Paris-based fund and asset manager AEW has appointed real estate veteran Hans Vrensen as European head of research and strategy.
Vrensen will be based in London and oversee teams in London and Paris. His responsibilities will include advising the investment and asset management teams on macroeconomic and property market dynamics, contributing to the formation of investment strategies and performing primary and secondary property market analysis.
He will report to Rob Wilkinson, CEO of AEW Europe, and sit on AEW’s European Investment Committee.
Vrensen has worked in the real estate industry for more than 25 years, of which 15 years in commercial real estate investment management, valuation, consulting and research, and a further 10 years in managing real estate and ABS research publishing teams, including eight years in European CMBS/ABS sell side research and ratings analysis.
Prior to joining AEW, he acted as an external consultant to CREFC Europe for two years, and was global head of research at DTZ from 2009 to 2015, providing research for occupiers and investors while also assisting the group with strategic business planning. Vrensen has also worked for Barclays Capital as head of European securitisation research and at Moody’s Investor Services as a senior credit officer.
Commenting on his appointment, Wilkinson said: ‘Hans brings with him a wide range of real estate and capital markets experience. He joins a team whose commitment is to provide seamless applied research for the benefit of clients and the AEW platform. We are very pleased to bring someone of Hans’s calibre on board.’
