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Evelyn Lee

Evelyn Lee is Editor for PEI Group’s real estate-focused publication, PERE, overseeing global news coverage for both its digital and print platforms. Based in London, she manages a team of journalists across PEI’s offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. She joined the company in its New York office in July 2011 as a reporter covering the industry in the Americas. She became senior reporter in January 2014 and was promoted to news editor in July 2015. Evelyn relocated to PEI's headquarters office in London in 2018 and was promoted to editor in 2019. Prior to joining PEI in 2011 she covered commercial real estate, economic development and environmental issues at NJBIZ, a New Jersey-focused business publication.
The firm has launched the strategy at a time when real estate financing ‘is a pretty broken market,' according to CEO Jon Winkelried.
Julie Donegan, CalSTRS
Taking charge of the pension giant’s $50bn AUM property business is a daunting task. But Julie Donegan is prepared for the challenge.
The New York skyline
Over 80% of institutions in the capital advisory firm’s latest Allocations Monitor are now actively considering fund investments.
The New York-based banking giant has been working to actively reduce its balance-sheet exposure to the sector since the start of the year.
KKR global real estate head Ralph Rosenberg expects capital constraints to also cause pain for owners outside of the office sector.
The newly created role is part of the investor's revamped leadership structure under new executive chair Daniel Fournier.
Real estate silos
The original justification for Canadian pension plans having standalone property platforms no longer holds up today.
PERE Europe 2023
However, some institutions believe equity deals still are more attractive than debt investments in multiple respects.
With loans maturing and banks retrenching, alternative lenders are seeing more refinancing deals. But ‘a lot of them we see just don’t work.’
Regional banks had stepped in to fill the void left by other lenders. Who will replace them if they stop lending, too?
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