Private equity firms spent 2009 strengthening portfolios and are now looking to invest large amounts of dry powder, a panel in New York told delegates.
3 min read · 08 February 2013
In 2009, Americans have received warning after warning that their governments face alternatively a ‘decade of debt’ or a ‘lost decade’ due to massive, painful and protracted budget deficits that are here to stay. Opportunities are abound for infrastructure investors – but so are the pitfalls.
5 min read · 08 February 2013
Canadian pension plan OMERS is among co-investors in the European venture, which will be led by Tim Flynn, Goldman Sachs’ former European head of leveraged finance.
1 min read · 08 February 2013
The US pension is the latest to join the government’s programme meant to jumpstart the credit markets, which CalPERS has said it will not join.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The $126bn pension has created a new allocation to house its investments in the US Public Private Investment Programme.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
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The high returns of the boom years have been replaced by another ‘R’ word: risk, according to a series of white papers by Ernst & Young.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
