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Real estate for Defined Contribution (DC) plans

Offering an array of real estate investment strategies for Defined Contribution plans—including public and private real estate equity, public and private real estate debt, and infrastructure.

Explore the potential benefits of adding real estate to your DC plan.

While public real estate and infrastructure have long been available to DC plans, we believe private real estate equity and debt should also be available to all working individuals—not only large defined benefit plans, wealthy families, and high-net worth individuals. That’s why we were the first to offer DC investors the option to invest 100% in core private real estate equity over 40 years ago and are now offering DC investors the opportunity to invest in a private real estate debt strategy within their multi-asset options. Daily valuation and addressing the liquidity needs of DC participants is in our DNA.

Building real estate equity and debt strategies and infrastructure investments into your DC plan can potentially help:

Increase diversification

Generate income

Reduce portfolio volatility

Improve participant outcomes

Adding private and public real estate to DC plans

Designed specifically for DC plans

Daily traded environment

Strike daily NAV Valuation transparency through documented process that is consistently applied and auditable with oversight by Third Party Valuation Consultant Available on automated trading platforms

As an investment sleeve

Positioned for inclusion

Target date funds Real asset funds Income producing funds Inflation protection funds
Explore our featured real estate strategies.

Our 360° view of global real estate gives us the insight needed to help you identify strategies that can offer compelling performance.

U.S. Core Private Equity Real Estate

Deploying a research-based allocation framework with in-depth coverage of more than 40 U.S. metropolitan real estate markets to invest in a diversified pool of high-quality, well-leased U.S. commercial real estate properties, including a long-standing allocation to alternative growing pool of niche property sectors.

U.S. Real Estate Securities

Applying bottom-up stock selection, emphasizing owning quality companies at a reasonable price, and diversifying sources of alpha generation.

Global Real Estate Securities

Offers exposure to the global real estate market, applying bottom-up stock selection, emphasizing owning quality companies at a reasonable price, and diversifying sources of alpha generation.

A broad range of real estate investment solutions.

Our experienced investment teams provide comprehensive, specialized, and sustainable capabilities across all four quadrants of commercial real estate—public equity, private equity, public debt, and private debt—as well as infrastructure investing. Whatever real estate strategy or combination of strategies you believe is right for your objectives, we can help.

Private equity Core, Value-add, and Opportunistic Strategies
Private debt Commercial Mortgages and High Yield Debt
Public equity Listed REIT Securities
Public debt Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities
Listed infrastructure Listed Infrastructure Securities
Financing solutions Private Debt Origination
Additional capabilities
Real estate operating company (REOC) investments Responsible property investing
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