Mistakes Emerging Managers Make With Commingled Funds - Institutional...
With just 12 percent of all capital raised in funds going to emerging managers in 2015—the lowest proportion since 2007—real estate operators should consider structures beyond the commingled blind pool...
View ArticleWhy RE Needs a True Secondaries Market - Institutional Portfolio – Privcap
Jim Valente, head of real estate at MSCI, says the private real estate investment industry is still lagging in developing a genuine secondaries market, despite high–profile fundraises and deals, not...
View ArticleWhere FIRPTA Reforms Will Hurt Most - Institutional Portfolio – Privcap
The recently passed FIRPTA reforms have a major impact on foreign investors in U.S. real estate. Experts from AFIRE and Wafra discuss. The reforms to the Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act of...
View ArticleGauging Foreign LP Appetite for U.S. CRE - Institutional Portfolio – Privcap
Foreign investors continue to see U.S. real estate as the best place globally to invest their equity, however it’s a cautionary tale, says Wafra’s Frank Lively in a discussion with AFIRE’s Jim...
View ArticleHow Anbang Will Take Over the World - Institutional Portfolio – Privcap
Chinese insurer Anbang Insurance Group has made waves offering $13B to take over Starwood Hotels, just hours after spending $6.5B on Blackstone’s Strategic Hotels. The group’s ambitions are not just to...
View ArticleThe Future of Real Estate: the City or the Suburb? - Institutional Portfolio...
Fund managers and lenders are increasingly focused on the growth of cities thanks to demographic and urbanizations forces. But are they missing a trick in the suburbs? The future of real estate is in...
View ArticleWhy Women Don’t Aspire to the CRE C-Suite - Institutional Portfolio – Privcap
There’s a gender pay gap between men and women within U.S. commercial real estate and just a small percentage of women aspire to join the C-suite compared to men. The latter raises significant...
View ArticleThe Funds That Could Drive RE Secondaries Growth - Institutional Portfolio –...
Real estate secondaries deals hit new highs in 2015, with more than $8.2B of transactions taking place across closed-ended funds alone. While 2016 year-end volume might be more static, Jamie Sunday, a...
View ArticleOne Type of Transaction is Key to Pricing RE Secondaries - Institutional...
Pricing is critical when it comes to closing any deal, but for real estate secondaries pricing can sometimes be an optical illusion. In the second part of an interview on the state of the RE...
View ArticleLatAm LPs Ramp Up Real Estate Exposure - Institutional Portfolio – Privcap
Domestic investors in Latin America are turning their attention to real estate as they look for greater yields on their investments, according to experts from PGIM Real Estate and GID International....
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