Marty Cropp

Principal Real Estate offers a number of real estate investment strategies relating to direct and indirect investment in real estate and real estate interests. The strategies fall into four different areas: private equity real estate; public real estate equity securities issued by real estate investment trusts (REITs) and other companies involved in the commercial real estate business; private real estate debt; and public real estate debt securities, such as commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS). The firm combines top-down technical analysis and a bottom-up fundamental approach to arrive at a consistent and informed investment decision.

Principal AM has divided their investment management operations into several unique boutiques. The equities boutiques render advice primarily for equity securities. They utilize internally generated fundamental research that focuses on bottom-up stock selection within a sophisticated comparative framework. The fixed income boutique renders advice primarily for debt securities. Their currency boutiques render advice for active and passive currency. Applying a fundamental-discretionary, macroeconomic theme-based investment approach to portfolio management, the strategies include absolute return as well as base currency hedging strategies.

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