Robin Marriott

Research by Zurich-based asset management and advisory firm, Strategic Capital Management, shows limited partners pushed GPs over terms during the fundraising process in 2009. PERE Magazine, April 2010 issue.

A committee of UK legislators has warned the British government to stand up to Europe over wide-ranging proposals in the AIFM directive. PERE March 2010 issue

The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation has reportedly booked a loss on equity and debt positions taken when Tishman Speyer and BlackRock bought New York City’s Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village in 2006.

Is it time for private equity real estate firms operating in the UK to go on the PR offensive, asks Robin Marriott.

At its CFO Conference in Paris, INREV said there are a considerable number of new fund launches and existing fund investment opportunities in due diligence.

Investors support continuation of fundsin the non-listed real estate market despite their own liquidity issues, says INREV.

PERE's European editor Robin Marriott denotes the mood at European fund management firm, Europa Capital, after its purchase of a portfolio of banks in Spain.

Songbird Estates, the London office company in which Morgan Stanley Real Estate has a stake, has announced a major fundraising to help pay back a loan.

PERE September 2009: Two European professionals at US placement agent CP Eaton have left in recent weeks. The firm has been cost cutting, but the changes at CP Eaton mirror wider challenges in the capital raising industry. By Robin Marriott.

Two senior professionals have departed the firm in the span of two weeks, amid a turbulent period for the placement industry.