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 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 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.

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. 

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.