­­Mark Canavan is senior portfolio manager at the New Mexico Educational Retirement Board where he manages the pension funds’ $1.7 billion in real estate and real assets allocations. During his time at the Retirement Board, Canavan has expanded the scope and definition of what it means to invest in the real assets space to achieve stellar returns. Mr. Canavan was recently named on Trusted Insight’s Top 30 LPs Investing In Real Estate & Real Assets, and he graciously spoke with us on November 4.