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Literally all of them. And all of them are considered highly respectable places to work. It would just be a matter of your fit with the team

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Sure, they're both investing in real estate. One is just investing on a direct JV equity basis (Group B), and one on an indirect / primary basis (Group A).

Example of how this generally works:

Random Pension Fund / Sovereign Wealth Fund / HNW / Fund of Funds (Group A) makes an LP investment (also referred to as a commitment) into Oaktree / Blackstone / KKR's real estate focused fund (Group B). These groups then invest directly in deals with real estate operators / sponsors. Note that in this instance, the Oaktree / Blackstone / KKR type group is the GP of their real estate focused fund.

 

Group A is true Real Estate Private Equity in my mind, this is a firm investing in a company that invest in real estate.

Group B would be a fund that invest in Real Estate or a Real Estate Fund.

The difference is one has mortgages and property, the other has an equity share in a company that invest in real estate. This isn't a hard science this is more of how I would classify them.

Now when it comes to naming the team or if you want to be able to google a team and see which one they are, I have seen a few key words stick out. One example is a "Special Situations" RE fund is a term that would typically put the RE fund into group A for example.

 

Blackstone, KKR, TPG, Apollo, Carlyle, Oaktree, Bain Capital, Ares, Cerberus, Lone Star and all the big Canadian pension funds / sovereign wealth funds.

 
  • BX all over the place in RE and across the different verticals of BREP, BREDS, BTO etc,...

  • Apollo, Lone Star and Cerberus (talking Europe here) mainly focus on NPL secured by RE, instead of doing direct buyouts.

  • Bain is big in NPLs and just recently built a dedicated REPE team.

  • Carlyle struggled a lot and reshuffled their RE team a couple of years ago.

  • At least in Europe KKR does a lot of JVs and some interesting development stuff.

 

Wait good catch. I was referring to Benefit Street Partners (RE Debt), but it looks like they got acquired Franklin Templeton in October 2018.

 

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