AXA Real Estate

AXA Real Estate is the largest real estate portolio and asset manager in Europe. It structures and actively manages or advises investment products, seeking wide ranging opportunities along the risk spectrum to deliver targeted returns commensurate with clients' risk profiles, through a variety of investment strategies. These range from core to opportunistic, country-specific to geographically-diversified, sector-specific to multi-sector, with the capacity to invest at all levels of the capital structure.

Global growth remains a key priority and AXA Real Estate is currently expanding its presence in both the US and Asia, most recently with the opening of its US office in 2010.

Why AXA Real Estate?

AXA Real Estate is regularly awarded for its outstanding expertise. Its competitive advantage stems from its global fund management expertise combined with extensive on-the-ground deal sourcing, asset management and development execution capabilities. AXA Real Estate's investment beliefsembrace:

• Individual responsibility
• Active management
• Long term approach
• Insight-driven processes
• Individual investment solutions
• Fully integrated risk management

Investment philosophy and process

AXA Real Estate's investment process fully captures the advantages of global views and standards with local knowledge and execution capabilities:

• Top-down insights from proprietary macro-economic and real estate research and bottom-up market expertise for strategy and portfolio construction
• Extensive deal sourcing and transaction capability for quality asset selection
• Active on-going approach to asset management with a strong focus on adding investment and rental value
• Application of disciplined sales strategies to crystallize value
• In-house structuring, financing and tax expertise
• Diligent and integrated approach to risk management and governance
• Transparent and regular investor communication and reporting