Jonathan Brasse
A trend of institutional investors elevating credit-focused executives is a natural and predictable mirror of what is happening with managers.
In her departing interview, the outgoing president and chief executive officer of CDPQ’s real estate business talks about leaving the job, her next role and her ‘natural’ successor.
Amid a stalled private real estate marketplace, institutional investors at the PERE Network Europe Forum contemplated how now could be a good time to buy large office and retail properties.
The partial exit by the Toronto-based manager and its joint venture partner Investment Corporation of Dubai is a marker for institutional investors looking at doing business in the region, Jad Ellawn, Brookfield’s head of Middle East, told PERE.
The firm has hired a former EQT Exeter executive to lead investor engagement, fundraising, co-investment and business development functions.
The Canadian insurer has new goals for its global real estate growth strategy, including expanding into third-party management. PERE spoke with the firm’s leadership on the path forward.
The debut vehicle of ex-Blackstone real estate boss Chad Pike should reveal investor appetite for an unconventionally wide brief.
The Chicago-based industrial specialist has appointed Charles Baigler to grow a continental Europe business.
The ex-Blackstone real estate boss has included three strategies in the investing thesis for his new firm’s maiden fund.
The Hong Kong-based private equity real estate firm is targeting only developed Asia markets for the vehicle.