Asia-Pacific

Malaysia’s Employees Provident Fund and Townsend are among the investors in KaiLong’s second China real estate vehicle.

The Houston-based private equity real estate firm is planning to launch a new open-ended vehicle focused on the region early next year.

The number of fund closes continues to decrease, but equity raised remains robust.

PERE is now calling for submissions for 65 categories in this year's awards – our largest ever. Help us get the ball rolling by letting us know who deserves to be shortlisted.

The country’s government-linked companies are making a push towards better management and transparency. EPF’s decision to hire Savills to look after its domestic portfolio is one step in that direction.

Nine out of the 10 are from the same geographic region, while one city is the second-most liquid real estate market in the world.

The real estate investment group of the German insurer saw its RE debt assets under management drop from €19.3bn in 2018 to €18.9bn in H1 2019.

Following positive return performances in 2018, family office allocations to the strategy increased by 2.1 percentage points – more than any other asset class.

Investors believe health and well-being initiatives are worthwhile, but find it hard to quantify any increase in value from these measures.

The Canadian pension has scaled up its credit operations in North America and Europe and is turning to China and India as part of a global expansion.