October 23, 1998, Bud Lake looked through the files on the real estate markets in Asia. The lake is responsible for real estate investment in an aggressive and eclectic investment funds with total assets of $ 1.5 billion - up from $ 400 million at the beginning in 1994. As the fund grew, the lake was scrambling to expand its allotted 25% in real estate. Within a few months he was finding it difficult to buy American properties. Recently, Lake invested $ 30 million in the European "vulture fund", its first foray outside the U.S. real estate market. Now the lake takes a hard look at Asia, as well as the lure of the collapse of real estate and cost $ 600 to $ 800 billion in troubled real estate loans in the region, leading to an unprecedented interest in U.S. real estate company. At the time, he would like to hear presentation Jack Wong and Jason Biller, young entrepreneurs who sought $ 25 million investment to get a new fund, Asia Property Ltd, off the ground. In addition, the lake explored other options such as buying stocks of publicly traded Asian real estate companies. "Hide
by William J. Poorvu, Daniel Rudd Source: Harvard Business School 16 pages. Publication Date: January 5, 1999. Prod. #: 899145-PDF-ENG
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