What makes IREI publications unique is that we look to the industry participants for guidance on what we should research and write about in the year ahead. Obviously, we leave room to adapt as the year progresses, which proved critical after we set the 2020 i3 editorial calendar after meeting in November 2019. A year later, we again were joined (virtually, this time) by industry leaders for our 2020-2021 i3 Editorial Advisory Board Meeting. You can see the board members on page 52. While we are still finalizing the 2021 i3 editorial calendar based on discussions held at this meeting, I wanted to highlight some of the key themes that came out of this year’s discussions.

Real vs. perceived risks. With so much political tension, stress on the financial systems, second wave concerns, climate change fears, it is difficult to address what are real vs. perceived risks. Trying to make long-term investment decisions is hard enough w