“Rain does not fall on one roof alone.” (African proverb) Albeit debating the reasons along ideological lines, the world is getting to grips that climate change is an undeniable...
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The Fund Manager
Sub-Saharan housing markets
What Blackstone's recent US housing deals tell us. In late June 2021, Blackstone acquired Home Partners of America Inc (HPA), a company owning roughly 17,000 single-family homes...
The Fund Manager
Click bait in sub-Saharan Africa
Is this the digital worlds last frontier? "We are all now connected by the internet, like neurons in a giant brain" –Stephen Hawking Looking at a map depicting global internet...
Golden Oldie
Rock ’n’ roll train – high-speed rail outside China
Originally published April 2021. 3 July 1938 was a milestone for British engineering. The LNER 4468 Mallard set a new world speed record for steam-powered locomotives between...
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Back to the future: why clawbacks will revolutionise the PE fund management industry
When the annual PERE/Sousou Partners 2021 compensation survey appeared in my LinkedIn feed earlier this year, I couldn’t help but notice the somber headline: Private real estate...
Technology
The SolarWinds hack and its proptech implications
On 16 December 2020 the following joint statement was issued by the FBI, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency and the Office of the Director of National...