Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and HCN Form Joint Venture in Portfolio of Medical Office Buildings in Southern California - Seite 2

About Canada Pension Plan Investment Board

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is a professional investment management organization that invests the funds not needed by the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to pay current benefits on behalf of 18 million contributors and beneficiaries. In order to build a diversified portfolio of CPP assets, CPPIB invests in public equities, private equities, real estate, infrastructure and fixed income instruments. Headquartered in Toronto, with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, New York City and São Paulo, CPPIB is governed and managed independently of the Canada Pension Plan and at arm's length from governments. At March 31, 2015, the CPP Fund totalled $264.6 billion, of which $34.1 billion represented real estate investments. For more information about CPPIB, please visit www.cppib.com.

About Health Care REIT, Inc.

HCN, an S&P 500 company with headquarters in Toledo, Ohio, is a real estate investment trust that invests across the full spectrum of seniors housing and health care real estate. We also provide an extensive array of property management and development services. As of June 30, 2015, our broadly diversified portfolio consisted of 1,411 properties in 46 states, the United Kingdom, and Canada. More information is available on the company's website at www.hcreit.com.

Forward-Looking Statements for Health Care REIT, Inc.

This press release may contain "forward-looking" statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. When HCN uses words such as "may," "will," "intend," "should," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "project," "estimate" or similar expressions that do not relate solely to historical matters, it is making forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause the actual results to differ materially from HCN's expectations discussed in the forward-looking statements. HCN's expected results may not be achieved, and actual results may differ materially from expectations. This may be a result of various factors, including, but not limited to, the status of the economy; the status of capital markets, including availability and cost of capital; issues facing the health care industry; competition within the health care and seniors housing industries; the failure to make new investments or acquisitions as and when anticipated; the cooperation of joint venture partners; unanticipated difficulties and/or expenditures relating to future investments or acquisitions; the ability of the joint venture partners to cooperate and reach agreement on major decisions; and the failure of the joint venture to increase its ownership stake in the portfolio. Additional factors are discussed in HCN's Annual Report on Form 10-K and in its other reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Finally, HCN undertakes no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether because of new information, future events or otherwise, or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those projected in any forward-looking statements.