As of this writing, we are approaching the midway point of 2024, and we recently hosted our Spring Editorial Advisory Board Meeting for Institutional Real Estate Americas. As Geoffrey Dohrmann explained in the previous pages, all IREI publications are guided by an independent, investor-led Editorial Advisory Board that provides us with direct feedback on what to research and write about. IREI is fortunate to have publication sponsors who underwrite our work for a year at a time and enable us to host these meetings. For further context, below are highlights of the group of editorial board members who attended the meeting in April:
34 investors and consultants with close to $1 trillion invested in real estate
37 managers with $1.6 trillion in AUM focused on real estate
I found it interesting that there were a few topics suggested in the Food for Thought (see page 41 for a complete list) that the group did not want to dig into: