LaSalle announces veteran's retirement

LaSalle Investment Management has announced that Ian Mackie, head of strategic partnerships for the Asia Pacific, and a member of its Asia Pacific investment committee, will retire at the end of 2018, after 40 years with the firm.

Mackie first joined Jones Lang Wootton in 1978 as a retail leasing agent in Sydney, transitioning into real estate investment management following the merger of Jones Lang Wootton and LaSalle Partners to create LaSalle Investment Management in 2000.

According to the firm, Mackie then established LaSalle's business platform in the Asia Pacific, and launched and raised capital for the LaSalle Asia Recovery Fund, the firm's first Asia fund. In the following years, he served as president for the first two iterations of both the LaSalle Japan Logistics Fund series and LaSalle Asia Opportunity Fund series.

Commenting on his tenure, Mackie said: "It has been a privilege and a genuine honour to have worked at one firm for 40 years. Every time I felt I needed a change in direction in my career, the extraordinary breadth of the JLL/LaSalle platform was able to throw up a new opportunity that was both a challenge, really interesting, and really exciting."

Mark Gabbay, LaSalle's chief executive officer - Asia Pacific, added: "Ian is one of the most respected fund management professionals in the industry, and both LaSalle and many colleagues have benefitted greatly from his guidance and mentorship in his 40 years with the firm...LaSalle thanks him for his many years of dedicated service, and [wishes] him the best in his retirement or next endeavour."