Philipp von La Rosée is managing director, based in Munich, of AM Alpha — a family office and multi-family office — and Caroline Dellasega is the organisation’s vice president of investor relations, based in Singapore. They recently spoke with Institutional Real Estate Asia Pacific’s senior editor Dr Jennifer Molloy about the firm’s real estate investment programme.

When was AM Alpha founded and what is its mandate? What distinguishes AM Alpha?

von La Rosée: AM Alpha was founded in 2006 as a family office, and then over time, other families, foundations and institutional investors have joined us. We’re headquartered in Munich, and our mandate is to invest sustainably into global real estate. As we are an independent family business, we can think long-term and invest anti-cyclically, taking an agile approach, which means we can form our