In a sponsored supplement that accompanied the October issue of Real AssetsAdviser, Will McIntosh, founder and CEO of ArcBridge Research Group, spoke with Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder, chairman and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., about why he built an outsourced research business, and why independent research is needed in the industry. “Operating without research is like trying to fly an airplane into a cloud bank without an instrument rating, without any instrument flight training and with no instruments to guide you. An already perilous job gets a lot more perilous,” explains Mcintosh. “However, the firms that most need research are often the ones least able to afford building it. ArcBridge exists to close that gap: a full research department, delivered as a service, at
