Property is big business for banks. In the past five years, bank-owned private equity firms have raised $47.9bn in property funds. Alternative investment data provider Preqin says the biggest are Morgan Stanley’s $8bn MSREF VI global …

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A steal Bear Stearns by JP Morgan Chase, Merrill Lynch was bought by Bank of America and Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to convert to bank holding companies, just to stay in business . Five major investment banks. . . andthen there …

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While at Merrill Lynch, he also oversaw the firm’s private equity and real estate investment businesses . Mr. Gorman said, “I am delighted that Greg will be joining Morgan Stanley’s leadership team. I am fortunate to have previously …

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Business Week* reports that Morgan Stanley, and other moneylenders are investing in African agricultural land. In the first six months of this year, private equity funds “lined up more than $2 billion to invest in farmland. …

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“Does the Obama Administration have less business experience? According to some semi-whimsical (I think) research in a new JP Morgan report that would seem to be the case. The author looked at private sector experience of 432 Cabinet …

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Devin Murphy has returned to Morgan Stanley’s real estate division as a managing director five years after he left to run Deutsche Bank’s real estate investment banking division.

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