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Mr Aqil Khan, speaking at Real Estate Investment World USA 2010

Mr Aqil Khan,
Head of Indirect Property, Zurich
Aberdeen Asset Management

Aqil is a Director in the indirect investment management team, and is based in Zurich. He was a Director and Head of Real Estate Investments of Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management and a member of the Real Estate and Private Equity Investment Committee. In his role he successfully managed existing and developed new real estate fund of funds in Europe, Asia and the US. Prior Aqil worked in the Suisse pension fund industry as Portfolio Manager of Indirect Assets, where he established the division of international and national real estate fund investments, and also designed and implemented the respective processes. In this role he was responsible for the build up of the international real estate portfolio. Aqil holds a Masters Degree in Business (Diplom-Kaufmann) from the University of Frankfurt and a degree as a Real Estate Economist from the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel, Germany.

Appearing:

Day one: Thursday, December 2, 2010

2.45pm

Keynote panel session: Will institutional investors start allocating to real estate again?

Have the scars healed or will institutional investors continue to be risk averse and reluctant to invest in real estate?
Capturing pensions’ interest: where are they investing and why? How much longer can they sit on their money without generating returns?
What can funds do to garner favor from institutional investors?

Mr Joshua Daitch,

Senior Managing Director, Institutional Real Estate Multi-Manager Group,
Mesirow Financial

Mr Jerry Davis,

Chairman,
City of New Orleans

Mr Rodgers Harshbarger,

Associate Director,
UNC Management Company Inc.

Ms Alisa Mall,

Associate Director of Investments - Real estate,
Carnegie Corporation

Mr Richard Moore,

Trustee, Investment Committee Member,
Wake Forest University Endowment

Mr Aqil Khan,

Head of Indirect Property, Zurich,
Aberdeen Asset Management