As transaction volumes start to slowly pick up in the US, real estate professionals at the ULI conference argue that investors need to “get real” over return expectations.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The high returns of the boom years have been replaced by another ‘R’ word: risk, according to a series of white papers by Ernst & Young. Real estate companies should now be focused on capital sources, reevaluating their business model and managing global risk.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Fundraising by Australian private equity funds plummeted to A$1.54bn in the year ending June 2009, although total investment value registered a slight increase.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Four veterans of the Asia real estate market gather in Singapore to compare notes. For the third year, PERE organised a roundtable discussion about the Asia real estate investment opportunity, this time in Singapore’s iconic Raffles Hotel. Our four Asia old-hands spoke optimistically about the forward fundamentals of many Asian countries, but voiced caution about the fragility in the west. PERE November issue.
10 min read · 08 February 2013
Campbell Lutyens has brokered a secondary restructuring transaction of Swiss-listed APEN, formerly known as AIG Private Equity.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The Australian sovereign wealth fund's exposure to private equity grew 520% year-over-year.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
<italic>LP intelligence from PrivateEquityOnline and PrivateEquityConnect</italic> 2009-11-01 Staff Writer <strong>ALLOCATION CHANGES</strong><br> <bold>Shell Pension Fund UK</bold> is considering a new 5 percent allocation to alternative assets. This will cover hed
4 min read · 08 February 2013
The world this month 2009-11-01 Staff Writer <strong>FUNDRAISING WINNERS AND LOSERS</strong><br> <sec level="2"><strong>HELLMAN & FRIEDMAN CLOSES $8.8BN FUND</strong><br> The San Francisco firm has raised the year's second-largest fund which, at $8.8 billion, i
6 min read · 08 February 2013
PEI Media’s sister publication, PERE magazine, recent sat down to speak with Keith O’Donnell, the global head of real estate at Taxand, to discuss the grand tax themes shaping the industry. From crackdowns on abuse of tax treaties to attacks on interest deductibility of intra-company loans and the taxation of debt investments, there is plenty to concern private fund managers.
6 min read · 08 February 2013
Does a deal closure in Miami herald better times? Stephanie Kopelousos, the Florida Secretary of Transportation, reflects on a project that went to the brink and back.
3 min read · 08 February 2013
