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Blackstone reports improving market, 'pent-up demand' for performanceExecutives at the world’s largest real estate manager are less optimistic about a fundraising recovery.
Blackstone’s LePatner: ‘We’ll be the largest owner of data centers globally’The New York-based firm says it now has a $70bn data center portfolio, and significantly more in the pipeline.
Blueprint: Ares buys GCP's ex-China business for $3.7bn, Blue Owl's $1bn data-center deal, Blackstone tackles headline riskA mega-merger between two of the top 10 PERE 100 managers dominates real estate headlines this week as Ares Management agrees to acquire GLP Capital Management's non-China business for $3.7 billion; fellow top 10 firm Blue Owl strikes its own $1 billion M&A deal to buy IPI Partners; Blackstone faces questions about reputational risk; PERE checks in from Expo Real; and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.
Blackstone addresses headline risk at New Mexico SIC meetingA bitter labor dispute led to calls for the Santa Fe-based sovereign wealth fund to withhold investments from the firm.
Data center investors like CPP are playing catch upThe Canadian pension’s $15bn joint venture with Equinix represents a significant and necessary upsizing of its investments in the sector.
Blueprint: CPP, Schroders name new real estate chiefs, CalSTRS’ $1.7bn writedown, and PERE reveals the latest Global Investor 100New real estate chiefs take over at Canadian pension giant CPP and London-based manager Schroders; CalSTRS takes a hit to its real estate portfolio as a result of “industry-wide valuation markdowns;" Ares takes aim at Mexico's industrial market with the acquisition of Walton Street Mexico; UK pension Nest and US manager Invesco lean into development; investors take a big slide on the 2024 PERE Global Investor 100 ranking; and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.
Data center managers have a deployment problemPower constraints have become the biggest obstacle in moving forward with developing new assets in the sector.
The investor that bucked the negative performance trendUC Investments, the University of California’s endowment, has surged up the GI 100, a feat made possible by an opportunistic Blackstone deal.
The European real estate recovery is heating upInvestment activity has been gathering speed in the region – but not necessarily in all the markets one would expect, says James Sparrow, CEO, Savills UK and EMEA.
Blueprint: Fed rate-cut reactions, Generali ramps up third-party capital, managers set sights on private wealthPrivate real estate market participants weigh in on the ramifications of the US Federal Reserve's long-awaited interest-rate cut; Generali Real Estate recruits a senior executive from Morgan Stanley to help pursue its lofty ambitions in third-party capital management; Invesco Real Estate and Hines are the latest managers to feel the allure of private wealth, forming partnerships and making key hires in the space; and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.