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Manulife US Reit’s new CEO keen to tap co-working, tailwind sectors for growth

Tripp Gantt wants to build a higher proportion of growth tenants, and this will be done through capital recycling, not acquisitions, for now

Wong Pei Ting
Published Mon, Jun 6, 2022 · 05:50 AM

THE US office sector is facing its greatest identity crisis yet, as Covid-19 ushered in an era of hybrid work, and Tripp Gantt has just taken over the reins at pure-play US office real estate investment trust (Reit) Manulife US Reit : BTOU 0% (MUST).

Gantt, who was most recently the second-in-command of the real estate division of Washington State Investment Board (WSIB), a US pension fund with a US$29.6 billion in real estate assets under management (AUM), believes he is the right man for the job.

“My job has always been to look at both ma…

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