Real estate secondary transactions rose to record levels for the fourth year in a row, with a 20 percent increase in volume for the second straight year, according to new data from Landmark Partners.
2 min read · 29 January 2013
The Connecticut-based fund of funds manager is back in the market with a new fund seeking $400 million to invest in opportunistic and value-added real estate vehicles as well as secondaries.
1 min read · 29 January 2013
The $49.5 billion pension system will make sizable investments in new value-added funds from Blackstone and Paramount, as well as its own co-investment and secondary program.
2 min read · 28 January 2013
Andrea Echberg, former head of infrastructure in the principal finance team at Societe Generale, has joined the London team of private equity and infrastructure investment firm Pantheon as partner and head of European infrastructure investments.
1 min read · 21 January 2013
Advantage Partners will sell a coffee shop franchise to MBK Partners for about $480 million, highlighting a growing trend of GP-to-GP secondaries in Japan.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The $70.8 billion pension system is considering a massive sale of real estate holdings in a continuing effort to cull under-performing or redundant investments from its portfolio.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
Recently promoted director Andy Nick will lead the private equity investment bank’s West Coast office.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
The $6.4bn retirement system plans to invest in mezzanine and direct lending, distressed, secondaries, buyouts and funds of funds.
2 min read · 16 January 2013
Harvey Lambert, head of the firm’s secondaries group, left in December. A second high-ranking secondaries executive, Kennon Koay, left around the same time.
2 min read · 16 January 2013
The niche secondaries investor – which has helped firms including SVG with refinancing needs – had a 75% re-up rate for a fund that’s more than double the size of its predecessor.
2 min read · 11 January 2013
