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Industrial projects key focus as PGIM Real Estate Finance generates $1.2 billion in transactions for first half of 2017
NEWARK, N.J., July 19, 2017 - PGIM Real Estate Finance, long attracted to the industrial sector, has closed more than $1.2 billion in commercial mortgage loans within the sector through the first half of 2017 as e-commerce continues to drive industrial development. The loans include transactions in the U.S., the U.K. and Australia, representing about a third of the company’s originations through June 30.
Nathan Sheets joins PGIM Fixed Income as chief economist
NEWARK, N.J., July 17, 2017 - Nathan Sheets has joined PGIM Fixed Income as chief economist and head of Global Macroeconomic Research. With $654 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2017, PGIM Fixed Income is among the largest global fixed income managers. PGIM Fixed Income is a business of PGIM, the global investment management businesses of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE:PRU).
PGIM Fixed Income: The return of absolute return fixed income
Although the majority of the three-decade, bull market in bonds is likely behind us, PGIM Fixed Income believes fixed income, including Absolute Return Fixed Income, still provides plenty of opportunities for investors. In The Return of Absolute Return Fixed Income, Michael Collins, senior investment officer and portfolio manager for Multi-Sector Fixed Income strategies, discusses different types of absolute return fixed income portfolios and how a well-diversified, duration-constrained approach can take advantage of alpha-generating opportunities while avoiding systematic exposure to rising interest rates.
Cameron Sinclair joins PGIM Institutional Relationship Group in Sydney
SYDNEY/NEWARK, June 21, 2017 – Cameron Sinclair has joined PGIM as Head of its Institutional Relationship Group responsible for Australia and New Zealand based in Sydney, Australia. PGIM, among the world’s top 10 asset managers with more than $1 trillion in assets under management, is the global investment management businesses of U.S.-based Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU).
Capturing alpha from growing emerging markets will require new investment approach, PGIM says
NEWARK, N.J., June 19, 2017 - Emerging markets, which already command nearly 60 percent of global GDP on a purchasing power parity basis, will collectively drive global growth over the next decade, but investors would be wise to reconsider how they approach these markets. Increasingly, says PGIM, emerging markets will be the masters of their own economic fate, making a one-size-fits-all classification of emerging markets obsolete.
PGIM Real Estate and Kisco Senior Living joint venture acquires Bay Area senior living community
WALNUT CREEK, CALIF., June 1, 2017 - PGIM Real Estate and Kisco Senior Living have formed a joint venture to acquire and operate Byron Park, a 187-unit independent and assisted living facility in Walnut Creek, Calif. PGIM Real Estate, acting on behalf of institutional investors, is the real estate investment business of PGIM, the global investment businesses of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU).
PGIM Real Estate acquires food storage and distribution centre in Jurong, Singapore
SINGAPORE, May 30, 2017 – PGIM Real Estate has recently completed the acquisition of a food storage and distribution centre at 1 Buroh Lane in Singapore, on behalf of a pan-Asia value-add fund it manages for institutional investors. PGIM Real Estate is the real estate investment business of PGIM, the global investment management businesses of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU).
Josh Cohen will join PGIM as Head of Institutional Defined Contribution Practice
PGIM Real Estate raises MXP$4.4 billion for Mexican private real estate fund
MEXICO CITY, May 11, 2017 – PGIM Real Estate has completed a capital raise of MXP$4.4 billion (USD$235 million) for PruMex IV CKD, a closed-end real estate fund investing across various property sectors in Mexico. PGIM Real Estate is the real estate investment business of PGIM, the global investment management businesses of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE: PRU).