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2013 Annual Report

A world of opportunity

Investing for the long run™

Income generation for generations of investors

Our strategy to build long-term shareholder value and provide 
our investors with rising income has not wavered during our 
40+ year history. We strive to accomplish these goals by:

•  structuring investments with contractual rental increases

•  growing our managed portfolio

•  making accretive asset acquisitions for our owned portfolio

•  maintaining our disciplined investment approach

W. P. Carey Inc. is a global net lease REIT that provides long-term sale-leaseback and build-to-suit financing solutions  
for companies worldwide and acts as manager to a series of income-oriented non-traded REITs.

Our investments worldwide

United States  
504 properties

France  
82 properties

Germany  
69 properties 

Poland  
18 properties

Finland  
10 properties

Netherlands  
9 properties

United Kingdom 
6 properties

Canada  
3 properties

Hungary  
2 properties

Thailand  
2 properties

Belgium  
1 property

Japan  
1 investment

Malaysia  
1 property

Mexico  
1 property

Spain  
1 property 

Sweden  
1 property

This Annual Report includes statements that are forward-looking within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. We cannot guarantee that any forward-
looking statement will be accurate. Investors should consider the risk factors identified in our periodic reports filed with the SEC when evaluating our forward-looking statements. 

Dear Fellow Investors

2013 was a year of many opportunities for W. P. Carey:  
we continued to expand and diversify our owned and managed 
portfolios globally, applied our underwriting expertise to a 
broader scope of investments in an increasingly competitive 
environment, closed on record investment volume, sold our 
self-storage fund, and achieved our dual goals of providing 
investors with consistent income and long-term value.

As a result, we had another strong year, during which we:

•  Closed on record investment volume of $1.8 billion, 

including $350 million on our own balance sheet and  
$1.4 billion on behalf of our managed REITs.

•  Increased Adjusted Funds from Operations (AFFO) for 
2013 to $4.22 per share, up 12% over the prior year.*

•  Raised our annualized dividend rate to $3.48 during the 
fourth quarter of 2013—our 51st consecutive quarterly 
increase and a 31.8% increase over the fourth quarter of 2012.

•  Generated a total shareholder return for 2013 of 

approximately 23%.

*Please refer to page 15 for additional information on AFFO. 

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Our core skills in financial analysis and credit 
assessment enable us to identify corporate credits 
that we expect will improve over time, thus 
improving the overall quality of our portfolios. 
We believe that our ability to seek out and execute 
such “out of the box” opportunities is a core 
competency and key driver of our long-term 
success, as well as a point of differentiation.

$3.58  
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W. P. Carey’s Annualized Dividends

$1.65  
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$1.73  
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$1.98  
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2014*

Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.

*3/20/14

Despite increasing competition in the net lease space and 
uncertainty over the pace and impact of rising interest rates, 
our global coverage and expertise continue to enable us to 
access a deeper, broader pool of attractive opportunities that 
may not fit into the box for other net lease buyers. While these 
investments require more work to underwrite and negotiate, 
they allow us to diversify risk—notwithstanding a competitive 
U.S. climate. In addition, our core skills in financial analysis 
and credit assessment enable us to identify corporate credits 
that we expect will improve over time, thus improving the 
overall quality of our portfolios. We believe that our ability to 
seek out and execute such “out of the box” opportunities is a 
core competency and key driver of our long-term success, as 
well as a point of differentiation.

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Our Investment Management platform continues 
to be a unique and valuable component of our 
business model that has proved to be a steady 
source of fundraising even during periods of 
turmoil in more traditional markets.

With more than 15 years of investing experience in European 
markets, we continue to prove ourselves nimble, competitive 
and able to provide funding for corporations, developers and 
owners of institutional quality corporate assets—at a time 
when more traditional European lenders and investors have 
been trimming their balance sheets. Approximately half of our 
2013 investments were located in Europe.

Included among our 2013 highlights was the opportunistic  
sale of our institutional self-storage fund, of which  
W. P. Carey’s ownership interest was 38.3%. In addition to 
providing an attractive return, its sale to one of the big-four 
storage REITs underscored the success of our strategy, as 
well as our continued ability to enhance revenues from our 
Investment Management platform beyond the net lease space.

stockholders and position the company for enhanced access to 
capital markets. Specifically, we completed a merger with one 
of our managed REITs, CPA®:16 – Global, successfully executed 
our inaugural public debt offering, increased the capacity of our 
unsecured line of credit, and obtained investment grade ratings 
from both Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s. 

While the merger with CPA®:16 – Global had the positive 
effect of increasing our market capitalization to $5.9 billion 
and our enterprise value to $9.6 billion, we don’t believe that 
scale alone will enhance stockholder value unless it leads to 
sustained AFFO per share growth. This focus has led us to the 
types of investments that we believe will continue to support 
AFFO growth through:

•  Diversification—by property type, industry and geography 

During the first quarter of 2014, we completed a number of 
strategic steps designed to deliver long-term growth for our 

•  Use of conservative leverage

•  Contractual rental increases embedded into our leases

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Contractual rent increases include both fixed and Consumer 
Price Index-tied bumps that help us maintain a consistent 
income stream even during times of rising inflation or economic 
downturns. We are able to structure our leases in this way 
because we partner with tenants that we believe will continue to 
operate in our buildings 10 and 20 years down the road. Thus, we 
are investing in their future, as well as ours. This combination has 
produced a portfolio of assets that both we and the investment 
community view as comparable with investment grade. 

Our Investment Management platform continues to be a  
unique and valuable component of our business model that  
has proved to be a steady source of fundraising even during 
periods of turmoil in more traditional markets. During 2013,  
we commenced fundraising for CPA®:18 – Global, which intends 
to raise up to $1 billion of equity, and we recently launched a 
secondary offering of up to $350 million for our lodging REIT, 
Carey Watermark Investors. Our challenge is to balance the 
capital we raise with attractive investment opportunities, and we 
believe that our ability to cast a wide net within the framework 
of our established investment criteria allows us to do just that.

In conclusion, given our increased scale and access to multiple 
capital sources, the ongoing value provided through our 
Investment Management platform, and the hard work and 
entrepreneurial spirit of our employees, we believe that we 
are better positioned to capitalize on a wider range of global 
opportunities than others in the net lease sector.

Combining our established capabilities with the strategies 
implemented over the last year, we look forward to continuing 
to increase AFFO and dividends, growing total assets owned 
and under management, and creating long-term value for 
our stockholders as we source and secure the “World of 
Opportunity” we believe to be uniquely available to us. 

With best wishes,

Trevor P. Bond
President and Chief Executive Officer

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A world of opportunity
Pioneering, entrepreneurial, opportunistic.  Disciplined, prudent, consistent.

W. P. Carey is a combination of these attributes, which, together 
with 40 years of investing for the long term, enables us to 
evaluate the world of opportunity before us.

For each pioneering, entrepreneurial, opportunistic endeavor 
we have embarked upon, we have balanced the risk with a 
disciplined, prudent investment approach. This combination 
has enabled us to provide our investors with consistently 
rising dividends and long-term value. 

We made our first 
investment in France in 1998, 
bringing sale-leaseback 
financing to Europe.

Wm. Polk Carey pioneered the 
concept of offering individual 
investors seeking steady income 
and capital preservation the 
ability to invest in portfolios of 
diversified net lease real estate. 

We learned early on the value of rent 
escalators in our leases, and subsequent 
to our first investment program—
CPA®:1—we have endeavored to 
embed these clauses into our leases  
in order to protect ourselves in times 
of rising interest rates and inflation. 

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Soon after our first European investment, 
we opened our London office in 1999, our 
Amsterdam asset management office in 2008 
and our Shanghai office in 2010 and hired 
local talent so that we truly could understand 
the nuances of each market.

In 2004, we entered the 
self-storage space with 
the purchase of 78 U-Haul 
facilities. Together with our 
managed REITs, we are the 
ninth largest owner of self-
storage properties in the U.S.

We eased our way into the self-
storage sector, first providing 
traditional sale-leaseback financing 
and then evolving the types of 
transactions structured as our 
expertise grew.

In 2010, we launched 
Carey Watermark Investors 
(CWI), our non-traded 
lodging REIT, to take 
advantage of the greatest 
dislocation in the hotel 
industry since the 1930s. 

We had made several hotel 
investments in the years prior to 
2010, developing a relationship with 
our CWI partner, Watermark Capital 
Partners, a company with decades 
of lodging industry investment, 
management and strategic value-
enhancement experience.

At a time of increased competition in the net lease sector, 
our recognition as an international, diversified investor 
has continued to provide us with steady deal flow and 
has broadened the scope of opportunities that meet our 
established investment criteria. We continue to expand this 
global footprint by seeking such opportunities in new markets 
and products and by taking advantage of our access to public  
and private capital. 

We are in a unique position to take on the world of 
opportunity we see today.

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Opportunities executed
Growing our portfolio

In 2013, we sourced, structured and completed transactions that support our strategy of generating income 
and value for our investors. We saw opportunity in a variety of industries and geographic areas and closed 
$1.8 billion in global investments—$350 million for our own portfolio and $1.4 billion for our managed 
non-traded REITs. The following are examples of acquisitions made for W. P. Carey’s owned portfolio.

Tommy Hilfiger 
Location: Venlo, Netherlands
Property Type: Main European Distribution Center
Acquisition Date: April 2013
Space: 473,611 square feet 

Headquartered in Amsterdam, Tommy Hilfiger Europe B.V. 
represents the European business of the Tommy Hilfiger 
Group. In Europe, Tommy Hilfiger sells to more than  
9,000 wholesalers and owns/operates 118 retail stores and  
43 outlet stores. Since 2010, the Tommy Hilfiger Group has 
been owned by PVH Corp. (NYSE: PVH), one of the world’s 
largest apparel companies.

W. P. Carey acquired the main European distribution center of 
the Tommy Hilfiger Group from its current landlord, Aspen 
Real Estate Investments BV. The total acquisition cost for the 

facility was $35.3 million (€27 million). The 473,611 square-
foot facility is subject to an existing net lease with Tommy 
Hilfiger Europe B.V. 

The facility is Tommy Hilfiger’s main logistics center for all 
of Europe. It has received significant investment by Tommy 
Hilfiger for internal fit-out and has both unbuilt land and 
adjacent land available for expansion. The facility is located 
in Venlo, a core logistics hub in the Netherlands. Venlo is an 
established distribution location, with close proximity to the 
German border and the two largest ports in Europe.

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Kraft Foods 
Location: Northfield, Illinois
Property Type: Corporate Headquarters
Acquisition Date: January 2013
Space: 679,109 square feet

Kraft Foods Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: KRFT), North America’s 
fourth largest consumer packaged food and beverage  
company, launched as a public and independent company  
on October 1, 2012. 

W. P. Carey acquired Kraft’s 70-acre corporate headquarters 
campus in Northfield, Illinois for $72 million. The 679,109 
square-foot facility is leased to Kraft on a long-term triple- 
net basis. 

Kraft was able to redeploy illiquid capital tied up in real estate 
into its core business and W. P. Carey secured a high-quality, 
long-term leased asset for its portfolio. 

Cargotec 
Location: Tampere, Finland
Property Type: R&D and Class-A Office Facility 
Acquisition Date: June 2013
Space: 183,568 square feet

Cargotec is a Finnish public company that develops and 
manufactures cargo-handling machinery for ships, ports, 
terminals and local distribution. Cargotec’s products are 
used in every major port around the globe and on half of 
the world’s oceangoing fleet. It operates in 120 countries and 
employs approximately 10,000 personnel globally.

W. P. Carey acquired Cargotec’s research and development 
and Class-A office facility in Tampere, Finland for $52 million 
(€40 million). The 183,568 square-foot facility is leased to 
Cargotec under a 20-year triple-net lease. 

Completed in December 2012, Cargotec’s Technology and 
Competence Center is dedicated to research and development of 
energy-efficient, safe and intelligent machinery and automation 
solutions. The facility is located in an established office and 
industrial region of Tampere, near the Tampere University of 
Technology, the leading technical university in Finland.

2 0 1 3   A n n u a l   R e p o r t 1111

A unique model 
Diverse capabilities and investment platforms

W. P. Carey is a global net lease REIT with a unique model:  
we own a diversified portfolio of income-generating real estate 
assets and we receive management fees from our managed 
non-traded REITs, which, on a pro forma basis, represented 
approximately 17% of our revenues following our merger with 
CPA®:16 – Global on January 31, 2014. Currently, we manage 
CPA®:17 – Global, CPA®:18 – Global and Carey Watermark 
Investors (CWI).

Our investment management business provides us with 
strategic advantages that differentiate us from other REITs: 
access to capital through various market cycles and a stable 
stream of asset management fees. In addition, it affords us 
the opportunity to grow our assets under management, and 
thereby our revenues, to support our stable dividend. We 
continue to explore opportunities to apply our disciplined 
investment approach to new products and geographic areas  
in order to continue growing this aspect of our business. 

CPA®:17 – Global
In 2013, CPA®:17 – Global made investments totaling $517 
million. The 28 properties acquired included the new European 
Innovation Center of Royal FrieslandCampina, an H&M 
distribution center in Poland, and the corporate headquarters  
of Avnet Technology Solutions. As of December 31, 2013, 
CPA®:17 – Global’s $5 billion diversified portfolio consisted  
of 99 tenants in 10 countries and 27 industries.

CPA®:18 – Global
CPA®:18 – Global began fundraising in July 2013 and raised 
$636 million of the $1 billion offering as of March 31, 2014. 
We made three investments on behalf of CPA®:18 – Global 
in 2013: State Farm’s Austin operations center (owned 50% 
by CPA®:18 – Global and 50% by CPA®:17 – Global), three 
industrial facilities leased to Crowne Group and five Agrokor 
retail stores in Croatia (owned 80% by CPA®:18 – Global and 
20% by CPA®:17 – Global). Subsequently, CPA®:18 – Global 
closed six investments in early 2014, including the Siemens AS 
headquarters—Norway’s most energy-efficient office building 
with a LEED Gold (Energy-A) rating.

Carey Watermark Investors
Carey Watermark Investors, or CWI, has allowed us to 
capitalize on our experience in the lodging industry at a time 
that we believe was the bottom of the hotel cycle—when 
we felt advantageously positioned to execute on attractive 
opportunities to generate growth with income for investors. 
In 2013, CWI made investments in 12 properties with a 
total acquisition cost of approximately $745 million. These 
included the Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel, Hawks 
Cay Resort in the Florida Keys, the Hutton Hotel in Nashville 
and a five-property Hilton Worldwide-branded portfolio. We 
also completed a joint venture with Fairmont Hotels & Resorts 
for The Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa.

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Performance of W. P. Carey’s Liquidated  
CPA® Programs
Since the founding of Corporate Property Associates—
CPA®—series of programs in 1979, we’ve sponsored 18 real 
estate investment programs, including CWI. Fifteen CPA® 
programs have gone full cycle, having delivered quarterly 
income and solid long-term total returns to generations of 
investors. This track record has created tremendous value 
and brand loyalty for W. P. Carey with the financial advisors 
who offer our non-traded REIT investments to their clients. 
This directly benefits the stockholders in W. P. Carey Inc. 
through the stable management fees that we earn.

Program  
life 

Total cash distributions  
plus liquidation value  
per $10,000 investment

Average  
annual  
return

CPA®:1 

1979-1998

$23,670

7.17%

CPA®:2

CPA®:3

CPA®:4

CPA®:5

CPA®:6

CPA®:7

CPA®:8

CPA®:9

CIP®

CPA®:12

CPA®:14

CPA®:15

1980-1998

$36,864

14.89%

1982-1998

$40,806

18.81%

1983-1998

$31,007

13.85%

1984-1998

$21,024

7.72%

1985-1998

$26,382

12.47%

1987-1998

$21,504

10.15%

1988-1998

$22,851

13.10%

1989-1998

$18,393

1992-2004

$24,243

11.22%

1994-2006

$23,689

10.91%

1998-2011

$21,719

2002-2012

$20,208

9.59%

8.81%

8.96%

9.58%

7.53%

CPA®:10

1991-2002

$20,833

CPA®:16 – Global  2003-2014

$17,534

Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.

2 0 1 3   A n n u a l   R e p o r t 1313

 
Active management
Think globally, act locally

To us, active asset management means not only 
achieving our investment team’s initial goals, but 
also seeking opportunities to beat them, while 
protecting the downside.

Our asset management approach can be summarized as follows: 
we think globally and act locally. With asset management 
officers based in New York, Amsterdam and Shanghai, we 
bring a global outlook to managing portfolios and the local 
knowledge to build close working relationships with our tenants. 
By analyzing their industries, the local markets in which they 
operate and the ongoing criticality of the properties we lease 
to them, we are prepared to deal effectively with end-of-lease 
decisions, manage the sale or re-tenanting of a property when a 
tenant decides to vacate, or uncover expansion opportunities.

As W. P. Carey has evolved from the manager of a series of 
non-traded REITs to the owner of a diverse global portfolio, 
our asset management team also has evolved. This past 
year, our team’s skills and depth of experience allowed us to 
anticipate opportunities and potential issues in our portfolios 
and to ensure that our facilities remain occupied; that rent is 
paid and transmitted on time; that assets are sold if the right 
opportunity arises; and, if a tenant does encounter financial 
difficulty, that we will continue to receive the rental income 
upon which our investors have come to rely. These capabilities 
have been a key factor in creating ongoing value for our 
stockholders. Here are a few examples of successful asset 
management transactions in 2013:

During 2013, we disposed of  
28 properties with total proceeds  
of $176 million.

W. P. Carey’s portfolio 
occupancy rate is 98%.

Matching opportunities: timing is everything
Recognizing the current strength of the local market and 
the inherent volatility of the airline industry, we locked 
in a favorable sale price for a Class-A asset that has been 
leased to US Airways since we acquired the facility in 1998. 
We redeployed the sale proceeds on a tax-deferred basis, 
acquiring an existing long-term lease with a creditworthy 
tenant, tw telecom. The pricing and value of this investment 
were further enhanced by our ability to meet the seller’s 
liquidity objectives by closing prior to year-end. 

Turning a lease termination into a value- 
add opportunity
In 1981, we acquired a facility leased to Western Union for 
$6 million. Over the course of 30+ years, we stayed close to 
the tenant and worked through a tenant-funded $8 million 
renovation of the property. The tenant decided to terminate 
the lease, at which time we negotiated a termination fee that 
enabled us to recoup our equity investment in the property. 
In March 2013, we secured a new tenant that is investing an 
additional $11.5 million in renovations. 

No matter where a particular asset is located,  
we believe that timely information is the key  
to successful asset management. 

We are a proactive asset manager and capital recycler, completing, on 
average, more than 100 discrete asset management transactions a year.

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Creating value out of opportunity
2013 results

As a result of our merger with CPA®:16 –  
Global and our increased scale and portfolio 
diversification, we believe we are in a good 
position to capitalize on new opportunities  
that support our long-standing tradition of  
stable dividend growth and value creation  
for our investors.

2013 was marked by continued growth of our owned 
portfolio, as well as substantial acquisitions on behalf of 
our managed REITs. Our record total acquisition volume 
of $1.8 billion included significant net lease acquisitions in 
Europe, as well as considerable activity in both self-storage 
properties and hotels, which generated structuring and asset 
management fees. In addition, our activities as a proactive 
asset manager and capital recycler resulted in the disposition 
of 28 properties for a total of $176 million in 2013. 

Tenant Industry Diversification Chart

Automobile
Federal, State and Local Governments
Construction and Building
Grocery Beverages, Food and Tobacco
Business and Commercial Services

Media: Printing and Publishing
Consumer Non-durable Goods

Insurance
Transportation—Personal
Hotels and Gaming Utilities
Chemicals, Plastics, Rubber and Glass
Healthcare, Education and Childcare
Retail Leisure, Amusement, Entertainment

Mining, Metals and Primary Metal Industries

Transportation—Cargo

Consumer Services

Textiles, Leather and Apparel

Buildings and Real Estate

Banking

Aerospace and Defense
Machinery

Forest Products and Paper

Other

Consumer and Durable Goods

Electronics

Telecommunications

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Aerospace and Defense (1.30%)
Automobile (5.05%)
Banking (0.86%)
Beverages, Food and Tobacco (4.20%)
Buildings and Real Estate (3.19%)
Business and Commercial Services (5.23%)
Chemicals, Plastics, Rubber and Glass (6.09%)
Construction and Building (4.56%)
Consumer and Durable Goods (0.95%)
Consumer Non-durable Goods (2.45%)
Consumer Services (0.39%)
Electronics (9.79%)
Federal, State and Local Governments (2.41%)
Forest Products and Paper (0.53%)
Grocery (2.17%)
Healthcare, Education and Childcare (5.16%)
Hotels and Gaming (3.46%)
Insurance (1.98%)
Leisure, Amusement, Entertainment (3.16%)
Machinery (3.14%)
Media: Printing and Publishing (2.03%)
Mining, Metals and Primary Metal Industries (1.19%)
Retail (21.89%)
Telecommunications (2.98%)
Textiles, Leather and Apparel (0.93%)
Transportation—Cargo (2.99%)
Transportation—Personal (1.75%)
Utilities (0.15%)
Other (0.02%)

Pro rata as of December 31, 2013

As a result of these activities, we generated $4.22 of AFFO 
per share for the year, raised our annual dividend rate to 
$3.48 per share and generated a total shareholder return of 
approximately 23% during 2013.* 

With the completion of our merger with CPA®:16 – Global 
in January 2014 and the receipt of investment grade credit 
ratings from Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s, we believe we 
are well-positioned for continued growth as a global net lease 

REIT. Our 40+ years of experience, evolving capabilities and 
access to multiple sources of capital support our strategy of 
building our owned portfolio of net lease assets. At the same 
time, we will continue to benefit from the income generated 
by our managed portfolios and the additional value created 
by actively managing and building an increasingly diversified 
global portfolio while adhering to the disciplined investment 
process we have cultivated over more than four decades. 

* This Annual Report contains references to AFFO, a non-GAAP financial measure. AFFO represents funds from operations, or FFO, as defined by the National Association of Real 
Estate Investment Trusts, adjusted to include the impact of certain non-cash charges to net income. We believe that this non-GAAP financial measure is a useful supplemental 
measure that will help investors to better understand the underlying performance of our business segments. This non-GAAP financial measure does not represent net income or 
cash flow from operating activities as computed in accordance with GAAP and should not be considered an alternative to net income or cash flow from operating activities as an 
indicator of our financial performance. AFFO as computed by us may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies. Please reference the Form 8-K that we filed 
with the SEC on March 3, 2014, which is available on our website at www.wpcarey.com and at www.sec.gov, for a reconciliation of this non-GAAP financial measure to the most 
directly comparable GAAP financial measure in our Consolidated Financial Statements. GAAP refers to accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. 

Cumulative Five-Year Total Return, 2008-2013
$10,000 invested in W. P. Carey common stock on December 31, 2008, with dividends reinvested, would have appreciated in five years to $35,891— 
a 29% average annual return, compared with 18% for the S&P 500 Index and 17% for the FTSE NAREIT Equity REITs Index.

W. P. CAREY

S&P 500 Index

FTSE NAREIT 
Equity REITs 
Index 

12/31/08

12/31/09

12/31/10

12/31/11

12/31/12

12/31/13

Sources: Bloomberg for W. P. Carey returns; S&P website for S&P 500 Index returns; and SNL Financial website for FTSE NAREIT Equity REITs Index returns

Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.

2 0 1 3   A n n u a l   R e p o r t 17

$10,000$15,000$20,000$25,000$30,000$35,000Carey Forward
Our opportunity to give back

Our founder, Wm. Polk Carey, believed deeply in giving back 
and investing in the community around us. One of his favorite 
mottos, Doing Good While Doing Well, has become the core 
of our Carey Forward initiative. Founded in 2013, Carey 
Forward empowers employees to take time during the year to 
volunteer outside the office and bring to our community the 
same qualities they bring to their professional work: excellence, 
commitment and, of course, Doing Good While Doing Well. 
Interacting directly with those we are helping creates a strong 
sense of commitment and relationship between our company 
and our community, allowing us to move forward together. 

The philanthropic groups we have partnered with this 
past year vary in breadth and in mission, but all maintain 
overarching ambitions aimed to enhance our community 
through education, arts and restoration. For 2013, we 
identified three programs to support: City Harvest, Habitat  
for Humanity and the Emily N. Carey Harbor Preschool. 

Here are a few of the volunteer opportunities we embarked 
upon over the course of the year:

“Volunteering with the Carey 
Forward initiative gives me 
a chance to support my local 
community and give back.” 

Daniel Kosydar, Strategic Planning

City Harvest – Staten Island Mobile Market 
City Harvest has been providing nutritious food to underserved 
areas in these farmers’ market-style settings since 2005.  
W. P. Carey volunteers helped distribute produce to eligible 
market goers. 

Habitat for Humanity – Jimmy & Rosalyn Carter Work Project 
This project is Habitat for Humanity’s premier international 
building project. Our volunteers helped to rebuild an 
abandoned home in Queens. 

Emily N. Carey Harbor Preschool – Volunteer Day 
Boys & Girls Harbor, located in New York City’s Harlem, is 
an education-focused organization committed to providing 
its students with comprehensive academic training and 
emotional development, enriched by infusing the arts into its 
culture and curriculum. We spent a day doing arts and crafts 
with the students.

We are excited to have expanded our work as good corporate 
citizens by supporting these fine organizations through the 
Carey Forward initiative and are proud to report that, in the 
program’s inaugural year, approximately 50% of W. P. Carey’s 
New York-based employees participated. As we continue 
to expand Carey Forward in the coming years, we hope to 
achieve 100% participation. 

“I volunteer because my one 
day of helping someone 
can turn into a lifetime  
of change for him or her.”

Richard Klee, Treasury

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