Principal Real Estate Securities R5 (PREPX)

Kelly D. Rush, CFA - CEO, Public Real Assets & CIO, Real Estate Securities  As CEO Of Public Real Assets, Kelly provides executive level leadership of Principal Asset Management’s listed real assets strategies including both real estate securities and listed infrastructure. As CIO of Real Estate Securities, he is further responsible for directing the daily activities of the listed real estate securities unit. Kelly founded Principal’s listed U.S. equity real estate securities business in 1998. Under his leadership, the business expanded into managing global strategies in 2007 and the firm is widely recognized as an industry leader in managing listed real estate equity securities. In 2019, Kelly played a leading role in the firm’s launch of a listed infrastructure strategy by successfully advocating for the development of the strategy and the hiring of the lead portfolio manager. Kelly joined the firm in 1987 as a member of Principal Financial Group’s real estate investment division. As a private market investment professional, he was responsible for generating commercial mortgage loan investments. In the mid-1990s his focus shifted to structuring commercial mortgage loans for public real estate companies and analyzing bonds issued by the same. Kelly received his MBA in business administration and a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Iowa. He has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of both the Iowa Society of Financial Analysts and the CFA Institute.