Blueprint: ART’s $1bn Almanac mandate, Apollo’s Bridge to real estate primacy, PERE Asia Summit, and more

Mega-deals top the private real estate headlines this week as Australian Retirement Trust and Almanac Realty Investors go hunting for US operating companies while Apollo agrees to buy Bridge Investment Group in a transaction poised to make it one of the industry's biggest managers. Elsewhere, Sculptor Capital Management raises its largest-ever property fund, Hines recruits a veteran APAC capital raiser, and more in this week's briefing, exclusively for our valued subscribers.