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Head of Investment Strategy
Responsable de la gestion de l'innovation et des initiatives stratégiques
Responsable stratégies CORE - Fund Management
Global Head of Development, Real Assets
Responsable mondiale de la division real assets private equity
Head of Investment Strategy
Responsable de la gestion de l'innovation et des initiatives stratégiques
Responsable stratégies CORE - Fund Management
Global Head of Development, Real Assets
Responsable mondiale de la division real assets private equity
Global Head of Legal
Co-Head of Development France
Head of Disposal France
Head of Research
Deputy Head of Asia
Global Head of Business Development Real Assets - Member of the Management Board Real Assets
Gérant de fonds - Département Gestion créances immobilières
Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant - Real Assets
Senior Fund Manager
Asset Manager Retail
Responsable Portfolio Manager
Global Head of Alternative Credit
Directeur - Equipe dédiée à l'investissement dans les infrastructures
Head of Beneficial Ownership Reporting, Global Compliance
Directrice de l'asset management et des arbitrages France
Head of Investor Relations and Marketing
Head of Logistics
Analyste
Global Head of Asset Management and Development
Senior Transactions Manager Forestry, Real Assets
Investment Manager, Real Assets
Directeur général délégué
Head of Natural Capital & Impact Investments
Global Head of Living & Hospitality
Asset Manager
Head of Asset Management Europe
Global Co-Head of Real Estate
Head of Private Wealth
Global Head of Operations
Analyst
Co Head Développement France
Global Head of AXA IM Alts - Chief Executive Officer of AXA IM - Real Assets
Deputy Head of AXA IM Alts in charge of Corporate Development - Global Head of Structured Finance
Head of Communications, AXA IM Alts
Global head of listed real estate
Development Manager
The Crystal Défense building in Nanterre has changed ownership. DTZ Investors made it official today via a press release. In the role of the (...)
Axa IM Alts, acting on behalf of its clients, has signed the Sofia Hotel, located in the Les Corts district of Barcelona, in a (...)
Business Immo: Faced with strong macroeconomic and geopolitical tensions, real estate investors must now deal with a new financial context. How do you interpret (...)
After completing its first French acquisition in Villejuif at the end of 2022, Kadans Sciences Partners announced in mid-February its second French project, this (...)
Axa IM Alts has raised around €15bn of new capital in 2022 ; a volume that also incorporates previously raised non-deployed capital. A "solid" year, (...)
After making its first real estate acquisition in France last year*, Kadans Science Partner has just signed a promise of sale with the EPA (...)
Perial Asset Management (AM), on behalf of its PF Hospitalité Europe SCPI, acquired in December a portfolio of healthcare assets in Germany, named « (...)
Axa IM Alts likes Japan, where the group has just acquired a portfolio of 33 multi-family properties for approximately €420m. Located in the high-density (...)
Mipim announces the participation of the American essayist and economist Jeremy Rifkin in its next edition, which will be held from March 14 to (...)
Primonial REIM France has successfully completed the acquisition of the Bloom office building, located in the 12th arrondissement of Paris at 61-69 rue de Bercy, (...)
Kadans Science Partner has signed its first real estate acquisition in France, in Villejuif to be precise. The Axa IM Alts subsidiary has signed (...)
EY, whose lease on more than 44,000 sqm in the First Tower expires at the end of 2025, is preparing to turn the page (...)
It is certainly the symbol of La Défense. And this symbol, designed by Johan Otto von Spreckelsen and inaugurated in 1989, has taken the (...)
While Primonial REIM France's SCPI Primopierre made headlines in the third quarter of 2022 with the acquisition of the Sensorium building near Lille (€126.6m), (...)
Axa IM Alts announces the delivery of Stories, a new 64,000 sqm office complex in Saint-Ouen. Born from the reconstruction of a building dating from the (...)
Seven months after acquiring the future headquarters of the SNCF in Saint-Denis (93) from Axa IM Alts and Bouygues Immobilier*, Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) (...)
The French firm Virtuo Industrial Property has partnered with asset manager AXA IM Alts, acting on behalf of its clients, to develop six logistics (...)
In order to support its growth, AXA IM Alts has evolved its internal organisation with five new dedicated business lines and four promotions. The (...)
According to the latest news, the French National Financial Prosecutor's Office had entrusted the Triangle Tower affair to an investigating judge. The latter ordered (...)
Louis Leveillé Nizerolle has been appointed Head of Transactions France for AXA IM Alts. He will replace Antoine Mesnage, who has been promoted to (...)
AXA IM Alts has appointed Stephan Ackermann to the newly created position of Head of Client Group North America. His objective? To further develop (...)
Eurocommercial Properties has sold the Les Grands Hommes gallery in Bordeaux for €22.5m. At the same time, the Dutch property company sold the offices (...)
Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) has obtained a €152.7m loan - for a period of seven years - from Berlin Hyp. This financing is intended for (...)
AXA IM Alts raised a record €18.2bn of capital in 2021, including €10.2bn of third party commitments, reflecting the strong positioning and suitability of (...)
Marie Le Dirac'h has joined Ivanhoe Cambridge as Senior Director, Risks Management, Investments, Europe. Marie Le Dirac'h began her career at General Electric in 2007. (...)
AXA IM Alts has announced that it has agreed to acquire, via a forward-purchase agreement, a c. 400-bed purpose built student accommodation (PBSA) scheme in (...)
AXA IM Alts has completed the acquisition, on behalf of clients, of a 537 hectare deciduous forest known as ‘Forêt de la Reine’ in (...)
Black is the name of the programme launched by AXA IM Alts, on behalf of the Development Venture IV fund, and Redman in Clichy, a (...)
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) announced today the signing of a co-investment partnership with AXA IM Alts, a global leader in alternative investments acting on behalf of clients, for the (...)
AXA IM Alts, a global leader in alternative investments with c. €163bn of assets under management, announces the acquisition of a research and development (...)
Paris-based global manager AXA IM Alts has raised €1.9bn of equity to accelerate investments into the Life Sciences sector. The capital raised will primarily (...)
AXA IM Alts has acquired a site in central Munich, on behalf of clients, on which it plans to develop an “innovative and highly (...)
Segro plc has agreed the sale of a portfolio of six Italian urban warehouses for €127.51m to AXA IM Alts, on behalf of clients. The (...)
Kley, the student housing and coliving arm of AXA IM Alts, has announced the recruitment of new staff to continue the company's development throughout the country. (...)
AXA IM Alts and Vinci Immobilier announce the delivery to IHG of the Kimpton St Honoré Paris hotel, located in the 2nd district, between (...)
Macifimo, which is changing its name to Aéma REIM, has signed the acquisition of the Keïko tower in Issy-les-Moulineaux from Axa IM Alts, which (...)
AXA IM Alts' flagship European open-ended real estate fund, AXA CoRE Europe, has priced a seven year €500m green bond offering with a green finance framework (...)
Patrizia AG has announced the appointment of Amal Del Monaco as its new European Head of Asset Management and chair of its country heads. She (...)
With or without the health crisis, Hammerson is continuing its programme of disposals of French shopping centres deemed non-strategic. On the announcement of its (...)
Business Immo: How did the French logistics rental market fare in 2020, given the non-standard context imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic? Didier Malherbe: Paradoxically, the (...)
Real I.S. AG acquired a logistics portfolio in Mer — near Orléans — for its real estate funds BGV VIII Europa and Realisinvest Europa, (...)
AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets has agreed to acquire, by way of forward funding and on behalf of clients, a c. 30,000 sqm (...)
Kley, the student housing and coliving arm of AXA Investment-Managers - Real Assets, has just acquired off-plan a 7,200 sqm student residence from Eiffage Immobilier. Located in (...)
Business Immo: What does the entry of AXA IM - Real Assets into the capital of REI Habitat represent for REI Habitat? Paul Jarquin: This (...)
REI Habitat and AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets have just entered into a partnership aimed at accelerating the development of the timber-focused developer. (...)
French student housing and coliving operator and investor Kley, bought last year by AXA Investment Management – Real Assets, has announced the future opening (...)
AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets (AXA IM - Real Assets) has created a long term strategic partnership with in’li, the leading operator of (...)
Paris La Défense has just signed with AXA-IM Real Assets - acting on behalf of CDC Investissement Immobilier and another of its clients -, (...)
AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets (AXA IM - Real Assets) has just announced the successful final close of its second comingled European infrastructure debt fund, (...)
Paris-based manager AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets has announced strong performance for 2019, having completed €13.7bn of transactions on behalf of clients and (...)
Acting on behalf of an OPPCI fund, DTZ Investors REIM has acquired the Aquarel office building in Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, from AXA Investment Managers (...)
Paris-based La Francaise has acquired off-plan, on behalf of one of institutional clients, the Parallèle building, a 30,000 sqm office asset located in the (...)
Paris-based manager AXA IM-RA has completed the acquisition of a pan-European logistics portfolio of some 275,000 sqm from counterpart AEW on behalf of one (...)
Paris-based AXA IMRA has appointed Laurent Lavergne as Global Head of Asset Management & Development, naming Timothé Rauly as sole Head of Fund Management. The changes result largely from the (...)
US wealth management giant BlackRock has made its first investment in France from its Europe Property Fund V raised in summer - the 36,000 (...)
In its recently published European Coliving Index, JLL estimates that coliving has grown to 23,160 beds either built or in the development pipeline across (...)
Paris-based AXA-IMRA has, for an unknown sum, acquired the Kley Group, an operator of student housing across France. Vendor was its founder. California's Oaktree Capital Management. Oaktree said Kley is (...)
France's AXA IM - Real Assets has completed its €900m purchase of the entire share capital of NorthStar Realty Europe, which holds €1.1bn of (...)
French REIT/SIIC Gecina and BNP Paribas Real Estate are dropping their joint bid to construct the future athletes' village for the Paris 2024 Olympics. The (...)
Paris-based AXA Investment Managers-Real Assets has acquired a 216-unit residential project in Barcelona, Spain, paying €77m in a forward purchase deal. The site has been (...)
Investment in French retail property fell by 24% between the first and second quarters to €550m, taking total in 1H19 to €1.3bn but household (...)
Giant Paris-based asset manager AXA IM-RA has added stakes in two Paris retail-based assets, Italie Deux and Passage du Havre, for a total investment of €676m. The (...)
Paris-based AXA Investment Managers-Real Assets has made its fifth Amsterdam hotel acquisition, purchasing the DoubleTree by Hilton at the Dutch capital's central station. In a (...)
Germany's KanAm Grund group has paid around €100m to acquire eight office buildings in Spain's second city Barcelona, all leased to the Catalonian government, local media (...)
Korea's Mirae Asset Daewoo and France's Amundi Real Estate have confirmed their purchase of the 67,036 sqm Majunga tower in Paris La Défense, advised by Deloitte. Mirae Asset Daewoo (...)
Paris-based AXA Investment Managers is acquiring NYSE-listed European office investor NorthStar Realty Europe for around $900m, mainly for its assets on behalf of clients. In (...)
France has selected the companies which will be assigned to develop the Athletes' Village for the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics. The infrastructure is planned (...)
South Korean investors are watching Paris La Défense closely after news Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield has sold the Majunga tower to Seoul-based Mirae Asset Daewoo for €850m. The deal raises (...)
AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets made €15.2bn of transactions last year, ending with €82bn AUM, and will continue to expand globally, stressing alternatives, value-add (...)
With a near €1.4bn bid, France's CDC Habitat, backed by two state pension funds and Germany's Vonovia, has won the 4,000-unit housing portfolio sold (...)
Business Immo: Who is Greystar? Hideki Kurata: Greystar is an integrated American-based platform specialising in residential real estate in the broad sense, with particular expertise (...)
AXA Investment Managers-Real Assets has completed transformation of a 19-storey office tower near the Gare de Lyon in Paris into the Tour Paris-Lyon hotel, (...)
Paris-based investment manager La Francaise has acquired German property asset manager Veritas, which runs over €7bn AUM in two firms based in Frankfurt and (...)
The future of retail lies not in online or stores but in multi-channel, the EPRA conference heard last week. But internet shopping has further (...)
European real estate investment slowed 19%yy in the first half to €109.8bn as high prices led institutions to scale back, says New York-based research (...)
Paris-based AXA IM-Real Assets has acquired the remaining interest in European data centre operator DATA4 from Colony Capital, taking its ownership from 37%. The deal price has (...)
Just one day after adding five logistics properties in Germany, US giant Blackstone is adding seven in France for €175m via Gramercy Europe, part of US REIT (...)
Primarily due to rapid growth of big managers, aided by a trend to consolidation, average assets managed by global property funds last year rose (...)
AXA Investment Managers - Real Assets, one of Europe's largest investing institutions, has acquire a €250m portfolio of elderly care residential facilities in Paris (...)
The entry of GPIF, Japan Post and other giant Tokyo institutions to European property is happening but may take longer if managers reject inital fee (...)
Rule of law, transparency and liquidity in global real estate markets are the key criteria for allocations, the INREV Annual Conference heard in a panel bringing (...)
The European economic cycle is not yet at its peak and this year should be the strongest since the crisis - but could extend (...)
The sharp rise in tourism to Spain that has brought at least two REITs and numerous funds surging into its hotel sector has sparked (...)
Poland's Griffin Real Estate, controlled by US funds Oaktree, PIMCO and South Africa's Redefine, has signed a deal reported earlier to acquire 28 domestic (...)
Financial markets and economies have hit a sweet spot, with strong growth continuing and no sign of stagflation in sight. While growth does remain (...)
The global financial crisis defied the vast majority of policymakers, but none more so than central banks. Based on economic history, and fearful of (...)
On Sunday 1 October, Catalonia held a controversial referendum for independence. The vote was deemed unconstitutional by the Spanish Constitutional Court and the central (...)
In last month investment strategy, we highlighted how dwindling confidence in US policy-making, coupled with upbeat European growth momentum, had reshaped the market outlook. (...)
The digital economy is becoming ever-more ubiquitous. Yet, its implications for investors remain largely unaddressed, as the link between the micro developments found in (...)
・Monetary policy is being challenged by the changing inflation landscape in the digital economy as well as by the emergence of alternative currencies that (...)
・In the US, sentiment towards politics and policy has deteriorated as a result of escalating tensions with North Korea and poor cooperation between the (...)
Fears of a disruptive unwind of China’s structural imbalances have plagued the market in recent years. Given China’s global significance, such a shock could (...)
Regardless of President Trump announcing that the “United States will cease all implementation of the non-binding Paris Accord”, agreed at COP21 (Conference of Parties) (...)
The most spectacular change since our last Monthly Strategy paper has been the strength of the euro against the dollar. The currency’s appreciation reflects (...)
Following the recent spate of political events, the economic outlook looks far brighter than it did six months ago, mostly thanks to the euro (...)
European residential markets are subject to a high degree of diversity, resulting from differences in both institutional and regulatory factors. Local market knowledge and (...)
With the Austrian, Dutch and now French elections having been ‘successfully’ navigated, fears of a populist wave hampering both globalisation and global growth have (...)
2016 saw Australia celebrate its 25th consecutive year of GDP growth. And, with average growth of 2.7% per annum forecast over the next three (...)
As political risks in France (hopefully) continue to recede (according to our 6-49 model, the risk of a disruptive result in the French elections (...)
Global political effervescence dominated markets over recent times and as a result it has managed on many occasions to diminish the impact of much (...)
The Goldilocks analogy is arguably fitting in describing a US economy entering its eighth consecutive year of growth. A protracted recovery following the global (...)
Markets have started looking on the bright side of life again after the Dutch elections, if tighter spreads in some European markets are anything (...)
We are all generators of data. From the smart phones in our pockets to our watching of TV on connected devices, the amount of (...)
Using correlations across asset classes, we have mapped a variety of market conditions. The current conditions point to a benign environment, which is consistent (...)
2016 started with a market crash and then between Brexit and the US election, it looked like a political roller coaster was on its (...)
is back and its return has revived investors’ expectations for growth. In turn, bond yields and commodity prices have risen. However, these movements are (...)
Almost everyone relies on infrastructure in one way or another. Whether it is taking the train to work, having clean drinking water, turning on (...)
A focus on the top 25 Global Cities, as defined in previous AXA IM – Real Assets research, includes many within the Asia Pacific (...)
Over half of global office investment over the last five years occurred in just 25 cities. We are used to seeing remarkable statistics on (...)
A surprisingly benign summer despite Brexit and ongoing modest recovery should not leave room for complacency. Central banks remain at the centre of market focus (...)
The pollsters called it wrong, again. The UK has voted to leave the European Union (EU). While this was always a possibility, few markets (...)
An unexpected equity rally in July seems to have been driven by upside surprises in US economic data and investors re-risking post Brexit. Meanwhile, central (...)
The emergence of a new generation of better-informed and time-pressed shoppers has disrupted consumption patterns. The digital revolution and the prevalence of collaborative social (...)
The unique characteristics of the real estate asset class, combined with visibility on the underlying cash-flow streams, enables real estate investors with a deep (...)
Online sales across Europe have grown at a much faster pace than overall retail sales, increasing by 18.4% across Europe in 2015, compared to (...)
Global real estate has had a great run.Performance has been strong; global property funds returned 12.5% year-over-year as at Q1 2016, versus low single-digit (...)
Hot-desking, co-working, remote login, touchdown space… Flexible workspace is home to a large range of work concepts and an even greater choice of workplace-related (...)
Over the last five years or so, many Commercial Real Estate (CRE) investors have favoured income producing, stable assets in main locations. Targeting investments (...)
The global hotel industry has benefitted from an unparalleled rise in international travel over several decades. Hotel investors have positioned themselves to capture this (...)
It is natural to approach each New Year with optimism, but markets had faltered just one month into 2016. Global equities stood around 12% (...)
The dreadful opening week of the Chinese markets for 2016 has reignited concerns about the world's second largest economy. What's more is that these (...)
Investment returns can often deviate from their long-term averages. Figure 1 shows that while average annual IPD UK capital returns were 4.2% between 1973 (...)
The rise in EU28 GDP of 0.4% in the fourth quarter of 2013 followed 0.3% of the third quarter, although the preliminary estimate for (...)
The middle of 2013 heralded a turning point in economic sentiment. The Bloomberg Consensus Forecasts saw upward revisions to both the 2013 and 2014 (...)
EU28 GDP rose by 0.3% in the third quarter of the year, disappointing after the 0.4% of the second quarter, but it was at (...)
The rise in EU27 GDP of 0.4% in the second quarter of the year represented an economic turning point, after the previous six quarters (...)
The UK economy produced 0.7% growth in Q2, largely driven by the service sector. Encouragingly, all four main industrial sectors contributed to growth and (...)
German GDP grew by 0.7% in Q2 2013 on the back of strong household consumption and government expenditure, although the main driver of increased (...)
Denmark’s economy has been contracting, but there are signs that the consumer sector, in particular, has stabilised following improvements in the housing market Office sector (...)
France technically recovered from recession in the second quarter, but structural problems remain which will weigh ongrowth. We view the quarter’s growth as short (...)
As a result of the newly-introduced austerity programme and the low growth elsewhere in Europe, the French economy is experiencing a double-dip recession and (...)
GDP rose by a marginal 0.1% in Q1 2013. At a country level office vacancy rates declined in Germany on average despite weakening demand. Frankfurt experienced, (...)
GDP growth has almost stagnated, with no growth during Q4 2012 and a rise of just 0.1% in Q1 2013 Despite significant development completions expected (...)
The 0.5% fall in European GDP in the fourth quarter of last year was both below consensus expectations and a disappointment to the markets, (...)
Quarterly GDP growth remains volatile, but employment growth has remained positive, with the number of employed persons reaching an all-time high in October. The City, (...)
The strength of the Swiss franc has weakened the competititveness of Swiss exports, but domestic demand remained strong in 2012, and GDP is expected (...)
Germany avoided a double dip recession in 2012, but the final quarter disappointed with a GDP fall of 0.6%. Office take-up in Q4 represented the (...)
The French economy is deteriorating, exacerbated by reducing government expenditure and repressive austerity measures. Occupiers have scaled back relocation plans and are increasingly willing to (...)
While 2012 started positively following the ECB’s first LTRO (December 2011) and in expectation of a second (which duly arrived at the end of (...)
UK GDP is estimated to have grown by 1.0% in Q3 and, even allowing for 'exceptionals', together with upward revisions to Q2, this suggests (...)
GDP remained almost flat in Q3 with only 0.2% growth. Take-up in the Paris region office market year-to-date is 19% below the same period in (...)
Online retail is no longer a marginal sales channel and its pace of growth will see online capture almost all retail sales growth in (...)
Spain reached a record high (since 1990) of 13.1% office availability in Q2 2012 from the previous quarter’s 12.9%, and is now way above (...)
UK GDP contracted by 0.7% in Q2, significantly worse than consensus estimates. Demand fundamentals are weakening in the London office market, and grade A (...)
French GDP has remained unchanged for the past three quarters and some indicators point to a deteriorating business environment. Prime office CBD rental values (...)
Although the Greek ‘second’ election results averted a direct confrontation on the austerity measures with the other eurozone countries, the focus of the euro (...)
Property’s total returns over the long-term have positioned between those of equities and bonds. Similarly, its risk (as measured by volatility) lies between the two (...)
Cross-border investing increases opportunities to diversify and, despite expectations of economic convergence, these are not being substantially eroded. European country-specific risk is now showing a (...)
Economic growth during 2011 was positive, but stemmed largely from export-strength, supported by FX weakness and buoyant conditions in trading partner markets (e.g. Germany). Having (...)
GDP growth fell by 0.2% in Q4 as manufacturing sector growth declined by nearly 1%. London City quarterly office lettings fell with increasing concerns over (...)
Resolution of the euro crisis appears no closer and the bond market pressures continue to build. While a withdrawal of one or more countries (...)
Government bond yields polarised further during 2011 as investors sought to invest in 'safe-haven' markets such as Switzerland, Germany, Sweden and Norway. Annual GDP growth (...)
Resolution of the euro crisis appears no closer and the bond market pressures continue to build. While a withdrawal of one or more countries (...)
The eurozone crisis is evolving but necessarily towards a rapid or, indeed, satisfactory conclusion. Greece’s original ‘soft default’ proposal – the voluntary loss 21% (...)
The stresses increased within the eurozone over the last few months and these are accelerating rather tahn abating. This is evident in the polarisation (...)
After an exceptionally good Q1, GDP growth surprised by dropping to 0% in Q2 2011. Office vacancy rate increased from 6.8% to 7.1% in Ile (...)
While UK consumption deteriorated, business confidence continued to improve. Inflation remains high; interest rate rises will follow, but have, so far, been deferred. Net new demand (...)
Currently over a third of the German Open-End Funds (by AuM) are closed for redemptions or are in liquidation. The total property market value of (...)
Economic growth slowed in the second half of 2010, but Germany had an exceptionally good 2010 with a 3.6% GDP increase. With continuing new supply (...)
The recent crisis highlighted more than ever the need for a deep overhaul of the supervisory framework within which the European Insurance industry operates. (...)