ANREV Event - Farewell 2015 and trends in 2016

10 Dec 2015 @ Singapore

ANREV EVENT
THURSDAY 10 DECEMBER 2015
SINGAPORE      

 

 

 

 

Farewell 2015 and trends in 2016

ANREV is pleased to invite you to an event on 10 December in Singapore at UBS Global Asset Management’s offices. At this event, a panel of industry experts will summarise what worked and what didn’t this year in the private equity real estate market and the outlook for 2016. The panel discussion will be followed by networking drinks.

We would like to thanks UBS Singapore for offering the event venue.

Details
Date : Thursday 10 December 2015
Time : 17:00 – 18:00 Presentation & panel discussion
    18:00 – 20:00 networking drinks
Venue     : UBS Offices (Raffles Auditorium), One Raffles Quay, #49-01 North Tower,     Singapore
RSVP    : Please email to [email protected]
Fees : Free of charge for ANREV members and institutional investors.
   SGD50 for non-members.
Moderator & presenter Dr Megan Walters FRICS, Head of Research –
    Asia Pacific Capital Markets, JLL
Panelists: Alan Miyasaki, Senior Managing Director –
    Head of Asia Acquisitions, Blackstone
    Skip Schwartz, Managing Director – Private Equity Asia Pacific, Heitman
    Charlene Huang, Co-Head APAC – Global Multi-Managers & Securities,
    Global Real Estate, UBS Global Asset management

Speakers’ bio follows:

 

Dr Megan Walters FRICS
Head of Research – Asia Pacific Capital Markets
JLL

Dr Megan Walters heads research for Asia Pacific Capital Markets at Jones Lang LaSalle and is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors with over twenty years’ experience in real estate, having first moved to Asia in 1995. Dr Walters is responsible for the research in the Capital Markets business which last year transacted over USD 20 billion of deals in AP. Megan was an Adjunct Assoc Professor at National University of Singapore and holds a PhD from the University of Hong Kong. Megan sits on the International Governing Council of the RICS, on the research committees of APREA and ANREV, and has presented at the International Monetary Fund training institute on the effects of real estate on financial stability.

 

Alan Miyasaki
Senior Managing Director – Head of Asia Acquisitions
Blackstone

Alan Miyasaki is a Senior Managing Director in the Real Estate Group and the Head of Asia Acquisitions, based in Singapore. Since joining Blackstone in 2001, Mr. Miyakasi has been involved in transactions of over $30 billion including the privatizations of Extended Stay America, Prime Hospitality, La Quinta and Valad Property Group.

Since 2007, Mr. Miyasaki has worked to build Blackstone’s real estate business in Asia, including advising AIG on the $1.2 billion sales of the AIG Building in Tokyo and the acquisitions of $3.6 billion of distressed real estate loans in Australia and Japan.

Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Miyasaki was with Starwood Capital Group, where he worked in acquisitions. Mr. Miyasaki received a BS in Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated cum laude.

 

Skip Schwartz
Managing Director – Private Equity, Asia Pacific
Heitman

Skip Schwartz is the Managing Director of Heitman's Asia-Pacific Private Real Estate Equity group, a member of Heitman's Asia-Pacific Management Committee and Asia-Pacific Private Equity Investment Committee, and an equity owner of the firm. He is responsible for creating the firm's investment platform in the Asia-Pacific region and oversees the regional team as well as sources new real estate investments and joint venture partnerships across Asia-Pacific. Skip is also responsible for overseeing the acquisitions and asset management process for a large private equity global separate account.

Since arriving in the region in 2008, he has grown the regional AUM to nearly $1 billion. He moved to Heitman's Hong Kong office in 2013, after spending five years in Tokyo. Prior to relocating to Tokyo, Skip was in Heitman's London and Frankfurt offices for a total of seven years and was involved in over $1.25 billion of investment, joint venture and development transactions across Central Europe and Germany. During his prior five years in the company's Chicago headquarters, he was involved in approximately $450 million of transactions across the U.S.

Skip received his BA with honors in International Relations and his MA in Organizational Behavior from Stanford University. He received his MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Skip is also a member of ANREV and on the Executive Committee of ULI, North Asia.

   

Charlene Huang
Co-Head APAC – Global Multi-Managers & Securities, GRE Director
UBS Global Asset Management

Years of investment industry experience: 10

Education: Monash University (AU), BA

  • Charlene Huang was appointed APAC Portfolio Manager for Global Real Estate Multi-Managers (GMM) since December 2014.  She is responsible for investment selection and growing the GMM client and product franchise for the Asia Pacific region. Charlene first joined the APAC Global Multi-Managers team in 2011 as an Assistant Portfolio Manager.
     
  • Charlene is a voting member of the UBS GRE APAC Management Committee as well as a member of the Singapore Risk and Local Management Committee of UBS Global Asset Management.
     
  • Prior to relocating to Singapore in 2011, Charlene was working with the Global Multi-Managers team in London where she worked on the wind down of a large global portfolio of indirect real estate holdings. Charlene first started her career as an analyst at UBS Wealth Management in 2007.
     
  • Prior to this, Charlene worked for Investment Property Databank (IPD) in the UK, with a focus on performance analysis.

To download the PDF invitation, please click here.