The core strategy in the U.S. sources, closes and manages investments in the four primary property types (industrial, multifamily, office and retail) in major U.S. metropolitan markets. 

The core strategy sources, closes and manages investments in the primary property types in well-located, urban, growing middle-class markets throughout Asia Pacific.

Diversified, open-ended core strategy with the goal of targeting institutional quality assets in major metropoles and regional cities in Europe to build a modern, future-proof and well diversified portfolio providing an attractive and stable income return over the long-term, whilst incorporating a responsible investment philosophy.

AEW has been investing in European Core Strategies for over 20 years.

The European real estate logistics strategy includes Grade A logistics parks in key locations across the main logistics hubs in Continental Europe. Both existing assets and new logistics parks are developed into core assets with a network of preferred development partners. The strategy focuses on logistics hotspots in Continental Europe targeting Germany, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Spain and selected markets in Central Europe.  

The core plus & value-add investment strategy is a growth and income strategy that seeks to take advantage of the re-balancing of America's demography and the real estate investment opportunities that will follow in its wake.  The core plus & value-add investment strategy seeks to provide investors with an attractive return, comprised of current cash distributions and appreciation potential through re-positioning and other active management strategies.

AEW’s Asia Pacific core plus/value-add real estate strategy focuses on investments in office, residential and retail properties primarily in high-growth gateway cities across the Asia Pacific region. The strategies seek to add value through redevelopment, repositioning, re-leasing or recapitalization in order to provide both current income and appreciation potential.

AEW’s Pan-European real estate value-add strategy seeks to create value through asset repositioning, renovation, new capital structures and other active management strategies. The strategy targets assets across the main property types (logistics, office, living, retail and data centres) in both primary and secondary European markets.

AEW’s Seniors Housing Strategy targets opportunities for acquisition, development and select repositioning primarily in the memory care, assistant living, independent living and age-restricted sectors of the seniors housing market.  The general focus is on assets in major metropolitan markets in the U.S. that exhibit strong underlying income demographics for both seniors and their adult children, as well as favorable supply/demand characteristics.

AEW’s opportunistic real estate strategy seeks to identify and capitalize on emerging investment trends before they become fully-appreciated by the broader market, and to capitalize on them.

AEW’s North American diversified real estate equity securities strategy is designed with the goal to provide broad exposure to all major sectors of the public real estate market in North America, with the objective of achieving strong risk-adjusted returns. The diversified strategy typically includes 30-35 core positions.

AEW’s European diversified real estate equity securities strategy is designed with the goal to provide broad exposure to all major sectors of the public real estate market in Europe, with the objective of achieving strong risk-adjusted returns. The diversified strategy typically includes 30-35 core positions.

AEW’s Asia Pacific diversified real estate equity securities strategy is designed with the goal to provide broad exposure to all major sectors of the public real estate market in the Asia pacific region, with the objective of achieving strong risk-adjusted returns. The diversified strategy typically includes 30-35 core positions.

AEW’s global real estate equity securities strategy is designed with the goal to provide broad exposure to all major sectors of the public property markets throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific with the objective of achieving above-average income and long-term capital growth. The strategy typically includes 90-140 positions selected from our universe of approximately 280 REITs and other publicly traded real estate companies worldwide.

The global focused strategy is designed to seek more targeted exposure to the global real estate equity securities market, typically holding between 40-50 securities. The global focused strategy holds more concentrated positions in companies that present value opportunities, thereby seeking to provide above average income and long-term growth of capital. 

The absolute return real estate equity securities strategy offers dynamic long and short position in European real estate securities with the goal to show positive returns in both up and down markets. The typical number of positions is between 10 and 40 (5-20 long and 0-20 short).

The U.S. income REIT strategy is designed to offer enhanced income and risk-adjusted total returns through a disciplined value approach based on bottom-up security selection of primarily REIT preferred securities. Security selection is made with a particular emphasis on balance sheet strength; balance sheet strategy; relative evaluation of each security; and catalysts that will lead to the improvement/deterioration in overall credit metrics. 

The Europe senior debt real estate strategy targets senior real estate loans supported by core office, retail and logistics assets located in key European markets. The strategy seeks to seize opportunities created by banks’ need to comply with regulation to distribute their real estate loans and create a bond-like cash flow profile on a fully-collateralized basis. 

AEW’s Debt and Capital Markets team provides borrowers with a variety of full stack lending solutions including whole loans, mezzanine debt, and preferred equity. Flexible capital targets both stabilized and transitional properties, including development, across the risk/return spectrum generally in top 25 metropolitan areas in the U.S.

Separate Accounts & Transferred Asset Management typically begin with either a new capital allocation or transferred assets and a capital commitment for new investing.  Services include transferred asset management, work-out services and customized solutions.  A dedicated team that includes acquisitions, portfolio management, asset management and accounting professionals work exclusively on direct equity portfolios.

Separate Accounts & Transferred Asset Management typically begin with either a new capital allocation or transferred assets and a capital commitment for new investing.  Services include transferred asset management, work-out services and customized solutions.  A dedicated team that includes acquisitions, portfolio management, asset management and accounting professionals work exclusively on direct equity portfolios.

Separate Accounts & Transferred Asset Management typically begin with either a new capital allocation, or transferred assets and a capital commitment for new investing.  Services include transferred asset management, work-out services and customized solutions.  A dedicated team that includes acquisitions, portfolio management, asset management and accounting professionals work exclusively on direct equity portfolios.

UK real estate strategies that acquire assets across the UK and aim to provide a return from capital appreciation and income over the long-term. The strategies target assets across the main property types (industrial, logistics, office, residential, retail and leisure) in both primary and secondary UK markets.

AEW worked with independent Impact Advisers, The Good Economy, to develop a proprietary Impact Measurement & Management framework for the strategy. AEW's Impact Strategy seeks to create bespoke real estate solutions that address the place-based needs of the UK, in collaboration with local authorities, by increasing the provision of real estate with a social use value, while making environmental improvements to the extent possible.

The strategy targets assets across the living sector (including assisted living and key worker accommodation), care facilities, early years facilities and leisure/community facilities.