BOSTON, MA — TH Real Estate, an affiliate of Nuveen (the investment management arm of TIAA), has appointed Manuel Martin as co-head of its US Retail Sector platform. He joins US co-head John Ragland in leading the company’s dedicated retail sector investment team and overseeing all retail equity acquisitions, dispositions and asset management in the US. After a 40-year career in real estate, Ragland will retire in February 2019. Martin is an 18-year real estate industry veteran with deep acquisition and asset management expertise in the European, US and Latin American retail areas. As co-head of the US retail strategy, Martin will help to lead of team of investment and operations professionals that provide deep specialist investment expertise in the retail sector.