Simon Martin
Chief Investment Strategist and Head of Research, Tristan Capital Partners
Simon Martin is Chief Investment Strategist and Head of Research at Tristan Capital
Partners (Tristan), with over 25 years’ experience in international real estate investment
management. He continues to focus on developing Tristan’s research-led investment
approach. He works closely with the firm’s investment and asset management teams
and actively participates in the portfolio management process. He has served on the
investment committee and has worked on every deal the firm has executed since
inception. Martin has worked with Tristan’s Founder and Executive Chairman/Chief
Investment Officer Ric Lewis for over 20 years and helped found Curzon Global
Partners in London in 1999, where he established its strategy function and led the
research team as it grew globally as part of AEW. He also works closely on a
day-to-day basis with the client development team to ensure that clients are kept
fully apprised of developments in the market and the implications for strategy.
Prior to joining Curzon Global Partners, Martin headed DTZ’s Fund Management and
Investment Strategy Group and worked for CB Hillier Parker’s investment research
team. He has also held a series of academic posts working as a researcher at
Cambridge University’s Property Research Unit and at Kingston University’s Real
Estate Faculty in London. Martin was latterly the CBRE Professor of Real Estate
Finance at the Henley Business School and still lectures occasionally at a number
of universities, including at Cass Business School and Saïd Business School.
