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Palmer’s CEO tells PERE the decision to sell an 80% stake in the £1bn firm to Canadian manager Fiera Capital was the upshot of an inflection point for the business.  

The termination of Michael Bütter as CEO at one of Germany’s biggest real estate investment managers was down to ‘personal misconduct' the firm said.  

Ron Kravit, ‘one of the main reasons’ one investor committed capital to the company, will step down after 22 years.

The Canadian insurer’s 56% stake purchase in the merger between its real estate investment business Bentall Kennedy and GreenOak Real Estate will allow it to offer its investors strategies from core to opportunistic.

PERE talks with several experts to break down the opportunities, risks and rules that come with the new US federal program creating buzz among real estate investors.

After weeks of deliberation, we can reveal the organizations and individuals nominated for PERE’s prestigious private real estate industry awards.

Tom Arnold, global head of real estate at the world’s biggest private real estate institutional investor, ADIA, knows real estate portfolios must be reinvented to stave off obsolescence – just like any other product or service. He told PERE’s New York audience how the Abu Dhabi-based investor is keeping itself fresh.

Ex-Forum Partners Asia head Gregory Wells is the Asian real estate beneficiary of the private equity firm’s ‘entrepreneur-in residence’ venture capital program.

Gary Phillips, managing director and head of acquisitions at the real estate investment firm, sees an opportunity as other investors hit the pause button.

These are the men and women you want in your corner when fundraising in today’s ultra-competitive capital markets.