Manulife Investment Management is transforming its real estate platform, which originally was designed to invest on behalf of Manulife’s general account, to serve outside institutions through separate accounts and other real estate investment products. “As a team and as a business, our collective purpose is to establish ourselves as an entrepreneurial real estate investment manager with institutional discipline centered around portfolio construction, risk management and governance, including diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI),” says Marc Feliciano, global head of real estate for private markets, Manulife Investment Management, who has led this effort during the past year. In an interview published in the July/August issue of Institutional Real Estate Americas, Feliciano describes how the firm has developed its global real estate leadership team and reinforced its foundation for the strategies that will drive its next growth phase in terms of research, geography an
