Investors

The updated pacing plan, which will be presented at the investment committee’s April 14 meeting, reveals that the largest US pension plan could deploy as much as $5.7 billion in the asset class in just over one year.

The Hong Kong-based firm has teamed up with Zug-based Partners’ Group to buy Pacific Century Place in Beijing for $928 million.

The boutique European fund manager run by Saul Goldstein has far exceeded its €325 million target for Activum SG Fund III.

The European real estate investment management business of US insurer Prudential Financial has described the Dutch property market as being attractive for being ‘earlier in the recovery phase’ than the UK.

GIC has emerged in pole position to buy one of Tokyo’s largest assets in a transaction that would bring seller Lone Star’s 12-year ownership to a close.

Competition for assets is ‘fierce’ says accountant KPMG as New York-based Cerberus Capital Management agrees the purchase of a portfolio of loans sold by Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency (NAMA)

Wessal Capital’s first investment is a €530 million project to transform Casablanca’s port. The private equity-style vehicle’ is backed by state investment funds of Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, State of Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

The Cape Town-based real estate fund manager ultimately wants to coral $250 million for investments across Sub-Saharan Africa ex-South Africa.

  The asset management arm of the Frankfurt-based bank is predicting a slight downturn in core office and retail yields in two of Asia’s mature markets.  

The two firms have committed about $160 million to an Australian club vehicle focused on industrial property managed by Propertylink.