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2015 Annual Report

Investing for the long run™

Capitalizing on Our Core Competencies                     

Credit  
analysis  

Real estate  
underwriting

W. P. Carey Inc.
(NYSE: WPC)

Structuring  
expertise

Investment  
discipline

Dear Fellow Investors

During 2015, we continued to grow our business while simultaneously exploring 
additional opportunities to enhance shareholder value. This growth is reflected  
in the AFFO per diluted share we generated of $4.99 and the dividends we  
declared of $3.83 per share, which increased 3.7% and 3.8%, respectively, from  
the prior year. 

In what continued to be a competitive market for high-quality net leased assets,  
we benefited from the significant diversity offered by our business model—  
in terms of our capital sources, revenue streams, ability to invest both in the 
United States and abroad—as well as the diversity within our real estate portfolios. 
Diversification is a fundamental component of our cycle-tested strategy that has 
helped protect shareholder value during industry-specific downturns and periods 
of broader market turbulence or dislocation, enabling us to generate value for 
our shareholders through both good times and bad. Despite the pressure on our 
share price in 2015 and on the public REIT sector generally, we take pride in having 
generated a total return of 827% for our shareholders since our public listing in 
1998 through the end of 2015. 

Adhering to our risk management–driven investment strategy, focusing on tenant 
creditworthiness, and the acquisition of critical assets, we made investments for 
our owned real estate portfolio totaling $689 million in 2015. The majority were in 
Europe, given the favorable market conditions for net lease investments; and with a 
weighted-average initial cap rate of approximately 7%, we believe they will provide 
healthy long-term investment returns.

There is a common misperception that net leased real estate requires very little 
management. In actuality, we actively manage all of our assets by continually 
reviewing each tenant’s creditworthiness, the operational criticality of each property, 
and the overall quality of the real estate itself. We also ensure that tenants properly 
maintain each asset, and we assess the potential impact of tenant-specific or 
industry-wide headwinds. Furthermore, our teams in New York and Amsterdam 
monitor individual markets for attractive disposition opportunities, seeking to 
reinvest proceeds in ways that enhance the portfolio’s overall quality and extend  
its weighted-average lease term. 

As a result of these activities, at year-end our owned real estate portfolio comprised 
869 properties and covered 90 million square feet net leased to 222 tenants, with 
an occupancy rate of 98.8% and a weighted-average lease term of 9 years. We will 
continue to actively manage the portfolio, and when we feel our cost of capital is 
appropriately priced, we will seek to access the capital markets to acquire specific 
assets or portfolios of assets that meet our underwriting criteria. 

Our properties in the United States generated 64% of annualized base rent and 
34% came from our properties in Europe. With 95% of annualized base rent 
coming from leases containing built-in rent escalations, we expect rental revenue  
to continue to grow and keep pace with inflation. 

$3.2B 

  of investments in 2015  
acquired for our owned 
portfolio and on behalf  
of the Managed REITs.

Our mission has always  
been to provide superior  
risk-adjusted returns  
that create sustainable  
long-term value.

2015 Annual Report | 1

Our goal is to maintain a strong and flexible balance sheet with sufficient access to 
capital to fund long-term growth opportunities. In this regard we had an eventful 
start to the year, taking several important steps that reduced our nonrecourse debt 
and moved us closer to becoming a primarily unsecured borrower. Specifically, 
we expanded the capacity of our credit facility revolver to $1.5 billion, accessed 
the European public debt market with an inaugural €500-million bond issue, and 
completed a $450-million domestic bond offering. We also created the flexibility 
to raise small amounts of equity capital efficiently, should the future need arise, by 
establishing a $400-million at-the-market program. 

The consistent fee income generated by our investment management business 
provides an additional source of cash flow for our shareholders. Equally important, 
this business provides a valuable alternative source of capital for financing new 
acquisitions when traditional public markets are experiencing periods of volatility or 
pricing pressure. It also allows us to grow revenues by capitalizing on new market 
sectors and products that build on our established skills and investment philosophy. 

In 2015, we raised approximately $350 million on behalf of our Managed Programs, 
in addition to $135 million of reinvestment proceeds, net of redemptions. We also 
structured new real estate investments totaling $2.5 billion for our Managed REIT’s 
bringing our assets under management at year-end to $11 billion, an increase of 
20% over the prior year. 

The launch of Carey Watermark Investors 2 in May 2015 builds on our successful 
track record for raising capital and investing in the lodging industry. We also 
launched Carey Credit Income Fund, our inaugural non-traded business development 
company, which commenced capital raising in July 2015 through two feeder funds: 
Carey Credit Income Fund – I and Carey Credit Income Fund 2016 T. In partnership 
with experienced fixed income investor Guggenheim Partners, the funds capitalize 
on our history of providing capital to growing companies and our more than 40-year 
track record of corporate credit underwriting. 

We plan to further grow and diversify our investment management business by 
evaluating opportunities that provide differentiated alternative programs that seek to 
capture superior risk-adjusted returns by deploying disciplined capital into inefficient 
markets. Our ability to anticipate and adapt to regulatory changes is an important 
differentiator and one that allowed us to pioneer the offering of trailing-fee shares 
for non-traded investments, initially in CPA®:18 – Global and again with Carey 
Watermark Investors 2 and Carey Credit Income Fund 2016 T. 

Looking ahead, we anticipate that net lease in the United States will remain 
competitive in 2016. However, we are seeing increased emphasis on certainty of 
execution rather than simply price. We view this as a function of several factors: 
weakness in the commercial mortgage-backed-securities market; reduced capital 
flows into the market from established investors; and uncertainty in financial 
markets in general. Europe remains at a different point in the cycle. The cost of 
capital continues to compress as US investors become increasingly more comfortable 
with investing in the region, thereby creating capital inflows. Given the lower cost of 
debt in Europe, attractive investments with significant spreads are still available.

W. P. Carey’s Total Return Since 
Going Public in 1998

   827% 


   385% 


   194%  


WPC

MSCI US
 REIT Index

S&P 
500

Total return from January 21, 1998 
to December 31, 2015

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While we continuously look at strategic alternatives to enhance value, our mission 
has always been to provide superior risk-adjusted returns and create sustainable 
long-term value for our shareholders. During our 43-year history, we have carried 
out this mission by implementing initiatives ranging from the public listing of our 
first nine funds in 1998 to the internalization of our manager in 2000 and our REIT 
conversion in 2012. We will continue to evaluate opportunities that build on the 
value of our core corporate credit and real estate analytical strengths, all the while 
reviewing our structure, new product opportunities, liquidation alternatives for 
our managed funds, and new markets, from both investment and capital-raising 
standpoints. 

In closing, I wish to thank our Board of Directors for its guidance and support during 
the year and to express appreciation for the time, effort, and depth of expertise the 
directors consistently provide. In addition, I thank our shareholders and bondholders, 
and the investors in our Managed Programs for their trust. 

Having joined W. P. Carey as a senior executive in 2005, subsequently serving as CFO 
and then joining the Board in 2012, I had the privilege to know and work with Bill 
Carey, whose leadership and thoughtful approach shape the platform on which we 
have continued to grow our business to this day. Benefiting from Bill’s legacy and the 
organization he founded and grew so successfully, I look forward to my first year as 
CEO, working closely with the senior management team and aided by the support 
of all of our dedicated employees who work diligently every day to, as Bill constantly 
reminded us all, earn the continued trust of all our stakeholders.

By drawing on our diverse 
global financial and real 
estate expertise, we have 
been able to generate value 
for our shareholders through 
both good times and bad.

Mark J. DeCesaris 
Chief Executive Officer

W. P. Carey’s Annualized Dividends

$1.65  


$1.73 


$3.90*


$2.44 
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$1.96 


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Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. 

As declared on March 21, 2016.

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Diversified Net Lease Real Estate

Portfolio Overview

 During 2015, we 
continued to adhere  
to our cycle-tested 
investment strategy, 
focusing on diversification, 
tenant creditworthiness 
and the acquisition of 
critical assets.

The Benefits of Diversity 

Our ability to generate strong performance over four decades and through 
numerous market cycles not only demonstrates our established credit and  
real estate underwriting expertise but also underscores the benefits of the  
diversity inherent in our business through the composition of our real estate 
portfolio, our revenue streams and our capital sources.

94.9%

of annualized base  
rent from leases with  
built-in increases

869 

net lease properties 

$692.6

   million of annualized base rent

98.8%

occupancy

90.1 

million square feet

Diversified Net Lease Real Estate

A Proven Process

Our disciplined underwriting process has supported our strategy of generating income and value 
for investors for more than 40 years and throughout a variety of market cycles. Throughout these 
cycles, we have been a constant source of capital for owners of critical corporate properties, 
supporting their operations and growth strategies.

We evaluate each potential investment based on four key criteria:

Creditworthiness  
of the tenant

Criticality of the  
asset to the  
tenant’s business

Fundamental  
value of the  
real estate

Transaction  
structure  
and pricing

  Industry drivers and trends  
  Competitor analysis 
  Company history 
  Historical financials

  Corporate headquarters
   Key distribution facility or  

profitable manufacturing plant

   Critical R&D or data center
   Top-performing retail locations

  Local market analysis
  Property condition
   Third-party valuation/ 

replacement cost

   Downside analysis/cost  

to re-lease

  Price and length of lease
   Inclusion of built-in rent  

escalations

  Financial covenants
   Security deposits/letters of credit

Portfolio Strategy 

•  Focus on acquiring strategically 

important real estate, long-term net 
leased to creditworthy companies 
with built-in rent growth

•  Build and manage our portfolio in 
a consistent, methodical manner 
to provide increasing cash flow, 
long-term value and attractive risk-
adjusted returns to our investors 

•  Maximize the value of existing 
assets through expansion to  
meet tenants’ growth needs  
and repositioning of assets in 
evolving markets

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94.9% of our rental revenue  
has built-in increases

Asset Management/ 
Recycling Capital 

2.2%
2.9%

26.5%

28.1%

40.3%

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Uncapped CPI (40.3%)
CPI-based (28.1%)
Fixed (26.5%)
Other (2.9%)
None (2.2%)

The vast majority of our long-term 
leases are triple net, with tenants 
responsible for maintenance,  
taxes and insurance. Our asset 
management teams in New York 
and Amsterdam regularly review 
tenant creditworthiness, asset quality  
and operational criticality to ensure 
these obligations are met and rent 
is paid on time. They also evaluate 
tenants’ long-term real estate needs, 
implement early lease renewals, or, if 
necessary, find replacement tenants.

The teams also assess individual 
markets for attractive disposition 
opportunities, seeking to reinvest 
proceeds, extend average lease term 
and improve the real estate and  
credit quality of our portfolio.

 
Diversification – A Core Strength

Geographic*

Property Type*

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30.0%

24.6%

17.3%

15.7%
4.6%
7.8%

Poland (2.4%)
The Netherlands (2.0%)
Australia (1.4%)
Other1 (3.2%)

Office (30.0%)
Industrial (24.6%)
Warehouse (17.3%)
Retail (15.7%)
Self-Storage (4.6%)
Other2 (7.8%)

36%

64%

United States (64%)

International  36%
Germany (8.5%)
France (6.0%)
United Kingdom (5.8%)
Spain (3.9%)
Finland (2.8%)

1

Other includes assets in Norway, Austria, Hungary, Sweden, 
Belgium, Canada, Mexico, Thailand, Malaysia, and Japan.

2

Other includes ABR from tenants within the 
following property types: learning center, hotel, 
theater, sports facility, and residential.

In a competitive market for high-
quality net leased assets, we continue 
to benefit from the significant 
diversity of our business model— 
in the composition of our real estate 
portfolio, our ability to invest both 
in the US and abroad and in our 
capital sources. This diversity is a 
fundamental component of our  
cycle-tested strategy, which has 
helped protect shareholder value 
during industry-specific downturns, 
as well as broader market turbulence 
from global political and economic 
crises and events.

Tenant Industry*

Retail Stores (20.2%)3
Consumer Services (8.5%)
High-Tech Industries (6.7%)
Automotive (5.6%)
Sovereign and Public Finance (5.6%)
Beverage, Food, and Tobacco (4.9%)
Hotel, Gaming, and Leisure (4.9%)
Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals (4.5%)
Cargo Transportation (4.5%)

*Based on ABR; pro rata as of December 31, 2015.

Media: Advertising, Printing, and Publishing (4.3%)
Capital Equipment (3.8%)
Containers, Packaging, and Glass (3.8%)
Construction and Building (2.9%)
Business Services (2.6%)
Telecommunications (2.4%)
Wholesale (2.1%)
Durable Consumer Goods (1.6%)
Aerospace and Defense (1.5%)

Grocery (1.5%)
Chemicals, Plastics and Rubber (1.4%)
Metals and Mining (1.4%)
Nondurable Consumer Goods (1.1%)
Oil and Gas (1.1%)
Banking (1.0%)
Other4 (2.1%)

3

4

Includes automotive dealerships 

Other includes ABR from tenants in the following 
industries: insurance; electricity; media: broadcasting 
and subscription; forest products and paper; 
environmental industries; and consumer transportation. 
Also includes square footage for vacant properties.

2015 Annual Report | 7

 
Diversified Net Lease Real Estate

2015 Investment Activity

•  Nine acquisitions totaling $689 million and the completion of one build-to-suit  

for our owned portfolio 

•  Hotel, industrial, office, retail and warehouse assets located in the United States, 

the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Austria, Germany and Sweden

•  Weighted-average initial cap rate of approximately 7% 

•  Additive to weighted-average lease term

•  Majority of acquisitions were in Europe, given the region’s favorable market 

conditions for net lease

•  Dispositions of approximately $38 million as part of our capital recycling program 

Featured 2015 Investments

Pendragon

Closing Date: January 2015 
Purchase Price: $351.1 million 
Facility Type: Auto Dealership Portfolio 
Location: United Kingdom 
Size: 1.5 million square feet; 73 assets 
Lease Term: 15 years (weighted average)

Hornbach Baumarkt

Closing Date: April 2015 
Purchase Price: $25 million 
Facility Type: Retail 
Location: Austria 
Size: 137,000 square feet 
Lease Term: 15 years

Pendragon is the United 
Kingdom’s largest automotive 
retailer, offering a diverse range 
of automotive brands, new 
and used vehicles, and after-
sales services. The 73-property 
portfolio represents almost 
one-third of its UK dealership 
footprint across key locations, 
which, in combination with 
the inflation-indexed long-term 
triple-net leases, meets our 
investment criteria.

Europe’s fifth-largest DIY retailer, 
Hornbach is an established 
tenant with an excellent track 
record of growth and profitability. 
The well-located facility on a 
long-term inflation-indexed net 
lease provides an acquisition 
opportunity consistent with our  
established criteria and represents  
our first transaction in Austria,  
further advancing our 
diversification strategy.

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Scania

Closing Date: June 2015 
Purchase Price: $26.4 million 
Facility Type: Industrial 
Location: Sweden 
Size: 358,000 square feet 
Lease Term: 15 years

Scania is among the world’s leading 
manufacturers of commercial 
vehicles and one of southern 
Sweden’s largest employers.  
A critical logistics facility, supporting 
one of its main manufacturing 
plants, the strategically located 
Class-A asset provides another 
high-quality Nordic asset positioned  
to deliver current income and  
add long-term value to our  
owned portfolio.

Banco Santander

Completion Date: September 2015 
Construction Cost: $51 million  
Facility Type: Office 
Location: Germany 
Size: 212,000 square feet 
Lease Term: 20 years

The completion of this build-to-suit  
Class-A office building consolidates 
several office locations and 
supports the recent growth in  
Banco Santander’s German 
footprint. The inflation-indexed 
long-term triple net lease with one 
of Eurozone’s largest banks for 
a key facility provides a strategic 
addition to our owned portfolio.

Courtyard by Marriott  

Closing Date: October 2015 
Purchase Price: $52 million 
Facility Type: Hotel 
Location: United States – IA, LA, MO,  

NC, NJ, TX 

Size: 447,000 square feet 
Lease Term: 11 years

The acquisition of a net leased  
portfolio of six established US 
properties with substantial rent 
coverage, at an attractive basis, offers 
compelling risk-adjusted returns. With 
steady, predictable cash flows and 
built-in rent escalations, coupled with 
the strength of Marriott’s brand and 
credit, the acquisition provides an 
ideal addition to our owned portfolio.

2015 Annual Report | 9

 
Investment Management

Our Strategy

 Provide differentiated 
alternative investment 
programs that seek  
to capture superior  
risk-adjusted returns  
by deploying  
disciplined capital into 
inefficient markets.

A Scalable Business Model 

Our investment management platform has important strategic advantages,  
enabling us to access investor capital through a retail channel separate from the 
listed markets. Initially a source for funding our net lease investing activity, as a 
scalable model it has allowed us to grow our investment management business, 
leveraging our credit and real estate underwriting expertise to introduce additional 
product verticals that meet the long-term investing needs of individual investors.

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Net Lease 
Real Estate

Leveraging  
Our Established  
Capabilities

Lodging

Corporate  
Credit

2015 Annual Report | 11

Investment Management

Managed Programs

Wm. Polk Carey established the 
company in 1973 with a vision of 
providing quality companies with 
capital to run their businesses and 
to provide investors with solid, 
income-oriented products that could 
appreciate over the long run, through 
good times and bad.  

Since then, we’ve raised 17 Corporate 
Property Associates (CPA®) programs, 
15 of which have completed their full 
investment cycles, delivering stable 
dividend income to generations of 
investors. We also introduced our 
initial and second lodging funds, 
Carey Watermark Investors 1 and 
Carey Watermark Investors 2.

As a result, W. P. Carey has developed 
strong brand value and loyalty among 
investors and financial advisors, which 
in turn have supported our expansion 
into new product verticals that 
leverage our corporate credit and  
real estate underwriting expertise.

Prior Programs

CPA®:1 

CPA®:2

CPA®:3

CPA®:4

CPA®:5

CPA®:6

CPA®:7

CPA®:8

CPA®:9

CPA®:10

CIP®

CPA®:12

CPA®:14

CPA®:15

Program life 

1979-1998

1980-1998

1982-1998

1983-1998

1984-1998

1985-1998

1987-1998

1988-1998

1989-1998

1991-2002

1992-2004

1994-2006

1998-2011

2002-2012

CPA®:16 – Global 

2003-2014

Total cash distributions  
plus liquidation value per  
$10,000 investment1

Average annual return1

$23,670

$36,864

$40,806

$31,007

$21,024

$26,382

$21,504

$22,851

$18,393

$20,833

$24,243

$23,689

$21,719

$20,208

$17,534

7.17%

14.89%

18.81%

13.85%

7.72%

12.47%

10.15%

13.10%

9.59%

8.81%

11.22%

10.91%

8.96%

9.58%

7.53%

Building on Our Core Competencies and a Strong Brand 

We plan to further grow and diversify our investment  
management business by continuing to expand our product 
offerings. The launch of Carey Watermark Investors 2 in May 
2015 builds on our successful track record for raising capital and 
investing in the lodging industry. Our corporate credit underwriting 
strengths and expertise became the foundation for a stand-alone 
product offering when Carey Credit Income Fund, our inaugural 
non-traded business development company, commenced capital 
raising in July 2015 through two feeder funds: Carey Credit 
Income Fund – 1 and Carey Credit Income Fund 2016 T.

1  Past performance is not a guarantee of future results
2  Carey Credit Income Fund - I was declared effective by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 
on July 31, 2015. Carey Credit Income Fund 2016 T was declared effective by the SEC on July 24, 2015.
3  With the exception of CCIF, assets under management (AUM) represents estimated fair value of the real 
estate assets based in part upon third-party appraisals plus cash and cash equivalents less distributions 
payable. For CCIF, AUM represents fair value of the investment assets plus cash and cash equivalents.

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CPA®:17 – Global
Net Lease Real Estate

COMMENCED: 2007 
OFFERING STATUS: Closed 
AUM3: $5.8 billion

CPA®:18 – Global
Net Lease Real Estate

COMMENCED: 2013 
OFFERING STATUS: Closed  
AUM3: $2.1 billion

 
Forward-looking Practices

Anticipate and respond to regulatory changes governing 
managed investment programs

W. P. Carey has been a pioneer in proactively addressing an evolving regulatory 
environment and developing solutions that meet the needs of our investors.  
We believe our ability to adapt to changing regulations and trends has been a  
critical factor in our success as an investment manager over the past 40+ years.

•  1986 Tax Reform Act  W. P. Carey became an early adopter of the non-traded 

REIT structure by embracing and implementing the format for its CPA® programs  
to address the implications of the 1986 Tax Reform Act on individual investors in  
limited partnerships.

•  Independent NAVs  As part of our commitment to providing transparency for 
investors, W. P. Carey implemented net asset values (NAVs) in the early 1990s  
and thereby became a forerunner in utilizing the practice long before Financial 
Industry Regulatory Authority Regulatory Notice 15-02 legislation required it as a 
standard in the industry as of April 11, 2016.  

•  Low-front-end commissions  Recognizing a trend toward a greater need  
and demand for non-traded investment vehicle structures that address the  
issue of high up-front fees, W. P. Carey led the industry in the adoption and 
establishment of a structure of this kind when it introduced CPA®:18 – Global’s 
Class C share in 2013. 

CWI 1
Lodging

CWI 2
Lodging

COMMENCED: 2010 
OFFERING STATUS: Closed 
AUM3: $2.7 billion

COMMENCED: 2014 
OFFERING STATUS: Open 
AUM3: $442 million

CCIF2 
Corporate Credit

COMMENCED: 2014 
OFFERING STATUS: Open 
AUM3: $88 million

Investment Management

Building on Our History

Leveraging Our Core Capabilities

Our real estate underwriting expertise allows us to determine the fundamental  
value and criticality of real estate assets. Our corporate credit underwriting expertise  
allows us to analyze and determine tenant creditworthiness. W. P. Carey has 
leveraged these capabilities and partnered with established experts to develop and 
launch new programs designed to expand our alternative investment offerings.  

Lodging

1986 W. P. Carey’s experience 
with lodging starts with an 
investment in a portfolio of 
Holiday Inn hotels in CPA®:5

Net Lease Real Estate

1973 W. P. Carey is founded and 
pioneers the concept of offering  
retail investors access to securitized 
pools of net leased assets

1979 W. P. Carey introduces the  
CPA® series of investment programs

1990 W. P. Carey launches its  
first non-traded REIT: CPA®:10

2009 The W. P. Carey Group makes headlines by providing 
$225 million of sale-leaseback financing for the New York Times 
Company through the acquisition of approximately 750,000 
rentable square feet of its New York headquarters building

2013 W. P. Carey celebrates its 40th anniversary and launches 
CPA®:18 – Global

2015 CPA®:18 – Global completes capital raising with gross 
offering proceeds totaling $1.2 billion

Net Lease Real Estate

1973 W. P. Carey founds and pioneers the concept of offering 
retail investors access to securitized pools of net leased assets

1979 CPA® series of investment programs begins

1990 W. P. Carey launches its first non-traded REIT: CPA®:10

1993 W. P. Carey Group assets under management surpass  
$1 billion

1998 CPA®:1–9 consolidate into Carey Diversified LLC,  
which begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange

2003 W. P. Carey launches CPA®:16 – Global, its first 
investment program with a stated objective of investing  
in both US and European net lease properties

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Corporate Credit

2014 Carey Credit Income Fund (CCIF),  
managed by affiliates of W. P. Carey and  
Guggenheim Partners, forms to capitalize on  
our core competency of credit underwriting

2007 W. P. Carey completes first  
net lease hotel investment with 
Watermark Capital Partners

2011 Carey Watermark Investors 1, managed 
by affiliates of W. P. Carey and Watermark 
Capital, launches to capitalize on the 
imbalance in lodging industry fundamentals

2003 W. P. Carey launches CPA®:16 – Global,  
its first investment program with a stated 
objective of investing in both US and  
European net lease properties

2015 CPA®:18 – Global closes, having raised  
gross offering proceeds totaling $1.2 billion 

Lodging 

Corporate Credit

1986 W. P. Carey’s experience with lodging starts with an 
investment in a portfolio of Holiday Inn hotels in CPA®:5 

1992 W. P. Carey acquires a portfolio of 13 net leased 
Courtyard by Marriott properties through the CPA® programs 

2007 W. P. Carey completes first net lease hotel investment 
with Watermark Capital Partners

2011 Carey Watermark Investors 1, managed by affiliates  
of W. P. Carey and Watermark Capital, launches to capitalize  
on the imbalance in lodging industry fundamentals

2015 Carey Watermark Investors 2 begins fundraising to  
take advantage of ongoing trends in the lodging sector

2014 Carey Credit Income Fund (CCIF), managed by affiliates 
of W. P. Carey and Guggenheim Partners, forms to capitalize 
on our core competency of credit underwriting

2015 Capital raising commences through two feeder funds: 
Carey Credit Income Fund – 1 and Carey Credit Income  
Fund 2016 T

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Carey Forward

We introduced our Carey Forward 
program in 2013 as a tribute to our 
founder, Wm. Polk Carey, whose 
strong beliefs and philosophies 
formed the thread in the fabric 
of the company. Mr. Carey’s 
generosity, sense of duty, and lifelong 
commitment to Doing Good While 
Doing Well® were truly inspiring. 
In honor of that legacy, we have 
maintained the same dedication 
not only to financing properties for 
companies but also to helping the 
communities we serve. 

We have continued growing  
the Carey Forward program 
by demonstrating a sustained 
enthusiasm for building and fostering 
productive relationships between 
our company and our communities. 
The program encourages employees 
to become involved in philanthropic 
and charitable activities, devote their 
time and resources to meaningful 
causes and initiatives, and bring 
to philanthropic and community 

organizations the same level of skill 
and excellence they devote to their 
professional responsibilities. 

Although the organizations and 
activities we support can vary, our 
focus is on enhancing and further 
improving our communities through 
youth development and education, 
hunger relief, healthcare, animal 
welfare, and arts and restoration. 

In 2015, we supported the 
following organizations:

•  Bideawee

•  City Harvest

•  Feeding America (In partnership 
with Ameriprise Financial for  
its National Day of Service)

•  New York Blood Center

•  New York Cares

•  St. Jude Children’s  
Research Hospital

We are tremendously proud 
of what our Carey Forward 
participants achieved in 2015. 
Highlights include:

$20K

   raised for City Harvest as  

part of its Skip Lunch  
Fight Hunger campaign

500+

hours spent volunteering

$4K+

   raised to support St. Jude’s  
research for the treatment  
of childhood cancer and  
other deadly diseases

To learn more about  
Carey Forward, visit  
www.wpcarey.com/careyforward.

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Corporate Information

Board of Directors
Benjamin H. Griswold, IV 
Chairman of the Board & Chairman 
of the Executive Committee; Partner 
& Chairman of Brown Advisory, Inc.

Mary M. VanDeWeghe 
Vice Chair of the Board; Chair of 
the Nominating and Corporate 
Governance Committee; Chief 
Executive Officer & President,  
Forte Consulting Inc.

Mark J. DeCesaris  
Chief Executive Officer

Nathaniel S. Coolidge 
Chairman of the Investment 
Committee; Former Head of Bond 
& Corporate Finance Department, 
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance 
Company

Axel K.A. Hansing 
Partner, Coller Capital, Ltd.

Jean Hoysradt 
Vice Chair of the Investment 
Committee; Former Chief Investment 
Officer, Mousse Partners Limited

Dr. Richard C. Marston 
Chairman of the Finance and 
Strategic Planning Committee; 
James R.F. Guy Professor of Finance  
& Economics at the Wharton School  
of the University of Pennsylvania

Robert E. Mittelstaedt, Jr. 
Chairman of the Compensation 
Committee; Dean Emeritus of Arizona 
State University’s W. P. Carey School 
of Business

Charles E. Parente 
Chairman of the Audit Committee; 
Former Chief Executive Officer 
& Managing Partner of Parente 
Randolph, LLC

Nick J.M. van Ommen 
Former Chief Executive Officer, 
European Public Real Estate 
Association

Dr. Karsten von Köller 
Managing Director & Former 
Chairman, Lone Star Germany 
Acquisitions GmbH

Reginald Winssinger 
Chairman of National Portfolio, Inc.

Senior Management 
Mark J. DeCesaris 
Chief Executive Officer

Jason E. Fox 
President & Head of Global 
Investments

Mark M. Goldberg 
President, Investment Management; 
Chairman of Carey Financial, LLC

Hisham A. Kader 
Managing Director & Chief  
Financial Officer

Susan C. Hyde 
Managing Director, Chief Marketing 
Officer, Chief Ethics Officer & 
Corporate Secretary

Paul Marcotrigiano 
Managing Director & Chief  
Legal Officer

John J. Park 
Managing Director & Director  
of Strategy and Capital Markets 

Thomas E. Zacharias 
Managing Director & Chief  
Operating Officer

Executive Offices
W. P. Carey Inc. 
50 Rockefeller Plaza 
New York, NY 10020 
1-212-492-1100 
1-800-WP CAREY (1-800-972-2739)

Transfer Agent
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P.O. Box 43006 
Providence, RI 02940-3006 
1-888-200-8690

Institutional Investor Relations
Peter Sands 
Director of Institutional  
Investor Relations  
1-212-492-1110  
institutionalir@wpcarey.com

Individual Investor Relations
1-800-WP CAREY (1-800-972-2739) 
ir@wpcarey.com

Auditors
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Form 10-K
A copy of our Annual Report on  
Form 10-K as filed with the US 
Securities and Exchange Commission 
may be obtained without charge 
at www.sec.gov, by writing to the 
Executive Offices at the above 
address, or by visiting our website  
at www.wpcarey.com.

Trading Information
Shares of W. P. Carey Inc. trade on 
the New York Stock Exchange under 
the ticker WPC.

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