Employees' Retirement System of the State of Hawaii

The Hawaii pension fund wants help with its investment needs.

Los Angeles pension committed to an Invesco-managed fund.

PERE’s latest exclusive fundraising data sets the tone this week, indicating a bump for the asset class in H1 – albeit with some major caveats. We break down the biggest takeaways in our report with a dedicated podcast episode. Elsewhere, BNP Paribas AM and AXA IM’s post-merger leadership starts to take shape; Drake Real Estate Partners closes a record fund; Waterton taps a new investment chief, and more in this week’s briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

PERE's latest fundraising report, out this week, confirms how 2024 was an extraordinarily difficult year for real estate managers. Will things turn around in 2025? A string of mega-deals suggests buyers and sellers are finding common ground. Leading the way is Korea's NPS, with nearly $2.4 billion in commitments to a pair of real estate ventures. Elsewhere in the industry, AustralianSuper picks up a 50 percent stake in Oxford Properties' European logistics platform, GIC names its next Americas real estate chief, US multifamily managers land in regulators' crosshairs and more in this week's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Geopolitics and policy dominate the private real estate headlines this week as the property industry prepares for a second Trump administration, the fallout from a German political crisis, and how both could impact key moves by central banks around the world. Meanwhile, Blackstone makes a multi-billion-dollar bet on shopping centers; the PERE Network hosts its 19th annual America Forum; exclusive research provides fresh insight into the outlook for real estate allocations; and much more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

EQT Exeter names 15-year company veteran Henry Steinberg as the successor to departing founder Ward Fitzgerald; Starwood makes a takeover bid with an offer to privatize Columbia Threadneedle’s Balanced Commercial Property Trust; PERE and its affiliate titles are calling all investors to participate in the 2025 Investor Perspectives Survey; and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

PERE hosts its annual America Forum with two days of in-depth discussions in New York, Starwood joins a tight mega-fund race with the launch of Fund XIII, which has a big focus on data centers, this year’s Proptech 20 shows a slowdown in capital raising growth, we make a final call for PERE Awards submissions and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

The US public pension hired Elizabeth Burton as the new CIO.

The US public pension has backed a global focused fund.