Fiera Capital's property arm is raising one of the only semi-open-ended real estate credit vehicles targeting the region.
Blackstone's president and chief operating officer considers real estate debt to be ‘an area of growth' for the firm.
Aquilius co-founder Bastian Wolff spent 15 years at Partners Group, including most recently as head of Asia private real estate.
Capital raised from European investors fell the most by almost 43% as the region was hard-hit by the denominator effect.
The industry veteran is joining the New York-based credit shop as it closes its first institutional private fund.
With liquidity set to tighten further as banks continue to retrench, alternatives lenders are seeing opportunities across the spectrum.
The firm's global co-head of real estate says having $30bn of equity to deploy, at a time when debt is harder to get, is a ‘valuable asset.’
The Italian asset manager has also partnered with a consortium of housing co-operatives to boost social housing development across the country.
The firm expects family offices and high-net-worth individuals to make up a higher percentage of Fund II’s capital than with its predecessor.
The plan comes less than a year after DNE raised its first China-focused fund to target the sector.
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