DWS Group announced it is making a strategic investment in its Americas Alternatives distribution platform to make its real estate products more widely available to the retail market.
The investment is part of a longer-term initiative to provide retail investors with access to DWS’s broad Alternatives platform. DWS expects new products to be announced over time. The initiative is driven by increased client demand in the retail market for Alternatives products that provide diversification, preservation of capital and risk adjusted performance.
The growth initiative will initially focus on DWS’s Americas retail products of institutionally managed real estate strategies sponsored by DWS’s RREEF America. The new Americas-based sales team will work alongside DWS’s more than 500-person global Alternatives investment team with expertise investing in real estate, infrastructure, private equity and sustainable investments. The new sales team will be r