The deal combines BGO’s core, core-plus, value-add and debt strategies with Metropolitan’s integrated primary, secondary and co-investment real estate strategies to create a combined and diversified real estate platform.
Aventura, Fla.-based Kawa specializes in real estate financing, including bridge lending, mezzanine financing, structured credit, net leased real estate equity, ground leases and credit tenant leases.
Plan will conduct further due diligence on three emerging markets equity managers following review of an initial search report at this week’s investment committee meeting.
A Midwestern employees pension plan concluded the first phase of an ongoing search with the hire of two multi-strategy and two mezzanine opportunistic credit managers at today’s board meeting.