News & Analysis

Danish investment firm Sparinvest has closed its fund of funds on $640m, which will invest in property vehicles around the world.

The Dubai fund of funds manager is hoping to be one of the first to offer access to the Indian private equity market via a quoted vehicle with a $100 million float of a fund on AIM, London’s alternative segment.

The investment bank has teamed up with Brazilian private equity firm GP Investments to form a $400-million property venture focused on Brazil.

The real estate and private equity teams within Goldman Sachs’ merchant banking division will help manage the giant new infrastructure fund.

Trumped in Aberdeenshire 2007-01-01 Staff Writer It's not every day that a billionaire real estate mogul gets walloped by a crew of elderly country folk. But that's what happened in Scotland last month when a local council committee in Aberdeenshire rejected Donald Trump's plan to build two championship golf

Enter the Frontier 2007-01-01 Staff Writer A <italic>PERE</italic> staffer once overheard an instructive real estate truism that is equally helpful in framing any discussion of investment in “frontier” markets.<br /> <br /> The scene: Manhattan, West Village, a young woman walking o

Racing development 2007-01-01 Staff Writer The Brooklands motor racing circuit in Surrey, England has played a central role in the history of racing. When British entrepreneur Hugh Fortescue Locke-King first built the site in 1907, it included the world's first banked motor race circuit. It was also the seco

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Massive sporting events on the horizon in Beijing and Delhi are shining a spotlight on the underserved hospitality sector in Asia. Private equity real estate GPs are already checking in to this opportunity. By Dave Keating

With a pressing need for higher returns and greater diversification, labor union pension funds – commonly called Taft-Hartley plans – are slowly making moves toward private equity real estate. By Eva Poon