Peter Bretveld joins Kempen Real Estate team

For over six years, Bretveld worked for Blue Sky Group in the position of senior portfolio manager, where he was responsible for global non-listed real estate. Previous to this position, Bretveld was an assistant fund manager at CBRE Global Investors, and he gained experience as an investment analyst working for ING Real Estate Investment Management.

Matthijs Storm, head of the Kempen Real Estate team, commented on Peter Bretveld’s appointment saying: ‘Peter has built up an excellent reputation in real estate markets, in which he has been active since 2001. Besides a wealth of experience, he brings a vast network of contacts in global real estate markets to the team. Peter will be a great asset to our team.’

News & Knowledge

2019, 19 February

Private Markets Investor Letter

Following a successful fund launch in May 2018, we received over 66 million euros of capital in 2018. We usedthis to build up a well-spread portfolio in the four private-markets asset classes. We have committed to eight partnerships and we have also made two direct co-investments. In this report we will look further into the relevant activities.

2019, 18 February

Asset Allocation update February

A horrible December was followed by one of the best months of January in history. As far as we can tell this was the result of two things: better-than-expected earnings reports (although not-as-bad-as-we-feared may be a better way to put it) and a massive policy U-turn by the Federal Reserve.

2019, 15 February

Kempen European Private Equity Fund raised € 76 million in the first month

Amsterdam, 15 February 2019. The new private equity fund of Kempen Capital Management (Kempen), the Kempen European Private Equity Fund, has raised over € 76 million in the first closing. This investment fund, which focuses on small and lower mid-market private equity buy-outs in Europe, was launched in January of 2019.