AEW Capital Management

AEW Capital Management (AEW) is an American real estate investment firm headquartered in Boston. The firm is the real estate asset management platform of Natixis Investment Managers. In 2022, the firm was ranked by PERE (under Private Equity International) as the eighth largest Private Equity Real Estate firm based on total fundraising over the most recent five-year period. Background AEW was founded in 1981 by Peter Aldrich, Tom Eastman and Mark Waltch. The firm's name AEW is an abbreviation of Aldrich, Eastman & Waltch. AEW expanded into Europe in 1996 by opening an office in Paris and then into Asia in 2006 by opening an office in Singapore.