CBRE Investment Management Names Shane Taylor Head of Americas Research

Shane Taylor has been appointed as Head of Americas Research for CBRE Investment Management. Taylor, who also serves as Head of APAC Research for the firm, will hold a dual leadership role for both regions.

Taylor joined CBRE Investment Management in 2006. Prior to joining the firm, he spent three years as a researcher with the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute in Brisbane, Australia, before joining RP Data-Marketshare, a real estate consultancy based in Sydney.

Over the past decade, Taylor has built and managed CBRE Investment Management’s APAC Research Team and, under his direction, the team’s in-depth and timely research insight has driven significant business results for the firm. The APAC Research team has consistently provided responsive transaction support and value to the company’s leadership and clients for the APAC region. Taylor spent 12 years based in Hong Kong, during which time he became a respected thought leader and a trusted advisor to global capital sources targeting the region for investment. He will now be based in New York.

“Shane’s superb track record of building and managing high-performance research teams will be key as we continue to build our reach across the U.S. real assets investment landscape,” said Sabina Reeves, Chief Economist and Head of Insights & Intelligence for CBRE Investment Management. “His depth of experience, keen understanding of market dynamics and sharp analytic skills will help to promote a stronger collaborative culture with exceptional data-driven results across our Direct, Indirect and Listed Investment businesses.”

Taylor holds a B.A. (Hons) from Queensland University, an M.App.Sc in Economic Geography from the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, as well as a Ph.D in Urban Planning from Columbia University. Taylor has also consulted for the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, and the Earth Institute. He was also the recipient of an ICSC award for outstanding service to the research community.

About CBRE Investment Management
CBRE Investment Management is a leading global real assets investment management firm with $141.9 billion in assets under management* as of December 31, 2021, operating in more than 30 offices and 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 2021 revenue). CBRE has more than 105,000 employees (excluding 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.