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Wish I could help. Rumor tells me that it’s slower paced and more about attending investor conferences and researching managers, looking at manager returns and track records and allocating $ accordingly. I assume that it would open exit opps into fundraising or capital markets roles, perhaps?

 

Worked at a pension fund a few years back that directly owned their real estate rather than going through fund managers. Very much a long-term core buyer. The pension fund didn’t grow much while I was there, so the transaction volume was pretty low… more trading out some assets vs actually growing the portfolio. It was a low stress culture, and the pay was decent at the analyst level. It got much better at higher levels, especially for a LCOL market. Bonus was based on performance of the real estate portfolio as well as the pension fund as a whole.

 
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