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Public Real Estate Solutions

We work with institutional investors to enhance their real estate portfolios by designing globally diversified real estate solutions through publicly traded real estate investments. Our clients include pension plans, insurance companies, endowment funds and fund managers located around the world.

We have experience in managing portfolios through separately managed accounts or sub-advisory arrangements for a variety of fund structures (SICAVs, partnership, mutual funds, 40-Act funds, UCIT funds).

$1.7B


AUM

   20+


Years Avg Portfolio Management Team Experience

   10+


Track
Record

4


Offices Globally

Our Key Strategies

Our Key Strategies

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Core

  • Access to best-in-class real estate
  • Investments in well-managed companies with cycle-tested track records
  • Exposure to attractive developed global markets that exhibit high barrier-to-entry characteristics
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Focused

  • Concentrated portfolio of best-in-class real estate operating in supply-constrained markets around the world
  • Provides access to companies with high-quality management teams and conservative balance sheets
  • Exposure to assets that earn majority of cash flow from contractual rental revenue
Three gears working together

Liquid Alternative

  • Designed to provide access to best-in-class real estate while prioritizing reduced volatility, drawdowns and capital preservation
  • Capitalize on pricing inefficiencies across both long and short positions
  • Blends fundamental research with quantitative analysis powered by machine learning

Public Real Estate Team

Corrado Russo

CFA, MBA Managing Partner, Co-CEO Hazelview & CIO Public Real Estate

Corrado Russo joined Hazelview Investments in 2011 and currently serves as Managing Partner and Co-CEO. He also continues in his role as Chief Investment Officer where he oversees the leadership of the Public Real Estate platform.

As Co-CEO, Corrado is responsible for helping shape and drive the firm’s long-term strategy, working closely with teams across Canada, the United States, Europe, and Hong Kong to guide the performance and growth of Hazelview’s assets under management. Corrado is also a member of the Investment Committee. 

Corrado brings over 25 years of experience in investment management, spanning portfolio management, equity research, and direct real estate investing. Prior to joining Hazelview, he held senior roles including Executive Director and Portfolio Manager of global real estate securities at Forum Securities, Portfolio Manager at Citi Property Investors, and Assistant Portfolio Manager at the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board.

He holds an MBA from the Schulich School of Business, a Bachelor of Administrative Studies from York University, and is a CFA® charterholder.


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