Plymouth Meeting, PA
AUM: $2.1 billion (03/31/09)

URDANG is an investor in and manager of public, private, global and U.S. only real estate investment strategies. Focused exclusively on real estate, their investment approach includes top-down market/country selection and bottom-up underwriting of properties, companies and management teams.

Strategies for adding value include ground-up development, renovation and releasing/repositioning of privately held real estate assets. Within the publicly listed real estate marketplace, the firm incorporates fundamental analysis along with a proprietary relative value model seeking to consistently earn excess returns while minimizing risk.

As an investor and manager, their success is firmly rooted in its commitment to aligning the company’s interests with those of its clients and employees as well as its commitment to quality, original research.

AUM includes assets managed as non-discretionary investment managers for, or by the firm’s officers as dual officers or employees of, The Bank of New York Mellon.