News & Analysis

The European private equity firm has stormed into Sweden’s renewable energy sector with a deal to finance and take an equity stake in the country's largest onshore wind farm development Havsnas.

The property investment firm has acquired a portfolio of three Burbank, California office buildings located in the state’s media district.

The pension’s overall annual return of 4.5 percent – its lowest return in five years – was boosted by alternatives. Teachers’ annual report said real estate was the highest performing asset class returning 14.7 percent.

The China Securities Regulatory Commission has taken steps to give the country’s securities firms access to the private equity market, as China continues to formalise its regulation of domestic private equity.

The former president of Scandinavian exchange OMX is joining the quoted Finnish alternative assets manager to head its planned fund for investing in listed stocks.

The New York Common Retirement Fund has taken a 51 percent stake in Shurgard, the European arm of US company Public Storage.

The private equity firm said it had closed its ninth real estate fund and the largest fund ever raised as it promises to take advantage of the current market dislocation.

The Delhi-based publishing house is reportedly in talks with international private equity firms to sell equity in a mixed-use development it owns.

The Swiss bank, which today wrote down $19 billion of assets, saw its chairman Marcel Ospel resign and reported a first quarter loss of $12.1bn, is to create a separate vehicle to own ‘problem assets.’

The US private equity firm has agreed to buy a €1bn portfolio from the logistics subsidiary of German mailing company Deutsche Post.