Institutional Real Estate, Inc. Podcast

What is the current fundraising environment for real estate funds? Other than having the right strategic focus, what sells an investor on a real estate fund? What are some of the cardinal mistakes fund managers make when going out in pursuit of capital? How are investor appetites changing in terms of investor interest and commitments in various property types? What is the hottest property type these days? What are the most popular secondary markets? What about that debt versus equity real estate funds? Our expert guest is a veteran of the business, Nancy Lashine, founder and managing partner of Park Madison Partners. (10/2018)

The 2018 National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care Fall Conference was held Oct. 17 in Chicago with more than 3,000 people in attendance. A packed agenda included discussions about tech innovations, present and future investing, supply and demand, changing investor capital flows, the sector's history of investor returns, and how properties are changing to accommodate the predilections and attitudes of aging baby boomers. Beth Mace, the organization's chief economist and director of outreach, joins us with details. (10/2018)

More than 44,500 people and over 2,000 companies, cities and regions exhibited at this year's Expo Real, the annual international trade fair for property and investment hosted in Munich, Germany. On the ground for us at the expo was Marek Handzel, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe. He joins the podcast to offer his observations. (10/2018)

This is an edited version of a cover profile interview conducted by Real Assets Adviser editor Mike Consol with Mark Jordahl, head of wealth management at U.S. Bank. Jordahl’s cover profile appears in the November 2018 edition of Real Assets Adviser. (10/2018)

Chase McWhorter, managing director of Institutional Investing in Infrastructure, discusses some observations made by recent articles in the magazine regarding technology and the impact it is having on infrastructure investing. (10/2018)

Why have REITs been trading at discounts, and what does it mean for private real estate? Loretta Clodfelter, editor of Institutional Real Estate Americas, discusses the story in the October 2018 edition of the magazine that tackles that question. (10/2018)

This is an edited version of a cover profile interview conducted by Real Assets Adviser editor Mike Consol with Kathy Fisher, head of wealth and investment strategies, Bernstein Private Wealth Management. Fisher’s cover profile appears in the October 2018 edition of Real Assets Adviser.

Regulatory and market factors have combined to highlight the need for liquidity options in what has historically been illiquid securities. This fundamental client need has given rise to closed end interval funds and Daily NAV REITs in an asset class that has limited liquidity. This call will focus on these options and the tradeoff between liquidity and asset class exposure via an in-depth discussion between FactRight's Scott Smith and Griffin Capital Securities' Mark Goldberg. (07/2018)

On the strength of 25 years of uninterrupted economic growth — and another 10 to 15 more years of the same — the Poland retail sector has grown year-over-year by 7 percent annually, and brick-and-mortar retail sales are forecast to grow by 30 percent in the years to come, and e-commerce sales are expected to triple. Marek Handzel, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe, expands on the country’s robust economic trends. (09/2018)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate Inc., discusses the just-completed 2018 Fall Editorial Advisory Board Meeting for IREI Americas, as well as upcoming events, and a new consulting venture the company has launched for players — and would-be players — in the private wealth advisory market. (09/2018)

Will Rhind, founder and chief executive of GraniteShares, where just a dozen employees in WeWork office space are taking on ETF behemoths BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard, joins us to discuss his David vs. Goliaths tale, which has taken him from Scotland to London to Manhattan. (09/2018)

Executives at the RIA Halbert Hargrove came to the conclusions several years ago the traditional 60/40 stock-and-bond portfolio had become outdated and made the landmark decision to replace it with portfolios containing a more diverse set of asset classes. How did the decision come about? How was executed? What was the reaction from the firm’s advisers and clients? And how has the plan worked thus far? Investment committee chief Brian Spinelli and CEO Russ Hill and join the discussion. (09/2018)

What is “climate infrastructure” and how are those deals sourced and funded? Why should investors include climate infrastructure in their investment portfolios? What size investments are required in the climate infrastructure space? For answers to those questions we turned to Reid Capalino, a principal with the Aligned Intermediary, an investment advisory firm created to help long-term investors channel institutional capital into clean energy, water infrastructure, and other projects. (09/2018)

Nuclear energy has long been a feared and decried power source in many circles, but with climate change threatening the planet in ways nuclear plants never have, a chorus of former naysayers are now pointing to nuclear energy as an essential technology for decarbonizing earth’s atmosphere. To discuss the industry’s outlook, nuclear energy expert John Kotek, an executive with the Nuclear Energy Institute and a former official with the U.S. Department of Energy, joins us. (09/2018)

Chase McWhorter, managing director of Institutional Investing in Infrastructure, discusses the results of a recent survey seeking to better understand infrastructure investors and managers, as well as other related issues. (09/2018)