Every year in January, Institutional Real Estate, Inc. holds its annual CEO Sponsor Briefing event where IREI officials meet with the company’s publication sponsors to present and discuss the preliminary results of the annual investor survey. The survey has been a collaboration between IREI and Kingsley Associates for 18 years, and this year’s release of the Global Annual Institutional Investor Survey is the first time investors outside the United States have been included in the research. The survey is forward look at investors’ plans for the coming year. The previous year’s data is also used to compare what investors actually did vis-à-vis what they had said they planned to do in the prior year’s survey.

The U.S.-based investors who participated in the survey included public and corporate pension funds, endowm