JOINING AFIRE
Membership with AFIRE is invitation-only and exclusive to approved institutional investors, associate organizations, and supporting firms.
Membership is organization-based, and each member organization is represented by a primary delegate— typically the executive leader—alongside a list of approved company delegates, rising leaders, and invited guests.
MEMBER LEVELS
INSTITUTIONAL
- Institutions outside of the US or its US-controlled subsidiaries engaged in international real estate investing, such as pension funds, insurance companies, banks, and large public and private companies.
- May send two delegates to a conference on a complimentary basis. A third delegate may attend for the member meeting registration fee.
ASSOCIATE
- Firms actively engaged in managing and advising investment accounts for non-US institutions that are Institutional members or would qualify as such.
- Applicants must be sponsored by an AFIRE Institutional member and the Executive Committee must consider the applicant to be beneficial in the furtherance of the AFIRE’s goals.
- May send up to two delegates to a conference, with applicable member registration fees.
SUPPORTING
- International or US-based accounting and law firms actively engaged in representing foreign institutions that would qualify as Institutional members.
- Limited to 25 firms.
- May send up to two delegates to a conference, with applicable member registration fees.
JOIN AFIRE
(Fill out this form to receive an AFIRE Membership Prospectus.)
Karen is the head of acquisitions for Allianz Real Estate, and has worked to invest in more than $25 billion of unlisted institutional real estate over the past 20 years. The first half of her career was oriented toward closed-end value-add and opportunistic fund investments in office, retail and multi-family assets across continental Europe. Since 2011, Karen has primarily focused on core and core-plus commercial investments in US gateway markets.
