Heitman started four decades ago as a mortgage origination shop. Today, the firm has $20 billion in assets around the world. PERE recently spoke with firm head Maury Tognarelli about Heitman's history, its pioneering move into Central Europe and where the company is headed next. By Aaron Lovell
8 min read · 12 January 2013
With the acquisition of Singapore-based Pangaea Capital, Howard Marks adds Asian real estate vet Robert Zulkoski to the Oaktree team. By Sharon Lim
6 min read · 12 January 2013
The US hedge fund is joining forces with a 50-year-old local firm.
4 min read · 12 January 2013
The 2007 Ernst & Young Real Estate Private Equity Market Outlook painted a rosy picture of private equity real estate fundraising, but GPs who attended a breakfast meeting unveiling the results of the survey had mixed reviews on the investment climate.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Pithy quotes from people in and outside of the real estate industry
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Robert Zulkoski created a stir when he left Colony Capital Asia Pacific in 2004 to set up Pangaea Capital Management, an Asia-focused special situations fund manager. Earlier this year, Pangaea became part of Oaktree Capital Management, a US alternative investment group with big plans for the region. The sale has thrust Zulkoski back into the spotlight and brought him back together with former colleagues at Colony. In September, Sharon Lim met him to learn how and why it all happened.
7 min read · 12 January 2013
The Carlyle Group is moving towards closing the largest buyout in Australia since the market got squeezed by the global liquidity crunch sparked by the US subprime mortgage crisis in July.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Asian private equity is going through another record year of fund formation. Sharon Lim explains why, and asks for how much longer the boom can continue.
7 min read · 12 January 2013
Banks and investment groups may have found a cure for debt indigestion in the form of the hung bridge fund. By Andy Thomson.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
The implications of the liquidity crisis remain unclear, but confidence is high that investors will not lose their appetite for private equity – and even the larger funds finding it difficult to finance new deals don't seem to be losing support. Andy Thomson reports.
8 min read · 12 January 2013
