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51.07M
1.64%
Jan 31, 1997
The Fund’s investment objective is to seek long term capital appreciation, measured in U.S. Dollars, by investing primarily in equity securities of companies in the real estate industry or closely related to the real estate industry Located in the U.S.. Companies in the real estate industry or closely related to the real estate industry may include companies principally engaged in the development and/or ownership of income-producing property; companies that operate, construct, finance or sell real estate; companies with substantial real estate related holdings and/or services or products related to the real estate industry, including, but not limited to, real estate management, brokers, building products and property technology; and collective investment vehicles with exposure to property, such as publicly quoted property unit trusts, all types of eligible closed-end Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS) and undertakings for collective investment.
Name | Title | Since | Until |
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Laurel Durkay | Senior Vice President | 2020 | Now |
Biography | Laurel Durkay, Chartered Financial Analyst Managing Director Laurel Durkay joined Morgan Stanley in 2020 and has 21 years of investment experience. She is the Head of Global Listed Real Assets within Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) and the lead portfolio manager for U.S. and Global listed real estate strategies. Prior to joining MSIM, Ms. Durkay was a Senior Vice President and Global Portfolio Manager for Listed Real Estate at Cohen & Steers Capital Management for 14 years. | ||
Theodore R. Bigman | Managing Director | 2002 | 2020 |
Biography | Ted joined Morgan Stanley in 1995 and has 26 years of investment experience. He is a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley Investment Management and is the Head of Global Real Estate Securities Investing. Ted is the portfolio manager for the U.S. and global real estate securities portfolios and oversees the global team, which has investment teams in New York, Amsterdam and Singapore. Ted is also the lead portfolio manager for the Global Infrastructure Securities strategy. The teams have over $20 billion of assets under management in these strategies. Prior to joining the Firm in 1995, he was a Director at CS First Boston, where he worked for eight years in the real estate investment banking group. He established and managed the REIT effort at CS First Boston, and had primary responsibility for $2.5 billion of REIT initial public offerings. Ted also worked at Bain & Company as an Associate Consultant for two years. Ted received a B.A. from Brandeis University in Economics and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and studied at the London School of Economics. He was the 2011 recipient of the Industry Achievement Award from the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, the leading REIT industry group, for his approach to securities research on listed real estate companies, which has been influential in making REITs a standard component of institutional real estate portfolios. | ||
Bill Grant | Managing director and portfolio manager | 2014 | 2020 |
Biography | Managing director and portfolio manager of Morgan Stanley since 2014 and securities analyst for MSIM’s U.S. real estate portfolio from 2002 to 2014. Mr. Grant has over 14 years of investment experience. He has a BA from Occidental College. | ||
Douglas A. Funke | Vice President, Portfolio Manager | 1996 | 2006 |
Biography | Douglas Funke is a Managing Director and Global Portfolio Manager with Forum Securities based in Greenwich. Prior to joining Forum Securities in 2012, Mr. Funke spent 6 years as a Managing Director at BeachStreet Capital where he advised hedge funds, institutional money managers, high net worth clients and public and private companies on real estate and real estate related matters. Prior to this position, Mr. Funke spent 12 years at Morgan Stanley, most recently, as a Managing Director and Co-Portfolio Manager of Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s US Real Estate Fund. Mr. Funke holds an A |
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