As part of the global research team, Bellman will focus on global asset allocation and coordinate the research efforts led by the firm’s three regional heads of research in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Bellman joins after seven years in real estate management at ING, most recently as the global head of research and strategy and previously as the Asia-Pacific head of research and strategy. Before that, he was with LaSalle Investment Management as regional director of research and strategy for Asia-Pacific.

In other recent developments at New York-listed Invesco, the asset management firm took on three research analysts for its global quantitative equity research team last month. Michael Abata, Eric Cheng and Charlie Ko all report to director of research, Andrew Waisburd.