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A survey suggests that financial chaos from the US is affecting real estate investment in Asia, though investors are still keen to access the region for the growth and diversification it offers.
The world’s second largest sovereign fund’s recently launched capital strategies group will invest five percent of its assets in private real estate deals, but says private equity is ‘not part of the investment universe’.
Keith Lindsay, the former global head of hospitality and leisure at AIG Global Real Estate, has been appointed to oversee Orco's hospitality investments in Central Europe.
Colorado-based SV Capital has appointed former president and chief executive officer of industrial giant ProLogis’ North America division John Seiple Jr. as a partner to focus on the firm’s capital markets activities.
Less than a month after opening offices in Brazil and Mexico, the McLean, Virginia-based firm has appointed a former MIRA executive to assess the risks of investing in Latin American residential and commercial real estate.
The firm has up to €9 billion available with leverage for its third European real estate fund, making it one of Europe’s largest private equity real estate funds.
The Hong Kong firm targeting $100m for its Cambodia fund has raised $11m and is on the verge of closing its first deal.
The Texas private equity firm has purchased ‘certain operating assets’ from the US investment bank, which was sold last week to JPMorgan.
The BVCA, EVCA and CBI are together lobbying Brussels as an EU committee mulls mandatory regulation of alternative investment funds as proposed by former Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen.
The $39bn fund, which manages income from the state’s oil and mineral resources, has also cut its domestic equity and fixed-income exposure.
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