This month's edition of Real Estate Spotlight takes a detailed look at Europe-focused fundraising and the investment activity of institutional investors based in the region, examining the latest real estate fundraising statistics, strategies targeted by European investors and the amount they intend to commit to private real estate in the next year.

In this week's Private Equity Digest, DealMarket takes a look at an analysts view of why big buyouts lack luster, an emerging markets dealflow update, as well as the latest figures from Go4Venture and all the latest industry news.

This report for Quarter 1 2013 by Kevin Arenson, Chief Investment Officer at Stenham, includes a market and economic review for the first three months of the year, a review of the Stenham multi-strategy portfolios and an outlook for the next quarter.

In this issue of DealMarket's digest: a look at the buyout of China's Focus Media, location-based advertising, and all that latest industry news.

Preqin’s April edition of Hedge Fund Spotlight reveals that long/short hedge funds outperformed all other strategies in Q1 2013. Long/short equity is also the most commonly sought-after single strategy by institutional investors, with 43% of investors that are planning on making new allocations to hedge funds in the next 12 months favouring this strategy.