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At Sousou Partners, we believe in having a point of view. For over twenty years, it is what our clients have come to expect and to value. Having a point of view about their talent needs, compensation structures, and recruitment processes – but also the type of businesses they are seeking to build and the cultures they are nurturing.
Our annual compensation review has become the centerpiece of our insight work. Each year we benchmark compensation trends across a number of job roles, geographies, and sectors and make this work – suitably anonymized and confidential – available to clients and the media. We also look beyond the immediate world of recruitment. We regularly scan the operating landscape to identify emerging topics and trends that have the potential to affect our clients or the overall real asset sector. And then we research, reflect and review to bring a deeper understanding to our work.
Sometimes we simply write about what has moved us and what we believe is important.
Arron Taggart Interview
Arron Taggart is currently Head of UK Origination at Cheyne Capital in London. Arron has over 20 years’ experience in real estate markets. He joined Cheyne in August 2012 to originate real estate loans in the UK and Northern Europe.
John Barakat Interview
John Barakat has spent 35 years in the real estate industry in the US and Europe. After 17 years in real estate at Goldman Sachs, John founded the Real Estate Debt business at M&G Investments and ...
The Round-Up, July 2022
The hospitality sector is a passion for many people, and it offers the opportunity to develop new skills, build relationships and provide rewarding employment. Hospitality plays an important role in promoting economic development and prosperity in communities all over the world and the focus on eco-tourism drives a complex balance between ensuring long-term sustainability and maximising economic returns.
Interview with Carlos Hernandez
Carlos Hernandez is a seasoned Chief Executive Officer and international real estate professional, and the creator of some of the most unique and awarded concepts in luxury hotels, golf courses, resorts, and master-planned communities in Latin America ...
Global Hospitality Survey 2022
We are delighted to share with you the results including a snapshot of the answers from the respondents which offer a global outlook representing different platform types and size of company. Despite the challenges ahead, 46% feel optimistic about the remainder of 2022, highlighted through a continued performance improvement by entering new markets and developing fresh concepts in addition to the drive for innovation triggered by Covid.
The Round-Up, May 2022
As more and more countries around the world lift Covid restrictions and return to the ‘new normal’, the working from home debate is intensifying. The topic has been highlighted in recent weeks, in both the public and private sectors, with the issue becoming increasingly divisive. Whilst employees have generally enjoyed the flexibility that has been afforded to them over the last two years ...
Interview with Dr Glenn Crocker
Dr Glenn Crocker is an Executive Director at We Are Pioneer Group, where he runs the investment arm of the business, and a Senior Consultant and former Head of UK, UK at JLL Life Sciences. During his career, he has co-founded, invested in, and exited many successful life science companies.
Infrastructure Compensation
As the infrastructure sector’s heavyweight asset managers continued to focus on product diversification, 2021 saw the gap in compensation between core infra and private equity infra funds narrow significantly, Tharshini Ashokan reports
Private Real Estate Annual Compensation Survey
Covid impact is over for private real estate compensation. It is a case of going from headwind to tailwind when it comes to the forces impacting compensation in private real estate these days. Between 2019, when the first strains of covid-19 were detected in China, and today, as working amid a pan-demic normalizes around the world, pay in the industry has boomeranged.
The Round-Up, March 2022
Barely three months into 2022 and the big gulp of fresh air that is (what feels like) the end of a pandemic has been cut mid-breath and taken over by the Ukraine crisis that is having us grapple ever more with our deepest most primal fears and needs for safety, security and sanity. As Ukrainians worldwide experience unspeakable injustice and suffering, what this war will mean to us as individuals, businesses, and humanity at large will be determined by our actions and reactions.
Interview with Sabina Reeves
Sabina Reeves is Chief Economist & Head of Insights & Intelligence for CBRE Investment Management. She is responsible for the firm’s 30-member real assets research team and has a specific role in selecting the economic scenarios and macro risk assessments ...
Real estate lending businesses dig deep to attract key personnel
Recruiting property debt specialists is becoming more expensive as market entrants hunt for talent, writes Daniel Cunningham - As more organisations have set up stall in Europe’s real estate lending market, competition to hire the industry’s debt specialists has intensified, leading to big-ger salaries and bonuses, the results of a sector-wide compensation survey show.