JLL vs AEG Comparison

Jones Lang LaSalle is a global commercial real estate services and investment management company that helps clients buy, build, occupy, manage, and invest in property across office, industrial, retail, multifamily, hotel, and data center assets. For over 200 years, clients have trusted JLL, a Fortune 500 company, tracing its roots to firms including LaSalle Partners (founded in Chicago in 1968) and the centuries-old London firm Jones Lang Wootton, which merged in 1999 to form the modern JLL. Today, the firm is a leading global commercial real estate services and investment management company with operations in over 80 countries and a global workforce of more than 113,000, as of early 2026.

Aegon is a life insurance and long-term savings business listed in the Netherlands. It was listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange in the 1980s and now has mature operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and four growth markets of Brazil, China, Portugal, and Spain. In recent years, Aegon has been moving through an extensive transformation program during which management has sought to divest noncore operations and improve the risk profile of the business. Financial assets are the parts of the company that are now being run off. Aegon is looking to cycle out of capital-consumptive and volatile earnings products and recycle capital into capital-light and more predictable strategic businesses.