SmartStop Asset Management CIO Wayne Johnson to Speak at Citi Equities' Self Storage Private Operator and Broker Dinner

LADERA RANCH, Calif., June 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- SmartStop Asset Management, LLC (SmartStop) announced today that its chief investment officer, Wayne Johnson, will speak at Citi Equities' Self Storage Private Operator and Broker Dinner on July 10.

Hosted by Citi's REIT team, the event will take place from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at CitiGroup Center, located at 153 E. 53rd St. in Midtown Manhattan. Held in a roundtable format, Johnson and other participants will engage in discussions with attendees about trends impacting the self storage sector, including technology changes in marketing and revenue management, the impact of aggregators, growth in large operator third party management platforms, and the outlook for new supply growth.

"I am honored to be selected as a participant of Citi Equities' Self Storage Private Operator and Broker Dinner and look forward to in-depth discussions with attendees about the trends and fundamentals currently shaping the self storage market," said Wayne Johnson, chief investment officer.

A part of CitiGroup, Citi Equities provides a broad range of products and services for equity and equity-linked instruments, including sales, trading, financing and market-making; and devising and distributing structured solutions. Citi Equities provides access to liquidity via its internal crossing platform and through connectivity with global markets.

About SmartStop Asset Management, LLC

SmartStop is a diversified real estate company focused on self storage, student housing and senior housing assets. The company has approximately $1.5 billion of real estate assets under management, including 116 self storage facilities located throughout the United States and Toronto, Canada, comprised of approximately 73,500 units and 8.5 million rentable square feet. SmartStop's real estate portfolio also includes five student housing communities with approximately 2,800 beds and 1.1 million square feet of space, as well as three senior housing communities with approximately 350 beds and 250,000 rentable square feet of space. SmartStop is the sponsor of four public non-traded REITs: Strategic Storage Trust IV, Inc., Strategic Storage Trust II, Inc., and Strategic Storage Growth Trust, Inc., all focused on self storage assets, and Strategic Student & Senior Housing Trust, Inc., focused on student and senior housing assets. SmartStop is also a national sponsor of Section 1031 exchange offerings using the Delaware statutory trust structure. Additional information regarding SmartStop is available at www.SAM.com and more information regarding SmartStop® Self Storage in the United States and Canada is available at www.smartstopselfstorage.com.

SOURCE SmartStop Asset Management, LLC