MetLife Investment Management, the institutional asset management business of MetLife, has appointed Sara Queen as managing director and head of real estate equity, effective March 15. Reporting to Robert Merck, senior managing director and global head of MetLife Investment Management’s real estate and agriculture business, Queen will succeed Mark Wilsmann, who is retiring at the end of March after more than 30 years with the company.
Queen will oversee MetLife Investment Management’s $32.7 billion real estate equity portfolio, which comprises core, core-plus, build-to-core, value-add and opportunistic strategies for the firm’s institutional clients and MetLife’s general account.
She joins from Mapletree Investments, a global real estate development, investment and capital management company headquartered in Singapore, where she was head of the company’s North America business. After joining Mapletree Investments in 2018, Queen tripled the firm’s U.S. real
