We first started publishing Institutional Real Estate Americas in its prior incarnation, The Institutional Real Estate Letter, in 1989 to help fill what we saw as a gap in the market — a publication that truly was designed to serve the information needs of U.S. institutional investors who were investing in U.S. markets. (With the exception of JMB Institutional Partners I — the very first opportunity fund — no U.S. institutional investors were investing anywhere else around the globe at that time.) Over the years, as the markets evolved, the publication’s focus was expanded to cover the full range of the risk spectrum (in 1989, only a handful of investors were doing anything but unleveraged core investing) and, eventually, public market, debt-focused, international (offshore) and global investing. We also gradually started to expand the audience for the publication to include serving the interests of Canadian, Mexican, and Central and South American institut