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‘You have to pay your people’: Fund cost scrutiny squeezes managersInvestors are applying newfound pressure on expenses and fee structures after years of real estate underperformance.
Alex Knapp's real estate rebalancing challenge at NBIMBoosting returns and scale at the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund is no easy feat. But the property boss is up to the task.
Schroders' Asia real estate head to step downHaving resigned less than a year after he joined in September 2025, Ando will stay on in an advisory role for the next few months.
Former Brookfield exec joins Slättö to support globalizing investor baseAs managing director of capital formation, Laura Barstow will help the Swedish manager capture growing international interest in Nordics real estate.
ICG shuts down Asia real estate business after three yearsThe London-based manager is parting ways with its APAC property team, formed in 2022, to refocus on Europe and the US.
Blueprint: A life sciences rebound, Ontario Teachers’ Asia retreat, Sixth Street’s staycation and moreThis week’s top story highlights a contrarian effort in one of real estate’s most challenged sectors of recent years: life sciences. Eyeing opportunity in the wake of a broad retreat from the category, Tishman Speyer-backed Breakthrough Properties is back with a second fund with $430 million in initial commitments to show for it. Elsewhere, retrenchment wears on as Ontario Teachers cuts its Asia real estate team, prime offices enjoy a global rent bump, Sixth Street bets on San Francisco and more in this week’s digest, exclusively for our valued subscribers.
OTPP disbands Asia real estate team amid regional retrenchmentThe Canadian investor will transition oversight of its Asia real estate investments to its headquarters in Toronto by the end of 2026.
- Is the Maple 8’s real estate dominance on the wane?
The turnover of property chiefs at Canada’s largest pensions coincides with the investors’ declining allocations to the asset class.
Blueprint: Schroders’ next Asia head, NBIM’s office push, UK pensions eye real assets and moreLeadership changes top the headlines this week as Schroders names its next Asia-Pacific real estate head, Swedish manager Areim replaces its head of investor relations and Australia’s sovereign wealth fund taps a private real estate veteran to run its growing property business. Meanwhile, one of the UK’s largest pension investors charts a real estate expansion, US managers tweak their strategies for the tariff era and more in this week’s briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.
Schroders names former OTPP executive as head of Asia real estateThe current head of real estate, Andrew Moore, will stay with the firm, and in Hong Kong, as chairman of its Asia real estate business.