MetLife Investment Management Names Chris Aiken Head of Real Estate Equity Strategies

Met Life Investment Management Names Chris Aiken Head of Real Estate Equity Strategies Key Takeaways

• Leads MIM's direct property investment platform for the Real Estate Equity Strategies business, overseeing core to opportunistic strategies.
• MIM's real estate portfolio totaled $106.2 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2026, underscoring platform scale.
• Experienced real estate leader with prior roles at Safanad, Black Rock, Salomon Smith Barney, and degrees from NYU and Morehouse.

Met Life Investment Management (MIM), the institutional asset management business of Met Life, Inc., has announced that Chris Aiken has been appointed head of Real Estate Equity Strategies, effective immediately. He will report to Andrea Drasites, global head of Real Estate and Agricultural Finance.

As head of Real Estate Equity Strategies, Aiken will lead MIM’s direct property investment platform and oversee investing activities on behalf of Met Life’s general account and third-party institutional investors across core, core-plus, build-to-core, value-add and opportunistic strategies.

MIM’s real estate portfolio represented $106.2 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2026.

Aiken earned an M.S. in Real Estate Finance from New York University and a B.A. in Business Administration from Morehouse College. He is a member and co-chair of the Membership Committee for the Real Estate Executive Council and a member of the Urban Land Institute’s Urban Development Mixed-Use Council.