RREEF, the real estate investment business of Deutsche Bank's Asset Management division, announced on Tuesday that Mark Roberts joined as a 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 the global director of research, chairman of the firm's investment strategy group, and a member of the executive & investment committees. Prior to Invesco Real Estate, where he held various leadership roles in research since 1996, Roberts was director of Development/Construction for Club Corp International, a global hospitality company, in Dallas, Texas.