Optimum Asset Management, a boutique real estate investment manager with over €1.5 bn in AUM, has appointed Ljiljana Macdonald as managing director.
Macdonald joins Optimum with over 16 years’ fund management, investment strategy and capital raising experience developed in a range of senior roles at boutique and large real estate investment managers. Having worked with firms such as Alpha Real Capital, Aviva Investors, Cordea Savills, and UBS Global Asset Management, she joins Optimum with deep investor and advisory experience in European markets.
At Optimum, she will be responsible for supporting the growth of the firm’s operations in key markets through capital raising, client relationship management and collaboration with Optimum’s local asset management teams. The firm is currently fund raising for its Optimum German Real Estate Fund IV (GREF IV) focused on delivering strong performance from investments in well-located residential, office and mixed-use real estate assets near major infrastructure and employment centres in high-growth German cities.
She is the latest senior appointment at Optimum, which recently announced ex-CBRE Director Nick Hill as head of Distribution to support the firm’s fund-raising activity in the UK and Europe.
