PEAK PERFORMANCE 2008-06-01 Staff Writer ‘Long-term performance is what matters in private equity‘. This oft-recited statement is a truism in the sense that clearly what happens over a ten-year period is of more significance than, let's say, a mere 12 months. Keeping the thought firmly at the front of one's
Reasons to be fearful
HarbourVest Global Private Equity has reaped a 3.9 percent gain in net asset value almost exclusively from secondary interests in its private parent company.
Standard Life European Private Equity Trust has seen 185 percent gain in net asset value over the past five years and a 10 percent gain over the last six months.
One of Japan’s first institutional investors to embrace private equity will reportedly augment its investment in private equity and hedge funds by some $500m.
One of Japan’s first institutional investors to embrace private equity will reportedly augment its investment in private equity and hedge funds by some $500m.
The $9bn distressed investment specialist will provide more than half a billion dollars to bail out Standard Pacific, buffeted by the sinking Southern California real estate market.
The UK finance provider’s full-year fiscal profits climbed 8 percent as banks continue to suffer from the credit troubles.
In a sign of the returning health of US REITs, the iconic New York building has been snapped up by New York-listed Boston Properties, setting a record in the process as the most paid ever for a US office block.
Anecdotal evidence suggests German institutional investors are increasingly switching billions of euros invested directly in real estate into property funds.