1/17/2019 Tina Störmer becomes CEO and Country Head of Swiss Life Asset Managers in Germany, change of leadership at CORPUS SIREO Real Estate

• In a newly created position, Tina Störmer will take on responsibility for the development of all Swiss Life Asset Managers activities in Germany
• Ralph Günther takes over interim the management of CORPUS SIREO Real Estate in Germany

Tina Störmer (33), currently Head of Strategic & Special Tasks at Swiss Life Asset Managers, takes over as CEO and Country Head of Swiss Life Asset Managers in Germany, effective immediately. In this newly created position she is responsible for the development of the Swiss Life Asset Managers business strategy and organisation in Germany. Tina Störmer will become a member of the Executive Committee of Swiss Life Asset Managers and will report directly to Stefan Mächler, Group Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Swiss Life.

Tina Störmer studied real estate economics and earned a doctorate in economics before coming to Swiss Life Asset Managers in 2015, where she began by heading Business Management Real Estate. In 2018 she was appointed Head of Strategic & Special Tasks at Swiss Life Asset Managers.

Stefan Mächler, Group CIO of Swiss Life: “I am very pleased to be able to fill the position of CEO and Country Head of Swiss Life Asset Managers in Germany from within the company. Tina Störmer enjoys local roots and international experience in our industry. Germany, like Switzerland, France and the United Kingdom, is among our core markets and offers us attractive growth potential. We are convinced that she will be successful in further enhancing and expanding our German business and European activities.”


Change of leadership at CORPUS SIREO Real Estate
In addition, in Germany Ralph Günther (59) takes over the management of CORPUS SIREO Real Estate GmbH Cologne, a real estate company of Swiss Life Asset Managers. He succeeds Bernhard Berg (59), Spokesman of the Management Board of CORPUS SIREO Real Estate, who is leaving the company at his own request and by mutual agreement. As CEO ad interim, Ralph Günther will drive the further development and orientation of CORPUS SIREO Real Estate on the German real estate market and within Swiss Life Asset Managers. After more than two and a half years as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of CORPUS SIREO, he returns to operative management of the company, which he led successfully from 2009 to 2016. His successor as Chairman of the Supervisory Board at CORPUS SIREO Real Estate is Rudolf Keller (48), Head of Corporate Finance and M&A of the Swiss Life Group.

Stefan Mächler: “We thank Bernhard Berg for his great personal commitment and for his skilful stewardship of the development of CORPUS SIREO Real Estate. Milestones of his tenure were the development of the Swiss Life KVG and of the open-ended "Living + Working” public real estate fund, the expansion of CORPUS SIREO Real Estate business into Scandinavia, and such striking project developments as the Adlershof, the new Allianz head office in Berlin.”

“With Ralph Günther, a seasoned entrepreneur and an able real estate manager returns to the helm of CORPUS SIREO. Ralph Günther brings nearly 30 years of know-how in international real estate business and profound local market expertise in Germany to his position at CORPUS SIREO and Swiss Life Asset Managers. He will lead CORPUS SIREO ad interim”, Stefan Mächler goes on, “to ensure continuity and a seamless transition to a future-oriented management structure at the company.”

INFORMATION

Switzerland

Swiss Life Media Relations
Phone: +44 43 284 77 77
media.relations@swisslife.ch

Investor Relations
Phone: +41 43 284 52 76
investor.relations@swisslife.ch

France

Swiss Life REIM France
Carine Quentin, Directeur Marketing et Communication
Phone: +33 4 91 16 34 86
carine.quentin@swisslife-reim.fr


Germany

CORPUS SIREO Real Estate
Yvonne Hoberg, Director Public Relations
Phone: +49 221 39 90 0 120
yvonne.hoberg@corpussireo.com



UK

Mayfair Capital Investment Management Ltd.
James Lloyd, Director of Business Development and Marketing
Phone: +44 20 7291 6664
jlloyd@mayfaircapital.co.uk

www.swisslife-am.com




Swiss Life Asset Managers

Swiss Life Asset Managers has more than 160 years of experience in managing the assets of the Swiss Life Group. This insurance background has exerted a key influence on the investment philosophy of Swiss Life Asset Managers, which is governed by such principles as value preservation, the generation of consistent and sustainable performance and a responsible approach to risks. Swiss Life Asset Managers offers this proven approach to third-party clients in Switzerland, France, Germany, Luxembourg and the UK.

As at 31 December 2018 assets under management for third-party clients amount to EUR 206.7 billion. Together with insurance mandates for the Swiss Life Group, total assets under management at Swiss Life Asset Managers stood at EUR 206.7 billion.

Swiss Life Asset Managers is the leading real estate manager in Europe*1. Of the assets totaling EUR 206.7 billion, EUR 55.7 billion is invested in real estate. In addition, Swiss Life Asset Managers has real estate under administration of EUR 25.3 billion through its subsidiaries Livit and Corpus Sireo. Total real estate under management and administration at the end of December 2018 thus came to EUR 81.0 billion.

Swiss Life Asset Managers employs about 1800 people in Europe.

¹ PropertyEU, Top 100 Investors, October 2015, 2016 and 2017