secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     American Healthcare REIT, Inc. (AHR)
CIK:        0001632970
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-09-02T21:22:39+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-26-380473
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.70
Item codes: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

American Healthcare REIT names Aric Chang CFO; Brian Peay retires after 10 years
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- Aric Chang named CFO effective Oct 1, 2026; succeeds Brian Peay retiring Sept 30, 2026 after 10 years.
- Chang compensation: $500k base salary, 100% target bonus, $1M LTI from 2027, $310k signing cash.
- Peay transition: consulting through Apr 15 2027; gets 2026 salary as consulting fee, 150% of 2026 base STI, 18,159 shares accelerated, $45k COBRA.
- Chang joins from Public Storage (PSA) where he was CFO Real Estate, overseeing ~$16B capital deployment.
- Peay's retirement not due to disagreement; no family relationship or transactions with Chang.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1632970/000119312526380473/0001193125-26-380473-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1632970/000119312526380473/ahr-20260902.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-26-380473

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