PEI Staff

EQT Exeter names 15-year company veteran Henry Steinberg as the successor to departing founder Ward Fitzgerald; Starwood makes a takeover bid with an offer to privatize Columbia Threadneedle’s Balanced Commercial Property Trust; PERE and its affiliate titles are calling all investors to participate in the 2025 Investor Perspectives Survey; and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Office headwinds keep heavyweight investors CDPQ and NBIM's real estate performance down; CPPIB performs a strategic U-turn and returns to cutting big checks to mega-funds, with a commitment to Blackstone's latest European opportunity fund; ex-CalPERS real estate boss Ted Eliopoulos bolsters the capital markets capabilities of the world's biggest logistics landlord; and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund has upped its allocation to private real estate, despite being the only alternative asset class in the investor’s portfolio to record a dip in return during its 2023 fiscal year; Starwood nears halfway mark in its capital raise for Fund XIII, showing little impact from SREIT’s woes; HIG Capital wraps up its third European value-add fundraise, marking the largest fund targeting the region to close this year; and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

A new government in the UK has private real estate hoping for smoother sailing after years of political upheaval; Lone Star Funds closes its 12th opportunity fund in a series targeting emerging opportunities in distressed parts of the market; ongoing challenges for Blackstone’s Sponda platform in Finland in the form a note downgrade; and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Inside: Meet Samuel – Can APG’s digital portfolio manager give the investor an edge?; PERE’s ranking of the 100 biggest global investors revealed; GIC’s investing spree; A US debt roundtable; Plus much more…

New types of transactions are emerging that stretch the definition of secondaries in what is a deceptively large and growing market.

He said it “I don’t think there’s anything brilliant out there at the moment. It’s all pretty much conventional wisdom.” Jeff Giller, partner and head of StepStone Real Estate, told PERE last week as he described today’s investment recommendations to the firm’s investor clients. What’s new? The price is not right What would have been the largest deal in […]

Brookfield's core-plus expansion; real estate's PPP loan recipients; UBS's Joe Azelby on covid-19; and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Private real estate's newest alternative asset class; the top tech innovations to break your covid slump; the latest take on office investment, and more in today's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.

Tech innovation is a modest part of most real estate managers' investment strategies, but those who fall risk being left behind