Focus on Alternatives: Bill Shopoff on value-added real estate Bill Shopoff, president & CEO at Shopoff Realty Investments, discusses the difference between value-added, opportunistic and income-based investing when it comes to real estate, gives examples of what these types of properties and investment situations would look like, and more. (04/2020)
Inside the Edition: Pepper Anderson, CEO of Chilton Trust Co. This is an edited version of a cover profile interview conducted by Real Assets Adviser editor Mike Consol with Pepper Anderson, CEO of Chilton Trust Co. Anderson’s cover profile appears in the April 2020 edition of Real Assets Adviser. (03/2020)
Shop Talk: Investors buying raw land in rural America If you're a real estate investor, buying raw land is probably not your thing. Generally speaking, neither is investing in ranches, farms, plantations and recreational areas in rural America. Most property investors favor developed real estate with proven track records in top-tier U.S. cities and suburbs. But there are companies that specialize in raw and rural land, and one of them is National Land Realty. Jason Burbage, president of that organization, joins the program to explain the interest in America's…
Focus on Alternatives: Bill Robbins on fintech and electronic processing Bill Robbins, CEO at WealthForge, discusses the systemic inefficiencies in the fintech space, what is being done from a technological perspective to help solve these inefficiencies and more. (03/2020)
In Focus: François Forget on opportunities in REITs François Forget, executive vice president of business developments and strategic initiatives at Presima, discusses how REITs are moving the needle in terms of generating income, accessing alternatives and meeting ESG targets. (03/2020) François Forget attended IREI's 2020 Visions, Insights & Perspectives (VIP) Americas event in Dana Point, Calif. in January.
Shop Talk: Bringing the blockchain and tokenization to real estate investing Tokenization, blockchain, digital vaults — these are some of the phrases associated with tech platforms that are helping facilitate, make liquid and take the friction out of investing in alternatives and hard assets, as well as lowering the minimum investments required. What are the advantages of this kind of tokenization, and why has the adoption of tokenization not been more widespread to date? We put those questions to one of the executives playing in this emerging space, Ed Nwokedi, CEO…
Focus on Alternatives: Robert Kaplan on Regulation A Robert Kaplan, Jr., partner at Kaplan Voekler Cunningham & Frank, discusses all things Regulation A. (03/2020)
In Focus: Matt Diserio on water infrastructure investments Matt Diserio, president and co-founder of Water Asset Management, discusses ways to invest in water infrastructure, risk-return opportunities for investors, and how climate change is changing the nature of water investing. (03/2020)
Shop Talk: Trends in private wealth The private wealth space is going through wholesale changes. What are the prevailing trends and where is the private wealth business headed? Neil Menard, an executive with Conversus, a newly minted StepStone Group company, offers his observations. (03/2020)
In Focus: John Ockerbloom on risks and opportunities in the 2020 market John Ockerbloom, U.S. head of real estate equity at Barings, discusses the biggest risks and most compelling opportunities in the context of a looming recession. He also explains why he believes core will outperform value-added real estate over the next three-to-five years, and which investors will be hit the hardest. (03/2020)