We just completed our 2015 CEO Summit in New York City. This is the first of what will become an annual event, specifically designed to enable the CEOs from around the globe who sponsor our publications to come together, connect with each other, exchange ideas and debate key issues that are important to them. (The event is open only to CEOs and only to sponsoring firms; no investors or consultants were present.)

The CEOs who attended this year’s event represented some of the world’s largest global, diversified, multiproduct-oriented real estate investment management concerns, and several smaller, more regionally focused or single-product-oriented firms. Participating CEOs included Robert Bellinger of ASB Real Estate Investments, Todd Briddell of CenterSquare Investment Management, Richard Coles of Vanbarton Group (formerly Emmes), Jeff Friedman of Mesa West Capital, Stephen Furnary of Clarion Partners, Tom Gochberg of TGM Associates, Michael Hayde of Western National Prop