Your Investment Team

Chief Investment Officer
American Assets Investment Management

Executive Chairman of American Assets Trust, a real estate investment trust with approximately $2B in assets that listed on the NYSE in January 2011 (ticker: AAT).

Founded Insurance Company of the West and has served as its Chief Investment Officer for 35 years. Managed institutional capital since 1973. Built Westcorp into the largest auto finance company in the United States with $17B in assets. Westcorp was sold to Wachovia in 2006, where Mr. Rady joined the Board of Directors.

Other significant investment experience:

• Energy – Smith Energy and Summit Resources.
• Consumer goods – Anheuser Busch distributor.
• Healthcare – Board of Directors at Scripps Health and Salk Institute.
• Broadcasting – Radio stations.
• Former limited partner, San Diego Padres.
• Ernst and Young named Ernest Rady the Entrepreneur of the Year.
• Extensive history of charitable giving and community leadership in San Diego.
• Endowed the Rady School of Business at University of California San Diego (UCSD).
• American Assets Endowed the Rady Children's Hospital.
• Board of Directors at the Salk Institute.

Chief Executive Officer
American Assets Investment Management

28 years experience on Wall Street as a Managing Director and as a NASD Broker-Dealer member-owner. Raised approximately $15 billion in capital (mostly equity) from sophisticated investors globally in 142 large-scale real estate transactions including 26 IPOs, 40 follow-on offerings, 19 private equity transactions as well as numerous converts, preferred stocks, bond offerings, tenders, mergers, strategic advisory assignments and mezzanine debt placements

Currently serves on Leadership Council at USC’s Lusk Center for Real Estate and Board of Directors of Excel Trust, Inc., a NYSE listed equity REIT. Prior Board Associate for NAREIT. Spoken at over 250 large real estate industry events in the US, Europe, and Asia and chaired events like NAREIT’s Annual Convention. Mr. East has been interviewed in the financial press and on TV dozens of times and authored numerous articles for major publications like Barron’s.

Other significant investment experience:

• Dow Jones/Realty Stock Review Outstanding Sell Side Analyst, Honorable Mention, 1996, 1997, and 1998.
• Lectured at USC Marshal School of Business, Northwestern University, University of San Diego, and University of Wisconsin. Has authored approximately 20,000 pages of widely distributed research.
• MBA – Loyola University, Baltimore, Md.; Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
• Series 24 – General Securities Principal; Series 27 – Financial Operations Principal; Series 7 – Registered Representative; Series 63 – State Blue Sky.

Associate Portfolio Manager
American Assets Investment Management

Ten years of Wall Street experience on both sell-side and buy-side. Five years with Morningstar as equity research analyst. Domain experience in technology, media and retail industries. Extensive experience in modeling and securities valuation. Quoted in numerous financial media including CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN, IBD, Reuters, Forbes, and numerous local newspapers and radio stations.

Other significant investment experience:

• Guest lecturer at Notre Dame MBA course “Creating Pro Forma Financials”.
• Brandes Investment Partners ($45 billion AUM)- Trading/Portfolio Management liaison.
• Morgan Stanley - Hedge Fund Account Representative.
• Chartered Financial Analyst.
• MBA, Notre Dame, Fellowship recipient.