Authorized & Basic Funding Administration (LGIM) has employed Abrdn’s Neil Meikle to spice up its non-public property experience.
Meikle was beforehand world head of actual asset and personal credit score funding specialists at Abrdn.
He has been appointed to the newly-created position of head of actual property capital elevating at LGIM, based on Citywire.
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“LGIM has a transparent intention to proceed to take its market-leading capabilities and sustained monitor file throughout the actual property sector to shoppers, globally,” an LGIM spokesperson instructed Citywire.
“Neil shall be reporting into our head of gross sales, Christy Lindsay; actively fundraising the platform’s present merchandise, supporting future actual property options and methods, and enjoying a key position within the enlargement of Authorized & Basic’s total non-public markets providing.”
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LGIM has been clear about its plans to broaden its non-public property enterprise. In January, it submitted a regulatory utility to launch a non-public property fund for outlined contribution pension traders.
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