New hire Catharina Becker will head up the institutional property solutions department at Union Investment Institutional Property GmbH in Hamburg, Germany.
Becker and her team will be responsible for developing tailored institutional real estate solutions and new institutional real estate mandates at Union Investment, while coordinating closely with product management and sales. Her remit will also include finding solutions to key institutional challenges around real estate.
Having worked in real estate portfolio management, fund management and asset management at various companies within the sector, Becker has extensive expertise around property and investment vehicles, combined with a strong understanding of the associated regulatory issues and the needs of institutional customers.
She is joining Union Investment from the Hamburg Trust Group, where she held a range of roles over the past seven years, including most recently managing director of Hamburg Trust R