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...The Financial Times reported last month that Blackstone has built a $560mn liability to the US as a result of its return promise after the fund lost value last year....
...It underscores the financial risk Blackstone assumed to draw UC’s investment by promising high returns on property investments hit by rising interest rates....
...“We are looking at spaces literally as we speak,” Kenneth Tropin, founder and chair of the $20bn investment firm, said in an interview with the Financial Times....
...Brookfield has hired Sir Ron Kalifa, the former head of payments group Worldpay, to lead its push into financial infrastructure assets as the Canadian investment group expands further beyond the property...
...Apollo, Brookfield, Carlyle, KKR and JPMorgan all declined to comment....
...KKR, Apollo and Brookfield are among the big private equity groups that are raising energy transition funds as they chase a fast-growing market sucking up vast amounts of capital....
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...Among current predictions, Blackstone’s president Jon Gray said that the commercial property industry sector has or will soon reach its bottom....
...Aareal, which is owned by Advent International and Centerbridge Partners, and its listed German peer Deutsche Pfandbriefbank have been particularly hard-hit by their exposure to US commercial property....
...The Banks Group, which was founded in 1976, also develops property in the north of England and Scotland and it mined coal for more than 40 years until 2020....
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