Wednesday, March 28, 2012

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The Challenges of Private Equity Investing in the Middle East ...

Ed Bace, CFA

At the CFA Institute Middle East Investment Conference?yesterday,?Richard Dallas, managing director of Gulf Capital, described the challenging conditions for private equity (PE) investing in the Middle East and North Africa.?Dallas argued that the unprecedented political upheaval and turmoil occurring in parts of the region?have resulted in slowing economies, a near-evaporation of foreign direct investment, stagnant or collapsing stock markets, a liquidity drought, and a shortage of debt financing. All of these factors are set against the backdrop of a rising population and high unemployment rates.

As an illustration of the higher risk environment for investors, credit default swap (CDS)?spreads have widened for regional sovereigns, particularly for Egypt, Bahrain, Tunisia, Morocco, and Lebanon, Dallas pointed out. While these countries can expect a long period of stabilization following political unrest, he believes that,?in general,?the Gulf States are following progressive reforms and offer much more attractive long-term fundamentals.

Regional gross domestic product (GDP) growth is expected to slow in the medium term to the 4-5% range, down from 6-8% in the previous decade. This development, along with major political uncertainty, has resulted in a massive decline in private equity transactions from 2007 to 2010 (down 98% in transaction value terms; 75% by transaction volume).?In the past five years, fundraising activities have virtually ground to a halt: down 78% from $6.5 billion raised in 2008 to $1.4 billion in 2010.

Since 2004, $15 billion has been invested, versus only $5 billion in exits and distributions, Dallas reported. He noted that a large number of funds are nearing the end of their commitment period, as many have been unable to deploy their funds and build a track record. With around 120 active and announced funds in the region, he thinks the next phase will be one of consolidation, mirroring what happened in Asia in the 1990s (today leading PE players in that region account for the majority of assets under management).

Richard Dallas speaking at the CFA Institute Middle East Investment ConferenceIn addition to political risk, which is the main Damoclean sword hanging over limited partners (LPs), Dallas contended that investors are particularly concerned about the limited number of established LPs (and hence the lack of track records), and a scale of investment opportunities that is too small. Compared to PE investments in the United Kingdom, which accounted for 1.13% of 2010 GDP, PE investments in the Middle East and North Africa are well below the global average, at just 0.04% of GDP.

Not surprisingly, major destinations for PE investment in the region roughly correlate to comparative economic growth rates and are as follows: the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. Favored sectors include real estate, financial services, IT, construction, healthcare, and manufacturing???but Dallas said that?investors also see promise in the?consumer goods and education sectors. He believes that unlike in other environments around the world, minority deals account for a dominant share of investments.

Dallas argued that growth capital and family businesses are the key for PE in the region, with the latter accounting for more than 90% of commercial activity and non-oil GDP. The region counts more than 5,000 family firms, encompassing more than $500 billion in assets, which employ 70% of the workforce.

Dallas emphasized that structural considerations are critical to PE investing in the region, especially jurisdiction and the enforceability of contracts, along with governance (proper company management, strategic direction, and actual influence). Exit processes are fairly standard in theory, but can be more complex in practice, he said, along with other mechanisms (drag, tag, and demand rights on an initial public offering).

It?s not all gloom and doom, however. Dallas? advice to investors is to keep their heads low, continue growing portfolio companies, and build a track record of value creation.

He also thinks that it is important to scout carefully for investment targets in what is an undervalued market. As opportunities arise, he counseled, take exits and return money to limited partners as soon as possible (something his firm, Gulf Capital, has done recently with a few investments).

In sharp contrast to other speakers at the conference (Marc Faber?for example), Dallas believes that with a good track record the next decade looks promising for the region.

Source: http://meic.cfainstitute.org/2012/03/27/the-challenges-of-private-equity-investing-in-the-middle-east/

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Lowry may land net-zero community | Inside Real Estate News

Sub-area map of Buckley Annex at Lowry.

Lowry is about to grow by 80 acres and 800 residential units.

The Lowry Redevelopment Authority board has approved an Economic Development Conveyance for the Buckley Annex property, bordered by Monaco Parkway, First Avenue, Quebec and Bayaud streets. The Air Force is expected to transfer the deed in the next few weeks.

The 70-acre Buckley Annex property is the last remaining parcel of land to be transferred by the Department of Defense to the LRA.

It is one of the largest infill sites in Denver. Established in the 1970s, the Buckley Annex contained the Denver Center of the Defense Finance and Accounting Services and the Air Reserve Personnel Center with some 3,000 employees. It was announced for closure in 2005 and the property was completely vacated on Sept. 15, 2011.

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As earlier reported by InsideRealEstateNews, the LRA is working with Denver?s Office of Economic Development on a ?net-zero neighborhood? concept. Under that concept, the neighborhood would generate as much energy as it utilizes on an annual basis. Net zero is achieved through a combination of energy-efficient building standards along with renewable energy technologies such as solar or geothermal power. Energy credits from off-site systems may also be utilized.

?This kind of vibrant mixed-use neighborhood is what makes Denver one of the most innovative and sustainable cities in America,? said Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock.

Rendering of Townhome Boulevard in new 80-acre Buckley Annex coming to Lowry.

?District 5 is truly on the move,? said Denver City Councilwoman Mary Beth Susman. ?Major developments like this and Ninth and Colorado will soon create new jobs, amenities and a mix of housing choices for area residents.?

The LRA will accept the property at no initial cost, but net profits, after all development costs and financing are paid off, will be shared with the Air Force. The negotiated agreement recognizes the high initial costs, such as demolition and obsolete utilities, associated with the redevelopment of a military installation. The LRA will pay for approximately $45 million in development costs through land sales, traditional bank loans, tax increment financing and federal grants.

The Lowry Redevelopment Authority conducted a public redevelopment planning process in 2007-8 involving numerous community task forces and stakeholder groups. The LRA will be the master developer of the site, as it has for the rest of Lowry, and will sell land to residential and commercial developers for vertical construction.

The conceptual redevelopment plan calls for:

  • A vibrant, urban, mixed-use area that integrates with surrounding neighborhoods.
  • Approximately 800 residential units, including apartments, townhomes and both attached and detached homes, at a wide range of price points.
  • Up to 200,000 square feet of commercial space, approximately half office and half neighborhood retail.
  • A 4.5-acre community park, several small pocket parks and preservation of several hundred existing trees.

?This will be an exciting new neighborhood for Lowry and Denver,? said Monty Force, incoming executive director for the Lowry Redevelopment Authority. ?Where else can you live in a new green home, perhaps a ?right-sized? one, with new amenities at Lowry and easy access to Crestmoor Park and Cherry Creek??

In the coming months, the LRA will create a General Development Plan and zoning package based on the Buckley Annex Redevelopment Plan. Building demolition and infrastructure improvements are currently scheduled to begin in the third quarter of this year. At full buildout, the development is projected to create approximately $1 million annually in new property taxes and nearly $500,000 annually in sales taxes. The project is expected to create 350 construction jobs at the peak of construction and 400 retail and office jobs at full buildout.

To learn what is currently available for sale at Lowry, please visit this COhomefinder.com link.?

Contact John Rebchook at JRCHOOK@gmail.com

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Source: http://insiderealestatenews.com/2012/03/lowry-approves-expansion/

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Monday, March 26, 2012

Ask Engadget: using an iPad as a remote viewfinder?

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We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is from is from William who is looking for an solution to the problem of badly designed public spaces. If you're looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.

"Hi guys. I'm getting married in a church with a weird split-hall design. The result is that half of the attendees won't be able to see the ceremony at all! I'm wondering if I could hook up my Canon Rebel T3i up to my 3rd-generation iPad and use it as a quick-and-dirty closed-circuit display? There's no WiFi in the location, so it has to be a wired solution too. Please help me!"

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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Susan G. Komen executives: More resignations

Susan G. Komen executives depart in turmoil over a funding flap of Planned Parenthood. At least five Susan G. Komen executives have left.

At least five high-ranking executives with the Susan G.?Komen?for the Cure breast cancer charity have resigned in the aftermath of the organization's decision to eliminate its funding for Planned Parenthood.

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The departures include three officials from?Komen's?Dallas headquarters, as well as CEOs of affiliate groups in Oregon and New York City. The chairman of the foundation also stepped down from his post, though he will remain on the board. Although some cited personal reasons, the resignations suggest that?Komen?is still in turmoil, even after reversing course and restoring the money to Planned Parenthood.

Komen?spokeswoman Leslie Aun said she could not speak to individuals' reasons for leaving but acknowledged the effects of the controversy among supporters.

"Obviously, we know some folks are upset. We've certainly seen that," Aun said. "We know people have been upset by recent events, but most really do recognize the importance of our work."

The resignations began about a month ago. Chris McDonald, executive director and chief executive of the organization's Oregon and southwest Washington affiliate, announced that she'll leave at the end of April. She said her decision wasn't "predicated by any one event," but that actions by national headquarters affected her thinking.

"Despite our deep frustration about the distraction that our organization headquarters' actions caused, I was proud that our affiliate took a strong stand against the politicization of the fight to improve women's health," McDonald said in a Feb. 25 statement posted on the organization's website.

One board member for McDonald's affiliate, Portland attorney Jennifer Williamson, rejoined the board after stepping down last month to put pressure on the national organization. She couldn't walk away from the localKomen?work to expand access to women's health care, she said.

"As a local affiliate we could push back on them but we couldn't do anything about it," said Williamson, who is also on the Planned Parenthood board and is a Democratic candidate for the state Legislature. "I did what I had the ability to do, which was resign from the board. But to support the mission ... I rejoined the board."

News emerged in late January that?Komen?had decided to stop giving money to Planned Parenthood for breast-screening services because Planned Parenthood was the focus of a congressional investigation launched at the urging of anti-abortion activists. After a three-day firestorm of criticism,?Komen?decided to restore the money.

Some?Komen?affiliates, including McDonald's, were among those that publicly opposed the policy change that cut off grants for Planned Parenthood.

In the days after the reversal,?Komen?policy chief Karen Handel resigned. She had opposed abortion as a Republican candidate for Georgia governor and had become a target of those angry about the decision to halt funding to Planned Parenthood.

In Dallas, the three resignations were Katrina McGhee, executive vice president and chief marketing officer; Nancy Macgregor, vice president of global networks; and Joanna Newcomb, director of affiliate strategy and planning.

McGhee announced in February that she would be leaving May 4 "for personal reasons" and because it was "time to make a change."

McGregor will leave in June, and Newcomb departed at the end of February. The Associated Press left messages Thursday for McGhee and Macgregor. Newcomb declined to comment.

Dr. LaSalle D. Leffall Jr. also will step down from his post as chairman of the foundation's board of directors as of March 31, but he will remain on the board, Aun said. His decision, which was finalized at a Thursday board meeting, comes as he is "stepping back a bit" from the board due to his responsibilities is his role as provost at Howard University, she said. Leffall did not immediately return messages from the AP.

Dr. Dara Richardson-Heron, CEO of?Komen's?New York City affiliate, said Tuesday that she will leave April 27. Her affiliate was also critical of the Planned Parenthood decision, but she did not cite that in a letter posted on the website, saying only that she wanted to pursue "new career opportunities" and that leaving "was not an easy decision."

Vern Calhoun, a spokesman for the New York affiliate, said Richardson-Heron was not speaking to reporters.

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BofA's renter plan may boost its bottom line

By John W. Schoen, Senior Producer

What do you do if you own more foreclosed homes than you know what to do with ?and there are more on the way?

In Bank of America's case, you might want to become a landlord.

The San Francisco-based lender said Thursday it's going to try out the idea of offering homeowners the chance to stay on as renters?as an alternative to seizing their properties in foreclosure. The plan would let those families stay on for as long three years.

''Our priority is designing a solution that helps our customer,'' said Ron Sturzenegger, Legacy Asset Servicing executive at?Bank of America in a statement. ''If this evolves from a pilot into a more broadly based program, we also see potential benefits from helping to stabilize housing prices in the surrounding community and curtail neighborhood blight by keeping a portion of distressed properties off the market.''

Converting families into rent-paying tenants after Bank of America seizes their homes would also help boost Bank of America's bottom line, in several ways.

Many of the homes Bank of America takes back sit empty and require upkeep until a buyer can be found, often at a fire sale price. Renting those homes back to their former owners would?also provide Bank of America with a new source of revenue and give the bank more time to find investors to buy the property, helping to avoid slashing the sale price as it works to clear a glut of unsold properties.

Bank of America stock, which was near $5 late last year, was up 2 percent Friday to $9.82.

The pilot program initially will be offered in New York, Nevada and Arizona to about 1,000 homeowners about to lose their properties after they agree to hand over the title to Bank of America. Rents, which bank officials say would be less than the former homeowners' monthly mortgage payment, would be set at market rates, based on independent estimates, according to a bank spokeswoman.

Homeowners won't be able to apply for the foreclosure-to-rent program; Bank of America said it will chose the initial round of potential participants and has already begun contacting some of them to make the offer.

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Bank of America will now offer customers facing foreclosure the option to rent their home, for less money than the mortgage. CNBC's Diana Olick talks about the program, which will be tested in New York, Nevada and Arizona.

The list of potential renters will likely be relatively short. Even if the pilot program is expanded, only about 10 percent of homeowners whose mortgages are owned directly by Bank of America would be eligible. Not included are the roughly 60 percent of Bank of America's loan portfolio held by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, the two big government-controlled mortgage companies. Families with mortgages that were sold off to investors or who have home equity loans would also not be included.

Because borrowers voluntarily agree to sign over their title, the program could also help Bank of America avoid any potential legal hurdles in cases where shoddy paperwork makes it difficult for the lender to prove it owns a mortgage and has a right to foreclose. ?In some states, increased scrutiny of those documents have slowed the pace of foreclosures. Nationwide, lenders completed some 860,000 foreclosures last year, down from 1.1 million in 2010, according to CoreLogic.

Even with the slowdown, mortgage lenders like Bank of America have accumulated a huge backlog of unsold houses. Five years into the worst housing collapse since the Great Depression, that inventory of seized properties continues to weigh on the housing market and on the price of every house Bank of America tries to sell.

Last month, one in five homes sold in the U.S. were foreclosures, according to the National Association of Realtors. Another 15 percent were "short sales" - in which lenders like Bank of America agree to let a homeowner facing foreclosure sell the house for less than they owe.

The foreclosure pipeline, meanwhile, continues to fill, pushing more distressed properties on the market. Last month, the total supply of unsold homes for sale rose 4.3 percent to 2.4 million, or about a 6.4-month supply, according to the NAR. ?Housing economists figure supply and demand are roughly in balance with that much inventory.

But there are another 1.6 million homes in the foreclosure pipeline that have yet hit the market, according to CoreLogic, which tracks this so-called "shadow inventory."

"Almost half of the shadow inventory is not yet in the foreclosure process," said Mark Fleming, chief economist for CoreLogic. in a statement "Shadow inventory also remains concentrated in states impacted by sharp price declines and states with long foreclosure timelines."

Some 800,000 homes are owned by families that are more than three months behind in their payments, another ?410,000 are in some stage of foreclosure and 400,000 have already been seized by banks but not yet listed for sale. Fannie Mae plans to auction off 2,500 foreclosed homes next month and expand those sales later this year.

The impact of those yet-to-be listed houses will be felt most severely in just a handful of states where foreclosure are most concentrated:? Florida, California and Illinois account for more than a third of the shadow inventory, according to CoreLogic data. The top six states, which also include New York, Texas and New Jersey, account for half of the shadow inventory.

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Source: http://economywatch.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/23/10829814-bank-of-america-renter-program-could-help-its-bottom-line

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