The $72.8 billion pension plan has approved an investment to Blackstone’s new Asia-focused vehicle. It also announced an update to its real estate secondary offering.
3 min read · 22 March 2013
The $78.1 billion pension system is weighing the possible sale of fund interests in its real estate portfolio.
2 min read · 26 February 2013
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
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
The former CIO of Morgan Stanley AIP’s real estate fund of funds business has formed Candlewood Investments to specialise in secondaries and co-investments.
2 min read · 30 November 2012
The Zug-based private markets investment firm described in its latest research how it is placing its current real estate investing emphasis on investments in debt and secondaries, both direct and indirect, as it avoids a “herding mentality”.
2 min read · 21 August 2012
Chicago-based property services giant Jones Lang LaSalle has created a secondaries trading platform for Asia-Pacific private real estate funds by way of a monthly bulletin. The first batch of investments to hit the market was sent out last Friday and was valued at $250 million.
3 min read · 02 August 2012
The Swiss group is currently highlighting real estate secondaries, senior debt and preferred equity investments in its investment thesis as it more than doubles the size of its last vehicle in a global series.
2 min read · 20 June 2012
