Jonathan Brasse
Are private asset classes better positioned to weather the crisis? Our senior editorial teams covering PE, private debt, infrastructure, real estate and secondaries provide insight.
Inventory inspections and alternative due diligence methods are the early order of the day for managers and investors alike in the face of widescale working from home requirements.
‘In the current situation, it’s really tough to underwrite something,’ Rainer Komenda, the €80bn Bavarian pension investor’s head of real estate funds, tells PERE.
The moves by Allianz and AXA to combine real estate or alternatives entities are further steps to attract more money to non-traditional asset classes.
The Munich-based insurance powerhouse is moving its Allianz Real Estate platform into its PIMCO asset management business.
Recruiting at the junior levels is becoming a more expensive game to play for the sector’s managers.
The $300m sale of RMB Westport's assets to a core-style vehicle run by a joint venture including bank Investec is expected to precede an IPO within six years. an IPO within six years.
The London-headquartered emerging markets manager has acquired the Sheraton Casablanca and further North African outlays are targeted.
In his first interview with PERE, Emmanuel Van der Stichele sets the agenda in leading one of Blackstone’s high conviction bets - last-mile logistics.
The spreading virus is already thumping the country’s retail and hotel sectors, but its wider impact in the country and further afield cannot be fully assessed yet.