Wm. Polk Carey, CEO and Founder of W.P. Carey & Company, Dies at 81
Wm. Polk Carey, founder and chairman of investment management company, W. P. Carey & Company LLC, died Jan. 2 at a West Palm Beach, Fla. hospital. He was 81.
The entrepreneur formed W. P. Carey & Co. in 1973, primarily to structure single-asset private investments. Under his leadership the firm became a global leader in the commercial real estate industry and provided capital to hundreds of companies.
“Bill saw early on the benefits of using the REIT structure to match the investment goals of individual investors seeking stable, inflation-protected dividend yields with the long term financing needs of corporate owners of real estate,” according to Trevor Bond, CEO of W. P. Carey & Co. LLC (NYSE: WPC).
Carey was a pioneer in global corporate finance for more than 60 years. He played a large role in the development of the sale-leaseback investment strategy for commercial real estate. He also was a former member of NAREIT’s Board of Governors.
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