Institutional Real Estate, Inc. Podcast
Summary: Institutional Real Estate, Inc. (IREI) — a commercial real estate publishing and consulting company — presents our new, free podcast series to help keep you up-to-date on the current institutional real estate investment market. Tune in throughout the month to hear updates from IREI's president and CEO, Geoffrey Dohrmann, in “The Dohrmann Report”; interviews with article authors that get you deeper into our publication in our “Inside the Edition” episodes; and “Report from Europe” episodes that will highlight different countries within Europe. Don't miss any episodes — subscribe now!
Podcasts:
Construction costs are on the rise, the CMBS market has rebounded and gone through some fundamental changes, and The Counselors of Real Estate have published their annual list of the top 10 issues likely to affect real estate during this year and 2019. Loretta Clodfelter, editor of Institutional Real Estate Americas, walks us through these stories, appearing in the September 2018 edition of the magazine. (09/2018)
What are the most positive and exciting projects and trends in the infrastructure space today? Our guest, Norm Anderson, CEO of CG/LA Infrastructure, takes us around the world and around many dimensions of the infrastructure backbone, and gives investors and rank-and-file citizens some reasons for renewed optimism. (08/2018)
Millions of Americans now depend on defined contribution plans to help them prepare for a secure retirement. The Defined Contribution Real Estate Council (DCREC) was launched in 2012 with the goal of improving retirement plans through the use of direct commercial real estate and real estate securities in DC plans. Our guest is one of the organization’s co-presidents, Allan Swaringen, who is also CEO of Jones Lang LaSalle Income Property Trust. He joins us to offer an update on DCREC’s progress. (08/2018)
This is an edited version of a cover profile interview conducted by Real Assets Adviser editor Mike Consol with Rick Buoncore, managing partner, MAI Capital Management. Buoncore’s cover profile appears in the September 2018 edition of Real Assets Adviser. (08/2018)
Italy has traditionally been viewed as a domestic investor market, but this has been changing. Why is Italy now attracting attention from cross-border investors? Which real estate sectors and geographic areas are garnering the most interest? What about risks associated with Italy’s threats to leave the European Union? We discuss those topics and other with Marek Handzel, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe. (08/2018)
What exactly are separate accounts? When do they make sense for institutional and high-net-worth individuals and families? What do they typically contain, and what potential risks or special considerations do separate accounts pose? Karen Brennan, head of custom and separate accounts at LaSalle, offers her experience and insights. (08/2018)
Why are so many wealth advisory firms still stuck on 60/40 stock-and-bond portfolios rather than adding alternatives and real assets to their menu of options? What’s involved in making the move to alternatives? And what advantages do alts and real assets offer RIAs and their clients? We get answers from Darren Whissen, founder and president of Atomi Financial Group, an investment management firm that, among other services, promotes endowment-style investment portfolios. (08/2018)
The extra large office of supervisory jurisdiction, or Super OSJ, is on the rise and offering a host of business and consulting services, and they’re earning tens of millions of dollars from their clientele. Joseph Kuo, president and managing partner of Haven Tower Group, which works with several Super OSJs, joins us by phone to discuss the trend. (08/2018)
Jackson Mueller, leader of the fintech program at the Milken Institute, joins us to discuss a recent federal report on fintech, the industry’s development, the prospects of major technology platforms — such as Amazon, Facebook and Google — getting into the finance business, and what his organization is doing to facilitate fintech’s overall progress. (08/2018)
Why has the number of crowdfunding platforms proliferated? Is a shakeout or consolidation coming? How have crowdfunding platforms performed thus far? What will the business look like in five or 10 years? Will it ever compete with tradition real estate funds? Jeff Holzmann, managing director of iintoo, a platform for real estate investments, joins us to discuss. (08/2018)
Even as Congress is expected to soon legalize hemp as a crop — with implications for activities ranging from medical treatments and construction materials to fabrics and investment opportunities — cannabis businesses have effectively been shut out of the banking business, leaving them with piles of cash and few effect ways to secure and manage it. Our guest, Nathaniel Gurien, founder of FINCANN, an organization that connect pot-related business with the so-called Cannabis Banking Financial Network, joins us to discuss those issues. (08/2018)
One of the most important themes in global real estate investing of late has been the focus on sustainability — or environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors. Although most managers have developed talking points about ESG factors in global real estate, few have attempted to develop a quantitative methodology to assess and rank companies according to their ESG behavior. Our guest, Jana Sehnalova, CEO and CIO of La Francaise Forum Securities, talks about a new index to measure ESG for global real estate securities. (07/2018)
What are the five stages of AI? What is our current stage of development? How are Amazon and other organizations using AI? And will advanced forms of AI pose a threat to human beings, as some futurists have warned? Our guest, Bahram Motamedian, counts AI as one of his areas of expertise. Officially, he is an executive managing director of portfolio management and chief strategy officer at USAA Real Estate. He shares his perspectives with us during this interview. (07/2018)
What makes Cuba uniquely attractive to U.S. investors? What are its major investment opportunities? Do the Cuban people have an entrepreneurial spirit after more than 50 years of socialism? What will it take for investors to succeed in Cuba? And what are the potential pitfalls? We ask Michael Andrews and Victor Hugo Rodriguez, two of the principals at Cuba Avanza Partners, a New York–based private equity firm focused on funding small- and medium-sized business in Cuba.
What makes Cuba uniquely attractive to U.S. investors? What are its major investment opportunities? Do the Cuban people have an entrepreneurial spirit after more than 50 years of socialism? What will it take for investors to succeed in Cuba? And what are the potential pitfalls? We ask Michael Andrews and Victor Hugo Rodriguez, two of the principals at Cuba Avanza Partners, a New York–based private equity firm focused on funding small- and medium-sized business in Cuba.