Barings is an international investment management firm owned by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual). It operates as a subsidiary of MassMutual Financial Group, a diversified financial services organization. Barings sources differentiated opportunities across public and private fixed income, real estate and specialist equity markets.
Barings as a Real Estate investor manager focused on cities and regions that have strong macro - economic fundamentals and Milan and Lombardy are among those.
Valeria Falcone, Managing DirectorBarings is strongly committed on Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) criteria and in Milan, in the Bicocca area, the company started the office project Open 336, the first Net Zero Carbon (NZC) builind in Milan, with the aim to deliver a NZC asset, meaning that they completely offset the carbon emission both in construction and operations.
To obtain a NZC office building, it has been applied a new technology designed and built in Lombardy called Eco2air which consists of an air filtration system that retains CO2 and PM10 and returns clean air into the office space.
Next step, the company is committed to deliver NZC buildings in all asset classes, including residential and logistic.