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BlackRock sets up Euro infra debt teamPhilippe Benaroya, Chris Wrenn and Gilles Lengaigne – who worked together at Blackstone/GSO for over 10 years – are launching BlackRock’s European infrastructure debt Investment unit in London. The team will target investment grade infrastructure debt investments for insurers and other investors.
- Apollo Global buys Irish loans
Lloyds Banking Group has sold a portfolio of distressed property loans for £149m as interest in Ireland’s real estate increases.
- Blackstone raising $3bn RE debt fund
Following the record $13.3bn close for its global real estate opportunity fund, the New York-based private equity and real estate giant is now targeting another major real estate capital raise, this time in the debt arena.
- LP Radar: The LP-LP divide(3)
The once harmonious LP community appears to be dividing into different classes, depending on how they invest. This disharmony has forced GPs to tread carefully in explaining why different LPs get different terms
- Private equity eyes Russia’s depreciating infrastructure(3)
Russia’s depreciating infrastructure and shrinking government budgets are driving the demand for private money to fund infrastructure projects, with private equity well-positioned to capitalise on the opportunity, write MRIF director Pavel Nazarov (pictured) and Squire Sanders partner Christopher Rose.
- Alternative finance
Oaktree’s NPL securitisation points to a new financing option for private equity real estate firms, as well as the potential resurgence of US real estate finance in general.
- BLUEPRINT: Coming full circle
Having gotten his start in housing 20 years ago as a politician, Henry Cisneros is once again helping to spur residential development across the country, this time through his private equity real estate firm, CityView. PERE Magazine, October 2012 issue
- The benchmark LP(5)
Since taking the helm at CalPERS in early 2009, CIO Joseph Dear has made it clear he considers private equity a crucial part of its investment strategy. But things haven’t been business as usual: he’s taken fund managers to task over alignment of interest, led an overhaul of the pension’s allocation model, sorted out the aftermath of a ‘pay-to-play’ scandal and hired a veteran private equity chief. Amanda Janis stops by Dear’s office in Sacramento to learn how CalPERS continues to find value in private equity
- NORDIC ROUNDTABLE: No chip off the Euro bloc
How should the Nordics be characterised by international investors? According to those operating on the ground, the answer is as one bloc, but with key differences. PERE Magazine, July/August 2012 issue.
- AMERICAS NEWS: Winding down
Two US loan portfolio sales this year mark the beginning of the end for Eurohypo. PERE Magazine, July/August 2012 issue