John Schaefer Email & Phone Number

John is a member of the Investment Committee and the Global Macro Strategy Committee. He is responsible for investment research and underwriting globally, with a focus on non-core investment strategies. He has also served as the lead portfolio manager on several of the Townsend multi-manager, commingled funds responsible for portfolio construction, portfolio management, and due diligence of funds, co-investments, direct properties, and secondary interests. ​Previously, Mr. Schaefer was a founding member of UBS Wealth Management’s real estate group where he sat on an Investment Committee responsible for the creation of a $10 billion global portfolio of direct properties, commingled funds and REITs. Prior to joining UBS, Mr. Schaefer worked in Deutsche Bank's real estate private equity group where he was responsible for structuring, underwriting, negotiating, and closing real estate investments. Mr. Schaefer began his career as a research analyst with Lend Lease Rosen, where he recommended real estate investment strategies to clients, authored research reports on commercial property markets and was responsible for REIT research and portfolio strategy. He received an MBA with honors from Columbia Business School and a BS with honors from the University of California, Berkeley.

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