PGIM Real Estate has appointed Joanna Mulford as senior portfolio manager for the firm’s flagship core equity fund in the United States. PGIM Real Estate is the $206.8 billion real estate investment and financing business of PGIM.

Mulford has worked as a portfolio manager on PGIM Real Estate’s U.S. core equity fund for 14 years and has more than 30 years of experience at the company. During her tenure, she has held a range of roles across portfolio management, asset management and transactions. Mulford was a pioneer of the firm’s move into alternative sectors of the real estate market such as life sciences, data centers, self-storage, and manufactured housing, which are areas that she has been investing in since the 1990s.

As a portfolio manager on the firm’s U.S. core equity fund, Mulford has been involved in all aspects of managing the fund, including portfolio strategy, investment decision-making, and management of the investment team. During the past 10 y