CHICAGO, IL and LONDON, October 1, 2025 – Harrison Street Asset Management (“Harrison Street” or “Firm”), a leading global investment management firm with over $100 billion in assets under management in highly differentiated alternative assets across infrastructure, real estate and credit strategies, today announced the appointment of Ivo de Wit as Managing Director of Portfolio Management. Based in London, Mr. de Wit will oversee portfolio management for Harrison Street’s European open-ended core real estate strategy. In this role, he will be responsible for research and strategy, analytics, portfolio construction, and investment execution.
Harrison Street was an early pioneer in launching a core diversified strategy exclusively focused on alternative real estate. The appointment of Mr. de Wit reflects the firm’s continued focus on core opportunities, and an expanded focus on European core investments, as investors increasingly incorporate alternative assets into their core allocations.
A seasoned investment professional with over 25 years of experience in global real estate, Mr. de Wit brings deep knowledge and expertise across sectors, including student housing, senior living, medical office, self storage, and life sciences, along with a deep commitment to ESG principles. In this new role, Mr. de Wit will continue to build on Harrison Street’s legacy as a pioneer in alternative real estate by investing in an emerging set of opportunities in core assets across European alternative property sectors, while maintaining a culture of excellence and innovation across the team and platform.
Prior to joining Harrison Street, Mr. de Wit served as Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, where he led the European Core+ Real Estate strategy and developed the research and analytic capabilities. His experience also includes serving as the Fund Manager for CBRE’s Global Alpha Fund, Executive position at Evolution Global Investors, Portfolio Manager at ING Real Estate, and Head of Strategy at Clarion Partners. Over the course of his career, he has managed global portfolios totaling more than $9 billion and contributed to capital raises that totaled over $10 billion in equity from corporate pension schemes, local government pension schemes, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies and high net worth platforms around the world.
“Ivo’s deep expertise across global real estate markets, his experience managing core investment portfolios, and his proven ability to scale platforms make him an outstanding addition to our team,” said Christopher Merrill, Co-Founder & Global CEO of Harrison Street. “Ivo joins us at a time when we are seeing investors increasingly consider core strategies when allocating to European alternative real estate. His portfolio management leadership will be instrumental as we continue expanding our European platform and providing investors with access to alternative assets through an even greater number of innovative solutions.”
Mr. de Wit holds an MA in Economics and a Ph.D. in Finance from Maastricht University, as well as an MBA from the Joint Global Executive Program at Columbia Business School and London Business School.
About Harrison Street Asset Management
Harrison Street Asset Management is a leading global alternative investment management firm with over $100 billion in assets under management through highly differentiated assets across infrastructure, real estate and credit strategies. Headquartered in Chicago, Toronto and London with approximately 520 employees in offices across North America, Europe, Aisa and the Middle East, the firm offers innovative solutions across a variety of closed-end, open-end and specialized vehicles on behalf of 900 institutional and over 300 Registered Investment Advisors.1
Harrison Street Real Estate Capital, LLC has been recognized as one of the Best Places to Work by Pensions & Investments for ten years (2014-2020, 2022-2024) and has received 16 PERE awards since 2019, including the 2024 Alternatives Investor of the Year – Global award. No compensation was paid in exchange for these awards; however, a submission fee was required for “Best Places to Work.” For more information, visit www.harrisonst.com.
1 HSAM data is generally comprised of the aggregated data of investment advisors that, subject to regulatory approvals, will be owned in whole or in part by HSAM. Assets under management (“AUM”) reflects the AUM for the investment advisory and asset management clients of such investment advisors and is inclusive of the regulatory AUM of such investment advisors that is reported in their respective Form ADVs.
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