StepStone Real Estate announced that it has named Margaret McKnight as Head of Portfolio Solutions and added Sara Rutledge as a Managing Director and Head of Market Research. In her new role as SRE's Head of Portfolio Solutions, Margaret McKnight, who joined SRE as a Partner in 2020, will focus on designing portfolios to meet the risk and return objectives of SRE's discretionary funds, separate accounts and advisory clients. Sara Rutledge, a highly experienced market research professional, whose prior experience includes serving as Director of Market Research for the National Counsel of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF), joined SRE as Managing Director in April to help Ms. McKnight and the team further these objectives.

Ms. Rutledge's responsibilities will be working with Ms. McKnight on producing SRE's semiannual House Views, which integrates SRE's research on geopolitical, economic, social and real estate market trends with on-the-ground input from SRE's 50-plus-person investment team, to identify risks and opportunities across real estate asset types, geographies and capital structures.