Real Assets
About Real Assets
From co-mingled funds and joint-ventures, to separate accounts and tailored-made investment vehicles comprising regional and country-specific investment strategies, we manage more than €79 billion¹ on behalf of our 200+ third-party institutional clients and AXA insurance companies.
With around 600 people operating in over 20 countries and based in 14 offices around the world, the team combines in-depth, in-country knowledge with longstanding experience, strong convictions and a thorough understanding of capital structure.
This combination allows us to build strategies for our clients across the spectrum of Real Assets through a wide range of investment solutions which aim to deliver targeted returns commensurate with their risk profile. We are the number one portfolio and asset manager in Europe² in direct property and a global leader in Real Asset investment.
Our approach
Our size, experience and structure enable us to offer clients a 360° view of real assets investing - we invest in both equity and debt, across different real asset classes, geographies and via private and listed instruments.
This 360° view provides us with a thorough understanding of relative value in real asset markets that can be instrumental to optimising the management of economic cycles. It also promotes flexibility and agility in our investment decisions.
¹ Source: AXA IM – Real Assets data (unaudited) as at September 30, 2018
² Source: INREV Fund Manager Survey – May 2018
1 Source: INREV/ANREV Fund Manager Survey – May 2018. Rankings based on non-listed direct real estate assets under management.
2 Source: Best European Insurance Company Lender of the Year, Real Estate Capital 2014, 2015; Debt Investor of the Year, Property Investor Europe 2017; Alternative Lender of the Year, Property Investor Europe 2018
Isabelle Scemama, CEO of Real Assets
Insights
26 January 2018
January Investment Strategy: Beware of economic euphoria
Eurozone growth has recently been full of positive surprises, but risks remain.
15 December 2017
2018 Global Strategy Outlook
A strong cyclical macroeconomic backdrop should support earnings, low default rates, public finances and investor sentiment.
15 December 2017
The search for yield – hidden market risks call for prudence in 2018
Low volatility, carry strategies and the search for yield - different facets of the same phenomenon
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