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Some industry experts believe that returns from these investments could rival the huge profits pocketed by investors during the Government Resolution Trust Corp. bailout of the savings-and-loan debacle of the late 1980s and early '90s. Back then, vulture investors picked up distressed assets at pennies on the dollar, and returns often exceeded...
...believe that the next five years will be one of the most attractive real estate investment periods in the past 50 years," says Starwood Property Trust Inc. (STWD), an affiliate of closely-held Starwood Capital Group, in its July 29 IPO filing. The company, which is headed by real estate mogul Barry Sternlicht and went public last week, believes real estate became "significantly overpriced" in the go-go years of the past decade, and that "a significant price correction" is under...
Investors may be jittery, having watched a number of mortgage REITs, such as New Century Financial Corp. and American Home Mortgage Investment Corp., file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection over the past couple of years, and others, such as Arbor Realty Trust and Gramercy Capital, struggling to stay afloat. Even Starwood's newest offering could stir concerns if investors check out the sour performance of one of Sternlicht's previous specialty finance companies, iStar Financial...
Still, at least seven more IPOs are in the pipeline, including offerings from Colony Capital, Apollo, Alliance Bernstein, Bayview Asset Management (which is partly owned by Blackstone Group), Ellington Management Group, Western Asset Management and AG Financial Investment Trust...
...appointment to a five-year term reflects the Supreme Leader's trust in the Larijanis amid unprecedented public anger over the disputed June 12 presidential election, and the alleged torture and rape of protesters arrested in a brutal crackdown...