October update

Dirk Morris and members of the BTIM team
Watch the BTIM investment team present their views on current market conditions and the outlook for investors.

Money Magazine Best Fund Manager 2009

Winner - Standard and Poor's 2008 Fund Awards

Smart Investor Blue Ribbon Award. Winner 2008

Money Management - Fund Manager of the Year

Global property investments: AEW

AEW Capital Management LP ("AEW") is an investment advisory firm dedicated solely to real estate investment, management and research. AEW manages BT Investment Management’s exposure to global property in Europe and North America.

Founded in 1981, AEW adheres to a research-guided, value-oriented investment discipline that reflects their in-depth experience across market cycles. AEW and its affiliates manage real estate assets and securities on behalf of many of the world’s leading institutional and private investors.

AEW integrates quantitative research with hands-on real estate and capital markets expertise. Their rigorous investment discipline is designed to find companies whose shares represent the best combination of value and upside price potential for a given level of downside risk.

AEW’s value driven style recognises that property securities become mispriced relative to each other. They seek to exploit these anomalies in a disciplined framework which includes:

  • Bottom up stock selection that reflects AEW’s information and analysis advantage
  • Proprietary stock valuation models
  • Collegiate debate to leverage the complementary skills of all team members
  • Constant risk monitoring to ensure that the risk of positions is controlled and clearly understood.

AEW has a long history of successfully creating and executing core, value-added and opportunistic real estate investment strategies across market cycles. AEW source, close and manage investments in a range of primary property sectors.

BTIM constructs Australian domiciled feeder funds into the AEW Value Investors, L.P. fund series, a commingled value-added real estate fund. The fund seeks to provide investors with an attractive total return, as well as consistent current cash distributions through redevelopment, re-positioning, re-tenanting and other active management strategies.

Australian investors can access AEW’s global listed property expertise through our global property fund and a selection of diversified funds.