Legal & General Investment Management - Real Assets (LGIM Real Assets) has hired Alex Mountford as senior asset manager, to focus on some of its key retail assets within Legal & General’s £3.3 bn (€3.8b n) managed fund.
LGIM committed almost £400 mln (€457 mln) last year alone to its retail portfolio and has now built a team of more than 30 retail specialists.
'Our LGIM Real Assets platform and the managed fund continue to grow at pace,' commented Mark Russell, senior fund manager at LGIM Real Assets. 'We are delighted to bring someone of Alex’s calibre onto our team to oversee some key value-add retail projects as well as supporting further growth activities in the sector. Alex’s wide-ranging expertise and experience in working and improving retail assets will be invaluable to our ambitions.'
Mountford has 13 years’ experience in the retail sector, joining from Linkcity (Bouygues) where he held the position of senior leasing manager.
Prior to that, he was an associate director in the retail teams at CBRE and DTZ. During his career, Mountford has worked on some major schemes including Westfield Stratford and Birmingham Grand Central and national portfolio mandates for Vodafone, Barclays and Natwest. He qualified as a chartered surveyor in 2007.
