Evelyn Lee
Sébastien Bazin, after 16 years at the Los Angeles-based private investment firm, has left to head Accor, one of Colony’s largest investments in the region. Meanwhile, the firm has appointed two of its principals to replace Bazin.
The Chicago-based private equity real estate firm has harvested about a quarter of the assets in its first Mexico fund as it prepares for its largest fundraise to date in the Latin American nation.
As part of its new fiscal year investment plan, the $40.2 billion pension system is expected to continue bulking up its property holdings, including non-core real estate, where it currently is underweighted.
Anne Pfeiffer, a 34-year veteran of the firm, is one of the top executives within the New York-based asset management firm’s 400-person global real assets team and also oversees its flagship US core real estate fund.
Through the transaction, Regency Centers will be exiting the remaining investments in its open-ended retail real estate fund.
The New York-based private equity and real estate firm's planned $2.7 billion apartment acquisition from GE Capital will provide the critical mass needed to build its latest property business.
Timothy Walsh, who has overseen investments for the $74.30 billion pension plan for three years, will be joining a real estate fund manager to help build up its North America business.
REIT manager Cohen & Steers and its private equity real estate team were an unlikely pairing from the get-go. But various factors made it impossible for them to stay together.
The New York-based private equity real estate firm’s latest capital raise far exceeded its initial target, and is equal in size to its previous two funds combined.
The publicly-traded real estate business of the Toronto-based alternative asset management firm has agreed to buy Industrial Development International for $1.1 billion, marking its second industrial platform investment in as many months.