 property show in Munich, Germany, bluster along. Here are some key takeaways:
- Friday Letter Surprise at the finish
For six months, speculation has mounted regarding the future of ING Real Estate Investment Management (REIM). After being put on the block by its Dutch insurance company parent in June, questions raged about whether ING REIM would be split up according to its respective regions or whether there was a firm hungry – and big – enough to take it over whole.
- Friday Letter The nominations are in, now pick a winner
Polls open today for the Global PERE Awards 2010. Now is the time for you to determine which firms and individuals stood out from the crowd last year. Make your voice heard and get voting!
- Friday Letter Apollo, Blackstone, Brookfield do battle in PERE awards
With just under four days of voting left to go, industry executives are voting on the deal strategy of 2010: recaps or platform takeovers.
- Friday Letter The return of the megafund
Blackstone's announcement that it would soon begin raising a $10bn+ global opportunity fund has the market wondering whether jumbo funds are back.
- Friday Letter Dealing with the aftershock
A week after Japan’s ‘big one’ finally arrived, the human catastrophe is as yet unmeasured. Still, in the long term, international investors should not turn their backs on the country.