Student housing has been a hot niche property type for real estate investors, including for Brian Nelson, founder and president of NB Private Capital, a student housing investment company located in Orange County, Calif. Nelson has spent a lot of time considering what student housing investors and developers need take into account when committing capital to this specialized category.

In the wake of the recent market volatility and headwinds facing many of the world’s largest asset managers, we expect a tectonic shift in the industry landscape over the next 12 to 24 months, driven by an increasing number of megadeals and large-scale consolidation plays.

Over the past 10 years, infrastructure investment has gained momentum among investors such as pension funds, insurance companies and sovereign wealth funds, but to a certain extent, infrastructure investment has hit a crossroads. From one side, the global economy is crying out for more infrastructure investment, but governments still own much of their economic infrastructure directly and are struggling to grow the pipeline of investable infrastructure assets. On the other side, a large and growing number of investors are competing for exposure to a relatively small pool of non-government-owned core infrastructure assets. This has seen transaction multiples increase strongly over the past decade. There is a clear supply and demand imbalance.

According to IREI’s FundTracker database, infrastructure investment managers closed five funds in first quarter 2019, raising nearly $19.4 billion. In first quarter 2018, five funds also held final closings, raising $10.6 billion, and in fourth quarter 2018, three funds had final closings, totaling $5.69 billion.

What if I told you we may not be too far off from The Six Million Dollar Man? The truth is we are not, and you can profit from this cyborg revolution. Robotics is an exploding industry. It is expected more than $66 billion will be spent in the robotics sector by 2025. The medical industry in particular will change completely thanks to robotics.

There is hope that a new breed of safer, less expensive fission reactors will help the nuclear energy sector mount a long overdue comeback in the United States, as well as other parts of the world, where some countries have curtailed or even abandoned their nuclear energy programs. With any luck, sodium-cooled fission reactors and other technologies — including the ability to reuse spent fuel — will get the public to regain their trust in the safety and viability of nuclear generating stations.

A guidance counselor pointed out to a young Clive Slovin that testing showed an affinity with numbers and suggested that becoming an engineer or actuary might be a fruitful career path for a young man. Slovin, a native of South Africa, says he was always more interested in business than those other suggested fields, so he headed to university to study accounting and become a CPA. His reasoning: The best way to get an overall view of business was to gain a firm command of the numbers fundamental to business performance.

That traditional U.S. shopping malls are in their death throes is an old story. What’s more current is the various ways these geographically well-positioned structures are being repurposed. Increasingly, they are being turned into office space. Westside Pavilion, a dying mall in Los Angeles, is one example. Hudson Pacific Properties aims to spend $410 million to transform it into a 584,000-square-foot Google office complex by 2022. It will be dubbed One Westside. Hudson Pacific was looking for an urban site with big floor plates and exceptionally high ceilings to redevelop into what it called “state-of-the-art creative office space” for future tenants. The company also wanted a central location near mass transit and major highways, in one of the handful of West Coast cities where it usually builds. The Westside Pavilion had all the desired characteristics.

Successful infrastructure delivery requires community buy-in. That’s why governments and developers pour resources into public meetings and marketing material for new construction projects. When there is no buy-in, new projects can get delayed or stop all together from community opposition. And, with a growing gap between available funding and infrastructure needs, these outcomes are risky for any budget. To address this problem, project sponsors in the United States and around the world are tapping into crowdfunding to get literal buy-in, both social and financial, from residents and end-users.

As bond investors know all too well, the world values capital less and less with each passing decade, perhaps due to the “global capital glut” famously assayed by Ben Bernanke in 2005, then-chairman of the Federal Reserve, and reiterated many times since.