Blueprint interview: Mr Diversity

Joe Azelby, a one-time professional American football player, has built JPMorgan’s core US real estate platform into a global real assets business with $60 billion under management. In an interview with PERE, he explains why he is a fan of diversity, why investors need to change their attitude towards allocation and why he ultimately is glad that his football career was short. By Robin Marriott. PERE Magazine June 2012 issue.


Azelby: business builder

Joseph Azelby, the head of global real assets at JPMorgan Asset Management, runs a business with $60 billion in assets and about 400 dedicated professionals for the largest bank in America. In American football-speak, he is the quarterback of a big-time team that manages real estate, infrastructure and other real asset strategies on behalf of a huge number of institutional investors in the Americas, Europe and Asia.