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BNP to raise up to €1bn for PE, real estate investment

The bank has included a mid-market PE fund and a tech-focused fund on a short list of target commitments to be made on behalf of a high-net-worth investor base with a growing appetite for the asset class.

2 min read · 17 April 2018

UBS forms $90bn private markets business

The bank plans to grow its private equity fund of funds business from $2bn to $10bn.

3 min read · 01 February 2017

ADIA opens office in Hong Kong for research purposes

The preeminent sovereign wealth fund of the country has opened a satellite office in Hong Kong which will house research professionals.

2 min read · 27 October 2016

Partners buys in New Zealand Super sale

Partners Group has picked up five real estate fund positions from the New Zealand investor, which is looking to exit from the asset class.

2 min read · 09 May 2016

Japanese ‘big four’ pension issues first alternatives mandates

The $65 billion Federation of National Public Service Personnel Mutual Aid Associations has issued a request for proposals from external alternative investment managers in what was described as “one giant step for Japanese public pensions”.

2 min read · 26 October 2015

Doughty Hanson to cease RE, venture investing(2)

The London-based firm will concentrate its efforts on its core private equity business.

2 min read · 22 January 2014

Brookfield hires ex-RREEF Asia head Thassim(2)

The global alternative asset manager has appointed Niel Thassim as head of Asia for its Private Funds Group to drive fundraising for private investment vehicles across its asset classes.

2 min read · 22 January 2014

BMI: China RE poised for ‘hard landing’(2)

High prices and excessive borrowing from the country’s banks are some factors keeping the mainland property market in increasingly precarious 'bubble territory', according to Business Monitor International (BMI).

3 min read · 22 January 2014

Invesco launches Asia RE funds

Two years after Invesco acquired the Asian real estate business of AIG, the firm is raising an $800m opportunity fund and a rare open-ended, core-focused vehicle for which it expects to attract $1bn in five years.

2 min read · 21 September 2013

China Resources Land ties up with Blackstone

Hong Kong-listed developer China Resources Land has partnered Blackstone to develop a 6.45 million-square-foot mass housing development near Shanghai that could cost $1.8bn.

2 min read · 21 September 2013

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