CBRE Global Investors

CBRE Global Investors was founded in 1972 as the investment management subsidiary of Coldwell, Banker & Company and began investing in real estate for U.S. tax-exempt investors that same year.

In 1998, CB Commercial, as the parent company was then known, acquired Richard Ellis International to create CB Richard Ellis, the leading global real estate services organization.

Over the next decade, CBRE Global Investors grew from a domestic pension fund adviser to a multi-strategy global investment organization. The firm branched out from Los Angeles and London to 20 offices across North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East and expanded its program offerings from core-only direct programs to a series of complementary strategies positioned along the risk/return spectrum.

In 2011, CBRE acquired substantially all of the ING Real Estate Investment Management (ING REIM) operations in Europe and Asia from Netherlands-based ING Group N.V., as well as Clarion Real Estate Securities (CRES), its U.S.-based global real estate listed securities business. The newly acquired operations have been merged with the company’s existing real estate investment management business, and the combined entity now operates as CBRE Global Investors, Inc.

CBRE Global Investors is an independently operated affiliate of CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBG), the world’s premier, full-service commercial real estate services company, with approximately 36,000 employees (including affiliates) across more than 400 offices worldwide. This gives CBRE Global Investors a significant competitive edge, as the firm harnesses the research, market intelligence, investment sourcing, financing, leasing and property management of CBRE for the benefit of its investors.