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.