Salter Bros hires lead for Asia

Rahul Ghai has been hired to lead the Australian alternative investment group Salter Brothers' real estate expansion in the region.

In his new role, Ghai will lead Salter Brothers' growth outside of Australia, where he will start by identifying investment opportunities with the firm's capital partners and institutional clients.

The firm is looking at both bespoke mandates for its institutional investors and an Asia-focused value-add fund to be launched next year, according to commentary posted on the firm's website.

Ghai joins the firm's newly established Singapore office from Swiss manager Partners Group, where he led the group's European real estate business.

Before that, he served as the firm's regional head for Asia based in Singapore.

Earlier, he spent six years at Deutsche Bank in Singapore as head of investments for Asia-Pacific. and Standard Chartered Bank in a similar role.

Salter Brothers has a team of seven investment professionals across Singapore and Japan.

"We are excited about the calibre of the team that we have assembled to launch our Asian expansion, with teams now based in Singapore and Japan," said Paul Salter in the commentary.

"We are committed to the region with in-country teams that can leverage our existing scale in Asia-Pacific. In Rahul, we have an experienced leader who we believe is the right person to grow our franchise throughout Asia."