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CPP Investments' long-serving Asia real estate boss retiresHaving been with the firm for over 16 years, Phua has passed his role to another senior executive within the team.
Private real estate looks to diversify in the face of volatilityAs global economies descend into a trade war, investors and managers are prioritizing a greater mix of strategies to navigate through uncertainty.
Inside Toronto Transit’s real estate portfolio overhaulThe Canadian pension’s chief investment officer, Andrew Greene, tells PERE why it plans to transition its real estate portfolio from mostly direct holdings to majority fund commitments.
Private real estate executives are bullish on retail againThe once-overlooked category was back in the spotlight at the PERE Network’s America Forum.
Blueprint: NPS's JV spree, AustralianSuper's European play, GIC's next Americas head, PERE's latest fundraising report and morePERE'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.
Oxford Properties’ M7 stake sale ‘was always the plan’With a divestment to AustralianSuper, the Canadian pension investor is executing a long-term plan to achieve scale in European logistics.
Starwood-led group makes $7bn ESR takeover bidESR shareholders Warburg Pincus and Qatar Investment Authority have joined the consortium in its updated bid for the Asian logistics giant.
Blueprint: Introducing PERE Deals, another dismal fundraising quarter, Brookfield's logistics mega-dealThe waiting is over: PERE Deals, our exclusive news and data service, is officially live – as is PERE's latest fundraising report, which paints a less-than-rosy picture of the capital raising environment through the first nine months of the year. Elsewhere among this week's headlines, Brookfield and Panattoni fortify their positions in the red-hot logistics sector; UBS navigates another wave of redemption requests; PERE salutes private real estate's most influential women and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.
Oxford makes North America, Europe leadership changesThe Toronto-based pension giant promoted Randy Hoffman to head of US and Tyler Seaman to head of Canada, among several other moves.
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.