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The Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund is left with no permanent global head of real estate or regional heads of real estate.

The death of Yale University chief investment officer David Swensen has sent reverberations through the private investment industry.

Two Sigma, a financial sciences company with $58bn in assets under management, has launched a real estate investment management business that will initially focus on North America.

The appointment at advisory firm Sera Global follows that of Kilian Toms who joined in March from Landmark Partners to focus on EMEA.

Jim Barry, who previously helmed the unit in addition to being global CIO at BlackRock Alternative Investors, will now focus on the latter role.

The head of Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies in Europe will take on Amy Klein Aznar’s role at LaSalle as she becomes executive chair of the business.

The chief executive of the real estate investment manager’s European business talks about his favorite sport, his communication style and dreaming in Excel.

QuadReal was able to avoid the paralysis of the investment market during the pandemic by focusing on build-to-core strategies. This has enabled CEO Dennis Lopez to stay on target in making the British Columbian pension system a global force in private real estate.

The new hire will help to lead investments in Europe while the New York-based private markets firm also plans to step up deployment in Asia.

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