L&G Blogs: Martha Peyton

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Martha Peyton is a Research Consultant to L&G – Asset Management, America’s Real Estate Equity team. In this role, she is responsible for US economic and property market research, which is a foundation for the team’s investment strategy.

Between 2018 and mid-2023, Martha was Managing Director of Applied Research for Aegon Real Assets US, primarily responsible for the development and application of research to real asset strategies. Between 1993 and 2016, Martha was Managing Director, Head of Real Estate and Global Real Assets Research for TIAA-Nuveen. While at TIAA, she built and oversaw the research function for the commercial mortgage loan and real estate businesses. This included managing research staff, setting the research agenda, conducting ongoing monitoring and analysis of the investment environment and asset class performance and authoring white papers and research publications.

Martha earned her BA, MA and PhD in Economics from Fordham University. She is a Counselor of Real Estate (CRE) and is a Fellow and past president of the Real Estate Research Institute.

The case for US multifamily commercial real estate

Investors choosing to diversify their portfolios with US property have a wide array of property types on offer. I this blog, we look at one subsector we believe could be potentially attractive in today’s investment environment: US multifamily.

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