CBRE Investment Management Elevates Xi Huang to Key Leadership Role for Separate Accounts

CBRE Investment Management today announced a strategic evolution of its separate account business with the appointment of Xi Huang as Head of Separate Accounts—Americas Direct Real Estate. This move is designed to drive operational excellence and meet growing demand from clients for customized investment solutions.

Huang, currently Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at CBRE Investment Management, will take on the newly created role effectively immediately and will be charged with setting the strategy for CBRE IM’s $8.6 billion Americas Direct separate accounts business and providing a consistent, holistic approach with best-in-class service to clients.

In this role, Huang will continue to be supported by an experienced Americas separate account team, in addition to the deep resources offered by the research, acquisitions, asset management, development, financial operations and capital markets teams, among others.

“We are delighted that Xi Huang has been promoted to the newly created role of Head of Separate Accounts for the CBRE Investment Management Americas Direct team,” said Julie Ingersoll, Chief Investment Officer of Americas Direct Real Estate Strategies at CBRE Investment Management. “Elevating Xi to this key leadership role with expanded capacity allows us to meet increasing demand from our clients and deliver even more custom solutions and touchpoints to meet their changing investment needs. This appointment underscores CBRE IM's continued commitment to cultivating long-term, strategic relationships within our separate accounts business, and ultimately, delivering superior investment results for our clients.”

Huang has been with the firm for four years and has more than 20 years of industry experience, including managing relationships with some of the world’s largest institutional investors and holding various leadership roles across portfolio management and equity capital markets at premier real estate private equity platforms.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Chicago and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University.

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CBRE Investment Management is a leading global real assets investment management firm with $155.5 billion in assets under management* as of December 31, 2025, operating in 20 countries around the world. Through its investor-operator culture, the firm seeks to deliver sustainable investment solutions across real assets categories, geographies, risk profiles and execution formats so that its clients, people and communities thrive.

CBRE Investment Management is an independently operated affiliate of CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBRE), the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (based on 2025 revenue). The company has more than 155,000 employees (including Turner & Townsend employees) serving clients in more than 100 countries. CBRE Investment Management harnesses CBRE’s data and market insights, investment sourcing and other resources for the benefit of its clients. For more information, please visit www.cbreim.com.

*Assets under management (AUM) refers to the fair market value of real assets-related investments with respect to which CBRE Investment Management provides, on a global basis, oversight, investment management services and other advice and which generally consist of investments in real assets; equity in funds and joint ventures; securities portfolios; operating companies and real assets-related loans. This AUM is intended principally to reflect the extent of CBRE Investment Management’s presence in the global real assets market, and its calculation of AUM may differ from the calculations of other asset managers and from its calculation of regulatory assets under management for purposes of certain regulatory filings.