RREEF, the real estate investment business of Deutsche Bank's Asset Management division, has appointed Mark Roberts as managing director and global head of research.

In this new role, he will oversee the research teams that support RREEF's global real estate investment process. He is also a member of RREEF's Global Investment Committee. Roberts is based in New York and reports to Kurt Roeloffs, Global Chief Investment Officer of RREEF.

Roberts brings more than 25 years of real estate experience to RREEF. He joins from Invesco Real Estate where he was most recently global director of research, chairman of the firm’s investment strategy group, and a member of the executive and investment committees. Prior to Invesco Real Estate, Roberts was director of development/construction for Club Corp International, a global hospitality company, in Dallas, Texas.