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$ 83.2 B
Assets under management (USD)
(as of December 31, 2023) Learn more.

About BGO

BGO is a leading, global real estate investment management advisor and a globally-recognized provider of real estate services. BGO serves the interests of more than 750 institutional clients with approximately $83 billion USD of assets under management (as of December 31, 2023) and expertise in the asset management of office, industrial, multi-residential, retail and hospitality property across the globe. BGO has offices in 27 cities across 13 countries with deep, local knowledge, experience, and extensive networks in the regions where we invest in and manage real estate assets on behalf of our clients in primary, secondary and co-investment markets. BGO is a part of SLC Management, the institutional alternatives and traditional asset management business of Sun Life.

The assets under management shown above includes real estate equity and mortgage investments managed by the BGO group of companies and their affiliates, and as of 1Q21, includes certain uncalled capital commitments for discretionary capital until they are legally expired and excludes certain uncalled capital commitments where the investor has complete discretion over investment.

Effective July 1, 2019, GreenOak Real Estate merged with Bentall Kennedy real estate investment management platform and now operates as BGO through various legal entities on a global basis. Accordingly, with respect to historical information prior to July 1, 2019, including but not limited to performance data, AUM, location, years of experience and industry recognition, such information is presented herein with respect to the businesses previously operated by each of GreenOak and Bentall Kennedy respectively.

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BGO's relentless commitment to our client relationships is the guiding force behind our global real estate investment platform and our breadth of strategies that produce strong performance and value for our investors.

 

BGO draws on the knowledge and experience of our real estate experts positioned in 27 cities and 13 countries around the world to target and deliver attractive real estate investment opportunities for our investors in gateway cities in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. Our strategic perspective is enriched by a deep connection to the local regions where we operate, and a sophisticated understanding of the evolving macro trends that impact commercial real estate markets.

Our investment professionals are supported by in-house research capacity and extensive market intelligence networks to source opportunities for our clients. Our asset management teams enhance value further by executing active asset repositioning, leasing, refurbishment, and redevelopment strategies, with hands-on involvement in daily operations and leasing.

Our history of global leadership in sustainable and responsible investing principles represents our promise to uphold the highest levels of integrity in all that we do to serve our clients and their constituencies for generations to come.

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Investment vehicles

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Asia Value-Add Series

Open for Investment/Asia/Value-Add/CLOSED END

Overview

The Asia Value Add Series is a close-ended, value-add commingled fund series that targets investment opportunities in Tokyo and other major urban markets in Japan. We utilize our familiarity with the local markets to source and evaluate attractive investment opportunities, focusing on balance sheet restructurings and other distress-related factors that motivate sellers. Our Asia investment team has extensive execution experience across all real estate asset classes, allowing us to pursue complex situations and tailor capital structures to meet evolving market opportunities. Its members are bilingual and multicultural, which enables us to navigate the nuances of local markets and operate strategically.

The Aoyama Building Tokyo / Japan

BGO Daily Value Strategy

Open for Investment/USA/Core/OPEN ENDED

Overview

BGO's US Daily Value Strategy ("Daily Value") offers the opportunity to invest in BGO's Diversified US Property Strategy, but with daily valuation and enhanced liquidity. BGO's Diversified US Property Strategy invests in a diversified portfolio of institutional-quality real estate assets that include office buildings, warehouses, retail centers and apartments across major U.S. metropolitan markets. The strategy is designed to provide investors with competitive, risk-adjusted returns throughout all real estate cycles.

SPOKE Chicago / USA

BGO Diversified US Property Strategy

Open for Investment/USA/Core/OPEN ENDED

Overview

BGO's BGO Diversified US Property Strategy is a core real estate private equity strategy that invests in a diversified, low-leveraged portfolio of real estate assets in the United States. The portfolio's experienced management team has created a portfolio of institutional-quality, income-producing assets through acquisitions, development, rehabilitation or repositioning of undervalued assets. The strategy is designed to provide investors with competitive, risk-adjusted returns over the real estate cycle.

Livermore Distribution Center San Francisco / USA

BGO US Core Plus Strategy

Open for Investment/USA/Core Plus/OPEN ENDED

Overview

BGO's BGO US Core Plus strategy is a core plus real estate portfolio that offers a distinct investment strategy with an attractive blend of income and appreciation for the associated risk. This strategy seeks to fill a gap between Core and Value-Add/Opportunistic investment strategies offering yield premium to Core along with value enhancement-driven appreciation with less risk than Value-Add/Opportunistic. Investments target high quality assets in gateway markets with a diversified focus of office, multifamily, industrial and retail.

Canadian Real Estate Plus Strategy

Open for Investment/Canada/Core/OPEN ENDED

Overview

The Canadian Real Estate Plus Pooled Strategy is a Canadian open-end core strategy offering investors the opportunity to invest with daily valuation and liquidity based on the Prime Canadian Property Strategy. This strategy is managed and offered by BGO Capital (Canada) Inc. The Prime Canadian Property Strategy is a diversified portfolio of properties that are primarily income-producing with strong underlying cash flows, located in major Canadian markets.

Bentall V Vancouver / Canada

Europe Core Plus Logistics Series

Open for Investment/Europe/Core Plus/CLOSED ENDED

Overview

The Europe Core Plus Logistics series of funds is a close-ended, Core Plus Fund that invests in assets located in major European logistics hubs such as London, Barcelona, Lyon, Paris, Bilbao, Verona and Antwerp utilizing moderate leverage. In Europe, our team members are multilingual and multinational, creating a dynamic unit that can pursue the best opportunities throughout the region.

Midlands / United Kingdom

UK/Europe Debt Series

Europe/Debt/CLOSED ENDED

Overview

Our European debt team offers an extensive network of proprietary industry relationships enabling them to access a wide range of lending opportunities. Our team has broad experience structuring, negotiating and syndicating lending arrangements and handles loan servicing and asset management in-house. Our European lending business also benefits from our integrated property platform, allowing our debt team members to draw on the complementary expertise and resource networks from across BGO.

Europe Value-Add Series

Open for Investment/Europe/Value-Add/CLOSED ENDED

Overview

The Europe Value-Add Series is a close-ended, value-add commingled fund series that targets investment opportunities located in major European markets. Drawing on broad experience, we seek to develop highly focused investment strategies targeting distress opportunities and deep value acquisitions in markets with solid underlying fundamentals. To date, we have pursued discrete strategies in the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Norway. Our European platform is vertically integrated, with significant in-house property, asset and development management capabilities, as well as sector-specific expertise. In Europe, our team members are multilingual and multinational, creating a dynamic unit that can pursue the best opportunities throughout the region.

Residential Madrid / Spain

MEPT

Open for Investment/USA/Core/OPEN ENDED

Overview

The MEPT Fund ("MEPT") is a core, open-end private equity real estate equity fund. The fund is advised by BGO and invests in a diversified portfolio of institutional-quality real estate assets across more than 25 major U.S. metropolitan markets. Founded in 1982, the Fund's research-driven investment strategy focuses on office, industrial, retail, and multifamily assets in U.S. primary markets and seeks to produce stable income and competitive risk-adjusted total returns. MEPT executes this strategy with a commitment to industry-leading environmental sustainability standards, socially responsible investing practices, and superior governance principles.

Livermore Distribution Center San Francisco / USA

Prime Canadian Property Strategy

Open for Investment/Canada/Core/OPEN ENDED

Overview

BGO's Prime Canadian Property Strategy is a diversified portfolio of properties that are primarily income-producing with strong underlying cash flows, located in major Canadian markets. This portfolio of office, industrial, retail and multi-family residential properties is designed to provide investors with a strong, stable income return with an emphasis on capital preservation and long-term growth for inflation protection.

Bentall V Vancouver / Canada

Canadian Value-Add Series

Open for Investment/Canada/Value-Add/CLOSED END

Overview

The Canadian Value Add Series is a close-ended, value-add commingled fund series that targets investment opportunities located in major Canadian markets. The strategy seeks to acquire institutional properties at meaningful discounts to intrinsic value with solid underlying fundamentals. The strategy intends to deploy a thematic-focused strategy by pursuing growth programs in property sectors and markets that benefit from secular tailwinds and by capitalizing on market dislocation in key Canadian sectors and markets, with a focus on supply chain evolution and housing affordability.

Separate Accounts Asia

Asia/Varies by account

Overview

BGO offers investment strategies for our clients tailored to their investment goals. Accounts are managed by our skilled real estate professionals with expertise in investment and development in office, retail, industrial, multi-family, medical office, and hotel assets. Strategies can encompass single sector to a diversified approach with mandates from core, core plus, value-add and opportunistic.

Separate Accounts Canada

Canada/Varies by account

Overview

BGO offers investment strategies for our clients tailored to their investment goals. Accounts are managed by our skilled real estate professionals with expertise in investment and development in office, retail, industrial, multi-family, medical office, and hotel assets. Strategies can encompass single sector to a diversified approach with mandates from core, core plus, value-add and opportunistic.

Separate Accounts Europe

Europe/Varies by account

Overview

BGO offers investment strategies for our clients tailored to their investment goals. Accounts are managed by our skilled real estate professionals with expertise in investment and development in office, retail, industrial, multi-family, medical office, and hotel assets. Strategies can encompass single sector to a diversified approach with mandates from core, core plus, value-add and opportunistic.

Separate Accounts U.S.

USA/Varies by account

Overview

BGO offers investment strategies for our clients tailored to their investment goals. Accounts are managed by our skilled real estate professionals with expertise in investment and development in office, retail, industrial, multi-family, medical office, and hotel assets. Strategies can encompass single sector to a diversified approach with mandates from core, core plus, value-add and opportunistic.

U.S. Value-Add Series

USA/Value-Add/CLOSED ENDED

Overview

The U.S. Value Add Series is a close-ended, value-add commingled fund series seeking to identify market dislocation and inefficiencies in major, coastal gateway cities where we can acquire underperforming assets in dynamic submarkets. We primarily target middle-market assets that can be acquired at discounts to replacement cost and will benefit from strategic repositioning and intensive asset management.

1700 California Street San Francisco / USA

BGO U.S Cold Storage Partnership

USA/Value-Add/CLOSED ENDED

Overview

The U.S. Cold Storage Partnership is a closed-end, ground-up development comingled fund seeking to capitalize on the under supply of modern, technology-enabled cold storage facilities across North America. We aim to deliver sustainable assets that provide ample flexibility for our tenant partners in targeted markets with attributes including but not limited to ports, food production, and pharmaceutical supply management near rapidly growing, underserved markets.

WELPUT

Europe/Core, Core Plus/CLOSED ENDED

Overview

WELPUT was formed in 2001 and is a specialist real estate fund which invests in Central London offices. WELPUT's objective is to invest in a portfolio of primarily office properties in Central London. This will be focused in the West End and Midtown, but will also include exposure to the City and other areas of Inner London. The portfolio currently consists of 9 assets which provide a balance of secure income and capital growth opportunities through refurbishment and development.

Stirling Square London / United Kingdom

Secondaries

Open for Investment/Global/Value-Add, Opportunistic/CLOSE-ENDED FUNDS, SMA

Overview

BGO Strategic Capital Partners has invested in real estate secondaries since its inception in 2002, navigating diverse economic and market conditions over multiple cycles. In 2014, BGO SCP launched its first dedicated secondaries fund, MREP Secondaries Fund, in response to the growing market opportunity for real estate secondaries. Its successor MREP Secondaries Fund II held a final closing in Q4 2018. Secondaries are also offered through separately managed accounts.

Our investment strategy encompasses both traditional secondaries, in which we purchase limited partner interests in funds, and GP-led recaps of individual assets or portfolios. This flexibility gives us a variety of ways to create liquidity and capital solutions for the existing investors in real estate deals. We look for attractive entry points into assets fitting our global investment themes and the opportunity to partner with strong GPs on their business plans moving forward.

We source secondaries by leveraging our integrated investment platform, team of secondary industry pioneers and broad manager network.

  • Inception: 2014
  • Investor Commitments: $1.5B (USD) as of December 31, 2023
  • Investment Geography: Global (U.S., Europe, Asia-Pacific)
  • Contact: scp@bgo.com
Project Grus Berlin / Multifamily

Co-Investments

Open for Investment/Global/Value-Add, Opportunistic/CLOSE-ENDED FUNDS, SMA

Overview

BGO Strategic Capital Partners has been pursuing direct property co-investments alongside its managers since 2008. In 2014, BGO SCP launched its first – and the market’s first – dedicated co-investments fund, MREP Co-Investments Fund, to provide investors with more targeted access to global co-investment opportunities. Successor MREP Co-Investments Fund II reached its final closing in Q2 2020. Co-Investments are also offered through separately managed accounts.

Our investment strategy is to partner with leading middle-market managers on both single asset acquisitions and larger programmatic transactions. This flexibility allows us to serve as a capital solution for managers seeking to acquire assets requiring excess capital sources, accelerated closing timelines, and fund concentration management. We look for well-located assets fitting our global investment themes and the opportunity to establish longstanding relationships with strong managers.

We source co-investments by leveraging our integrated investment platform, deep bench of professionals who have direct real estate investment experience and broad manager network.

  • Inception: 2014
  • Investor Commitments: $655M (USD) as of December 31, 2023
  • Investment Geography: Global (U.S., Europe, Asia-Pacific)
  • Contact: scp@bgo.com
Project Schnitzel Berlin / Office

Separately Managed Accounts - BGO SCP

Open for Investment/Global/Customized Programs

Overview

In addition to the BGO SCP flagship fund series, BGO SCP utilizes the team’s broad capabilities and the natural synergies stemming from its three complementary strategies to create customized real estate programs. Mandates are tailored by strategy (primaries, secondaries and co-investments), geography, risk/return profile and property types, among other themes, and offer varying degrees of investment discretion, allowing the investor to be involved in the investment decision-making process, as desired. We work collaboratively with our clients to meet their investment objectives.