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MetLife Investment Management Names Chris Aiken Head of Real Estate Equity Strategies

  • MetLife Investment Management (MIM) appointed Chris Aiken as head of Real Estate Equity Strategies effective immediately.
  • Aiken will report to Andrea Drasites, the global head of Real Estate & Agricultural Finance.
  • He will lead MIM's direct property investment platform & oversee investing for MetLife's general account & third-party institutional investors across core, core-plus, build-to-core, value-add, & opportunistic strategies.
  • MIM's real estate portfolio held $106.2 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2026.
  • Aiken previously served as head of Acquisitions for MIM's Real Estate Equity Strategies Group & held prior roles at Safanad, BlackRock, & Salomon Smith Barney.
  • He holds an M.S. in Real Estate Finance from New York University & a B.A. in Business Administration from Morehouse College.
  • MIM reported total assets under management of $736.3 billion as of March 31, 2026.