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The US and UK-based investor has paid £571m for 290 managed pubs from Punch Taverns, its largest deal in Europe to date.

European mezzanine provider Intermediate Capital Group also put a record amount of capital to work in the fourteen months to 2005, arranging or providing £899m of debt financing.

Leisure parks in Europe attract customers from across the world. US and European private equity firms, it seems, are also along for the ride. By Robert Venes.

Universities Superannuation Scheme, a UK pension fund with £22bn under management, is reportedly thinking of moving up to 20% of assets into strategies including private equity and infrastructure.

A new set of private equity valuation guidelines have been endorsed in the farthest corners of the world - but not in the US. By Judy Kuan.

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The Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System has been steadily increasing its real estate investments.

As the economies of Asia take flight, PERE takes a trip around the region to look at the residential markets of China, Japan and India— what is making them tick, what do buyers want and how can foreign funds participate? By Aaron Lovell

As activity in the European hospitality sector accelerates, private equity firms are reshaping the industry's ownership structure, begging the question as to who will own hotels in the future. By Arthur de Haast, global chief executive officer at Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels