Jonathan Brasse
Jonathan Brasse is the Senior Editor, Real Estate for PEI Media’s real estate publications. He oversees the editorial output and leads the reporting team behind the sector-leading private real estate publication PERE as well as Real Estate Capital, the group’s real estate credit markets publication. Jonathan joined PEI in 2009 from UK commercial property magazine Property Week where he oversaw international news and analysis coverage.
Ed Greene, who led CP Eaton's Asian placement business, has established Diamond Dragon Advisors to advise on alternative investment funds.
Mark Burton, the former real estate chief investment officer at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and the Abu Dhabi Investment Council (ADIC) has taken up an advisory role at the newly-established real estate advisory board at Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages the capital of Norway’s giant sovereign wealth fund.
South Korea’s largest telecommunications company, KT Corporation has appointed Kim Kyung-soo, a former Lone Star executive, to lead its newly launched property management firm.
Mumbai-based alternative investment firm, IL&FS Investment Managers is to bolt management of $400 million of assets onto its books after approving the takeover of rival Saffron Asset Advisors. A merger would be the first significant consolidation in India’s private equity real estate market since the global economic crisis.
The New York-based alternative assets firm has increased the firepower of its AG Asia Realty Fund II after US pension fund the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System committed $100m.
The $242 billion National Pension Service of Korea is planning to grow its alternative assets allocation to more than 10 percent of total assets in 2014. The allocation represents a meteoric rise on the 3.8 percent target allocation set in 2008.
Through its joint venture hotel investment company with New York’s Host Hotels, the Singaporean sovereign wealth fund is preparing to increase its exposure to Indian hospitality assets.
The $242bn National Pension Service of Korea will grow its alternatives allocation to more than 10% of total assets by 2014.
The LA-based firm becomes the second private equity house to buy a substantial distressed debt portfolio held by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation this week following Colony Capital’s capture of a 1,660 strong loan portfolio.
daVinci founder Osamu Kaneko's reign as president has ended as Fortress has bought $230m of its debt, Nikkei reported.