Nuveen appoints new managing director for real estate, Hong Kong

Nuveen has appointed Louise Kavanagh as managing director for real estate, based in its Hong Kong office.

She will lead a team focusing upon opportunities in the largest, most transparent cities across Asia-Pacific, selected for their long term geographic drivers and growth trends.

She will focus on providing TH Real Estate, a Nuveen affiliate, regional real estate expertise.

With more than 20 years of experience, Kavanagh joins from Invesco where she was fund manager of the Invesco Real Estate Asia Fund since its inception. Whilst there she was responsible for the portfolio construction and overall performance of the fund, including day-to-day operations, acquisition analysis, asset management, client and reporting related matters.

Prior to joining Invesco Real Estate she was a director at RREEF Real Estate Asia Pacific. In her role as head of acquisitions & asset management she was responsible for origination, due diligence and monitoring investments across the identified regional markets. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank RREEF in 2007, Kavanagh held a number of roles at Investa Property Group, Colonial First State Property and Royal Sun Alliance in Australia and Hong Kong.

Kavanagh sits on the Urban Land Institute’s Hong Kong Executive Committee and Women’s Leadership Initiative. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Land Economy from the University of Western Australia and a Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment Securities Institute of Australia.