Anna Pandey is head of Asia real estate with GE Asset Management’s (GEAM) real estate team, leading the firm’s property investment efforts in the Asia Pacific region. She is based in Hong Kong, where she moved in January 2010 to set up GEAM’s real estate office in Asia. Alex Eidlin, managing director – Asia Pacific with Institutional Real Estate, Inc (IREI) and associate publisher of The Letter– Asia Pacific, recently spoke with Pandey about her firm’s real estate mandate and her views on the Asia Pacific property market.

When was GE Asset Management (GEAM) organised, and what was its mandate?

GE Asset Management and its predecessor organisations have been managing investments for GE’s US employee pension and benefits plans for over 80 years. In 1988, GEAM began offering investment management products and services to investors outside GE, and today man