Arshiya Khullar
Having a local presence greatly influences the investment decisions of Korean institutional investors, delegates heard at the PERE Investor Forum Seoul 2018.
Investing in the asset class overseas is not meeting the South Korean insurer’s target investment returns, according to Janghwan Lee, executive director, team leader of alternative investment team.
Ex-Forum Partners Asia head Gregory Wells is the Asian real estate beneficiary of the private equity firm’s ‘entrepreneur-in residence’ venture capital program.
The Singapore-based real estate manager is targeting a minimum capital raise of $500m for its second pan Asia value-add fund.
The New York-headquartered private equity firm has made a $181m initial entity-level investment into Weave Co-Living, a business set up by the former head of the Dutch investor’s Asian non-listed real estate investments.
PERE’s annual conference in Tokyo saw some of the biggest names in the Japanese institutional investor community outline their investment strategy.
Tadasu Matsuo, managing director and head of alternative investment at Japan Post Insurance, lays out the investor’s diversified portfolio investment strategy in a freewheeling interview with PERE.
The trade war between the US and China, coupled with cap rate compression, is making investors and their managers reassess their Asia-Pacific investment strategies.
Lower cost of hedging is putting Australia back on the map for overseas investors like the Japanese institutions, says Richard Stacker, chief executive officer for industrial at Charter Hall Group.
The Hong Kong-based private equity real estate firm has set a $2bn hard-cap target for its sixth pan-Asia opportunistic real estate fund.