How some real estate investment organizations are approaching DEI

Some in the commercial real estate industry have noticed an increasing awareness of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), or a shift in viewpoints more broadly, as these issues have come to the fore nationally in the past year. Institutional Real Estate, Inc. recently asked a collection of industry heavyweights to answer a few questions and share their forecasts and expectations for U.S. real estate in the current environment in “Walking the walk,” a roundtable in the March 2020 issue of Institutional Real Estate Americas.

The roundtable participants were Jeffrey Beckham, executive vice president, head of portfolio management and co-portfolio manager for the GID Mainstay Fund at The General Investment and Development Cos. (GID); Khalif Edwards, managing director of capital raising and investor relations at Starwood Capital