Videos & Podcasts

In Focus: Despina Katsikakis on the impact of the workplace on business performance

Despina Katsikakis, international partner, head of occupier business performance at Cushman & Wakefield, discusses how productivity, effectiveness and engaging workplaces impact employees. (11/2017)

Shop Talk: Applying blockchain technology to financial services

Why are people who understand blockchain so excited about its prospects? What are its potential applications for the financial services business? Jaron Lukasiewicz — cofounder and CEO of WRKFLOW, a startup that offers broker/dealers, insurance companies and other enterprises workflow software based on blockchain technology to help automate and secure their business processes — explains how blockchain works and how it can be applied to the investment industry’s most vexing regulatory requirements. (10/2017)

Infrastructure Report: Investing opportunities in India

With a trillion dollars of infrastructure needs pending in India, private investors have an opportunity to get involved with a country committed to rapidly modernizing its economy and challenging China for economic supremacy in Asia. Rahul Mody, managing director and head of infrastructure at Ambit Corporate Finance, joins us from Mumbai to discuss. (09/2017)

Inside the Edition: Investment opportunities in hydropower plants

Although wind and solar are today’s poster children for renewable energy, hydropower has been around much longer and boasts plants that have been operating reliably for more than 100 years, some of them with original equipment. What’s more, it can offer high rates of return, with most new hydropower being built today serving emerging markets with relatively high electricity prices and power demand growing in excess of 5 percent annually, 10 times the projected U.S. growth rate. Greg Morris, a…

In Focus: Jan Mende on U.S. LP sentiment on infrastructure

Jan Mende, senior vice president at Callan Associates, discusses U.S. LP sentiment on infrastructure such as the evolution of the asset class, what an infrastructure asset is and the importance of infrastructure and ESG. (08/2017)

In Focus: Mark Weisdorf on infrastructure returns

Mark Weisdorf, managing partner at Mark Weisdorf Associates, discusses why investors are moving up the risk spectrum in infrastructure. (08/2017)

The Dohrmann Report: August 2017

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., discusses the hiring of a new managing director of Institutional Investing in Infrastructure magazine, as well as some updates about the Institute for Real Estate Operating Companies (iREOC), the invitation-only club whose members (investors, managers and real estate operating companies) are seeking to form operating partnerships. (08/2017)

Shop Talk: The promise of micro-grids

What is a micro-grid and how does it work? What do micro-grids promise to do for commercial and residential energy systems? Are micro-grids a threat to power utilities? What are the opportunities for private investors? How will micro-grids be different in five or 10 years? Scott Kessler, an executive with LO3 Energy, illuminates. (08/2017)

Shop Talk: The current status and future of U.S. water quality

Did you know that U.S. water consumption peaked in 1971 and has been declining for decades? Or that water purity used to be measured in parts-per-million and is now measured in parts-per-trillion? Don’t let the unsavory scent or discoloration fool you, our water quality is better than ever. So says, Chris Franklin, CEO of water utility Aqua America. He joins us to discuss that state of water quality and its future. (09/2017)

In Focus: Jeremy Anagnos on listed infrastructure and the outlook in the asset class

Jeremy Anagnos, chief investment officer at CBRE Clarion Securities, discusses post-election investor interest in the infrastructure asset class, President Trump's proposed $1 trillion infrastructure program and different ways investors can access the infrastructure asset class. (08/2017)

In Focus: Jared Waldron on competition in the core infrastructure space

Jared Waldron, director at Northleaf Capital Partners, discusses how return compression has been driven by competition in the core infrastructure space and how investors can limit the impact on returns. (08/2017)

In Focus: Gregory Smith on mid-market infrastructure

Gregory Smith, president and CEO of InstarAGF Asset Management, discusses trends in mid-market infrastructure in North America, the future of infrastructure over the next five to 10 years, the importance of community support in the infrastructure market and more. (07/2017)

Shop Talk: Investing in water technologies and infrastructure

Hubert Aarts, co-portfolio manager for Impax Asset Management, a firm whose water investment strategy includes positions in about 250 companies with a combined market capitalization of more than $800 billion, comes on the program to discuss his perspectives on how investors can capitalize on the precious natural resource. (06/2017)

Inside the Edition: America's deteriorating water infrastructure

The development of properly updated infrastructure to both deliver and store clean water is a basic — and now critical — need that has been neglected for the past 40 years. So writes Burl East, CEO of American Assets Capital Advisers, in the June edition of Real Assets Adviser, an i3 sister publication. He joins us to discuss the dimensions of the problem and why it exists. (06/2017)

In Focus: Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry on change in the industry

Dr. JP Pawliw-Fry, co-founder and president of the Institute for Health and Human Potential, discusses how change is affected by proper management. (02/2017)