Videos & Podcasts

Real Assets Adviser Hot Minute with Badgley Phelps' Tim Thomas

Real Assets Adviser's "Hot Minute" segment takes a minute or so to introduce members of the RAA community to the community at large, all via a "semi-rapid fire" question and answer format. This latest "Hot Minute" features Tim Thomas, CFA®, Chief Investment Officer, Wealth Manager at Badgley Phelps Wealth Managers. (03/2025)

The U.S. insurance crisis and its relationship to real estate

Danielle Lombardo, chairwoman of the real estate, hospitality and leisure division of WTW (formerly Willis), discusses the insurance business and how it’s dealing with the tremendous number of natural disasters and huge insurance claims it has received — and the ramifications for the real estate business and the broader U.S. economy. (03/2025)

Real Assets Adviser Hot Minute with Accordant Investments' Adam Liebman

Real Assets Adviser's "Hot Minute" segment takes a minute or so to introduce members of the RAA community to the community at large, all via a "semi-rapid fire" question and answer format. This latest "Hot Minute" features Adam Liebman, Executive Director – Investment Strategist at Accordant Investments. (03/2025)

Spearmint Energy's Andrew Waranch on bringing awareness to battery energy storage

Andrew Waranch, founder, president and CEO of Spearmint Energy, sits down with i3 editor Kali Persall to discuss the company's new initiative to cover its battery energy storage system projects in local artwork, how the battery energy development market has grown in the past year, and the role BESS stands to play in the clean energy future. (03/2025)

Author Spotlight: Accumulating lifetime tax-free wealth using the 1031 exchange

Dave Foster, founder of the firm The 1031 Investor, wanted to travel the world in a sailboat and raise his children on the water, and they found a way. He applied the 1031 exchange to his real estate investments, enabling him to move his family to Florida, where he and his wife realized that dream. He leveraged that knowledge to publish “Lifetime Tax-Free Wealth: The Real Estate Investor’s Guide to the 1031 Exchange.” (03/2025)

Author Spotlight: Better than Alpha — three steps toward capturing excess returns

Christopher Schelling, managing director of private markets at Caprock, has met with roughly 4,000 investment firms across all alternative asset classes, managed commitments totaling nearly $7 billion, and has led due diligence on more than 100 funds. All of that experience came into play in the writing of his book Better than Alpha: Three Steps to Capturing Excess Returns in a Changing World. (02/2025)

Nuclear fusion — the energy revolution in development

It’s attracting billions in private investment because it promises to be the renewable power source that could propel the energy transition to full realization, producing massive amounts of carbon-free energy without radioactive waste or fears of meltdowns. We discuss fusion’s progress with Caroline Anderson of the Fusion Industry Association. (02/2025)

An interior design director on the enhanced amenitization of office buildings

Lauren Dennison, design director and workplace market leader at Vocon, an interior office architect firm based in New York City, discusses how U.S. office buildings are upgrading their environments to attract more leasing activity and bring workers back to the office. (02/2025)

Real Assets Adviser Hot Minute with Adero Partners' Michael Spector

Real Assets Adviser's "Hot Minute" segment takes a minute or so to introduce members of the RAA community to the community at large, all via a "semi-rapid fire" question and answer format. This latest "Hot Minute" features Michael Spector, CEO at Adero Partners. (02/2025)

Author Spotlight: Time Ahead — Investor’s Guide to Prosperity and Impact

Having read more than 1,000 books about investing, Ryan Zabrowski decided to author his own, a 500-page tome titled Time Ahead: Investor’s Guide to Prosperity and Impact, inspired by the lessons of Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham, and Nobel Laureates from Columbia, Penn, Yale and the University of Chicago. (01/2025)

Webinar: Q4/2024: FTSE Nareit U.S. Real Estate Indexes In Review & What’s Next

Institutional Real Estate, Inc. and Nareit present a quarterly update offering expert analysis of the FTSE Nareit U.S. Real Estate Index Series. During this one-hour webinar, John Worth, executive vice president of research & investor outreach at Nareit, and Geoffrey Dybas, Executive Managing Director, Head of Global Real Estate & Sr. Portfolio Manager at Duff & Phelps, will discuss the 2024 Q4 performance and upcoming trends to help you benchmark and analyze exposure. (01/2025)

Real Assets Adviser Hot Minute with GenTrust's Mark Neely

Real Assets Adviser's "Hot Minute" segment takes a minute or so to introduce members of the RAA community to the community at large, all via a "semi-rapid fire" question and answer format. This latest "Hot Minute" features Mark Neely, Director of Alternative Investments, Advisor at GenTrust. (01/2025)

The space economy and the new Berkeley Space Center

Tim Smith, director of development and project management with SKS Partners, recently returned from The Space Economy Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, with an update on the significant progress being made in capitalizing on space travel and research. He also discusses SKS’s work on the 1.4 million-square-foot Berkeley Space Center being built on the campus of NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley. (12/2024)

Real Assets Adviser Hot Minute with AlphaCore Wealth Advisory's Johann Lee

Real Assets Adviser's "Hot Minute" segment takes a minute or so to introduce members of the RAA community to the community at large, all via a "semi-rapid fire" question and answer format. This latest "Hot Minute" features Johann Lee, Director of Research at AlphaCore Wealth Advisory. (12/2024)

Real Assets Adviser Hot Minute with CIM Group's Byron Bent

Real Assets Adviser's "Hot Minute" segment takes a minute or so to introduce members of the RAA community to the community at large, all via a "semi-rapid fire" question and answer format. This latest "Hot Minute" features Byron Bent, National Sales Manager and Head of National Accounts for Broker Dealers at CIM Group. (12/2024)