PREA’s Greg MacKinnon shares findings of a global survey of RE institutional investor intentions.

NEPC Principal Sean Ruhmann argues that slicing and dicing a real estate asset allocation model too far into markets and property types risks creating a beta play in portfolios.

“I think the pendulum has swung slightly back or normalized somewhat in the sense that there is a healthy discussion among LPs and GPs about fund terms in general.”

Jeremy Plummer of CBRE Global Multimanagers and Steve Coyle of Bentall Kennedy share their views on the fund of funds industry, its challenges and future.

“If you have something today that is leased, with today’s market cap rates, financing structure, sell it,” says Equus Capital Partners’ Dan DiLella. “Just don’t hesitate, sell it. This is the time to sell it.”

Drew Fung of Clarion Partners says rising interest rates aren’t affecting mezz lending much, but there are areas of the market to be avoided.

Auditors expect PE firms to “calibrate” their valuations. Experts define what this means.

Adveq’s Sven Lidén tells Privcap about recent research by the London Business School supported by Adveq, which examines what influences pension fund allocations have on private equity.

Rusty Cline describes his dramatic improvement, thanks to new treatments for battling melanoma.

Fundraising is back. Mercury Capital Advisors’ managing partner Alan Pardee takes PrivcapRE on a world tour of LPs open for business.

Alan Pardee, managing partner of Mercury Capital Advisors, explores LP-GP negotiations for real estate funds and walks PrivcapRE through fundraising for two of Asia’s largest fundraises.

In an era of huge data breaches at top corporations, how carefully must private equity firms guard their portfolio and investor data?