News & Analysis

The country’s government pension fund will invest about $650m in global private equity and real estate in the coming months.
The Medical City, a Philippine hospital, has received an investment from San Francisco-based Lombard Investments.
Los Angeles-based multi-family investor IMT Capital has acquired a 253-unit townhouse and apartment complex in California’s Ventura County.
Private equity firms Colony Capital and Eurazeo plan to increase their stake in the hotel group Accor, which owns the Pullman and Ibis hotel chains, to 30 percent.
Private equity firms Colony Capital and Eurazeo plan to increase their stake in the hotel group Accor, which owns the Pullman and Ibis hotel chains, to 30 percent. Both firms pledge not to take control of the company.
Boston-based Beacon Capital Partners to expand focus on offices in key knowledge-based cities with its sixth value-add fund, Beacon Capital Strategic Partners VI.
The US real estate investment firm – expected to close on its $500m retail fund later this year – has picked up the Deerfield Plaza complex in Omaha, Nebraska.
A joint venture between the private real estate investor and Davidson Hotel Company have just snapped up the 259-unit Sheraton Suites Tampa Airport/Westshore in Florida’s upscale Westshore submarket.
Few people would ever profess to be able to call the bottom of the market. However it appears a consensus is emerging among private equity real estate professionals over when the best opportunities are to be had: in the second half of 2008. 
Former Los Angeles City Employees Retirement System general manager Robert Aguallo has moved to the private sector joining infrastructure investors Cardinal Americas.
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