More than 10,000 votes were cast for the third annual PERE Awards and here – over the next dozen pages – we present the winners and runners-up of the Asia and rest of world awards. By Robin Marriott, Jonathan Brasse and Zoe Hughes. PERE March 2009
10 min read · 08 February 2013
Though investment by domestic firms in Chinese real estate rose dramatically in the first half of 2008, investment by foreign firms fell sharply. Have Western investors fled from Chinese real estate for the time being? PERE Magazine December 2008/January 2009 issue
3 min read · 08 February 2013
The talk of the town has been the potential for LPs to default on capital calls. It may be just noise at the moment but it is raising questions about counterparty risk. For their part, LPs want greater transparency for their cash. PERE Magazine December 2008/January 2009
4 min read · 08 February 2013
In the first in a two part series on debt buybacks, Steven Bortnick, Bradley Boericke and Timothy Leska explores the legal implications a private equity firm must consider when structuring the debt purchase. In our February issue, they will examine the tax implications
7 min read · 08 February 2013
The head of Castle Harlan is adding to the criticism that fair-value accounting is contributing to the economic crisis
4 min read · 08 February 2013
AFRICA IN BRIEF 2009-01-01 Staff Writer Tunga Management Company, a newly launched infrastructure, mining and private equity fund formed by Namibian affiliates of South African asset manager OldMutual Group, will sell a 26 percent stake in itself to a <bold>black empowerment enterprise</bold> (BE
3 min read · 08 February 2013
Private equity fund managers marking their investments to market may be doing their over-allocated LPs a muchneeded favour
4 min read · 08 February 2013
A meltdown in the buyout industry may lead to an outbreak of symptoms last seen during venture capital's black plague
4 min read · 08 February 2013
Investors prepared to place bold bets in the hope of outsized returns might find what they're looking for in the world's so-called frontier markets. Yvette Choo finds out why Cambodia and Mongolia merit serious consideration.
8 min read · 08 February 2013
As some LPs actively seek to liquidate their real estate assets in the secondaries market, other more well capitalised limited partners are eyeing the sector as a potential investment opportunity. However with so much uncertainty in the market, the task of underwriting those positions is now much more daunting. PERE Magazine December 2008/January 2009 issue.
5 min read · 08 February 2013
