Videos & Podcasts

Inside the Edition: The co-CEOs of Pathstone Federal Street

This is a slightly edited version of a cover profile interview with Pathstone co-CEOs Steve Braverman and Allan Zachariah discussing the recent merger between Pathstone Family Office and Federal Street Advisors to create the $6.5 billion multi-family office named Pathstone Federal Street. Their cover profile appears in the April 2016 edition of Real Assets Adviser. (04/2016)

Inside the Edition: Airbnb's impact on the hotel business

How do Airbnb users and hotel guests differ? Which markets are most vulnerable to Airbnb? Which types of hotels are most at risk? Is Airbnb reducing hotel asset prices? How can hoteliers fend off the Airbnb challenge? Peter Zabierek, the CEO of Presima, joins us to elaborate on his organization’s research on the subject. (04/2016)

Infrastructure Report: The Infrastructure Strategies 2016 conference

Investors and experts from around the world will gather in Boston for the 11th annual IREI infrastructure conference in June. High on the agenda are fundraising, investment strategies, technology and the hardening infrastructure systems to withstand increasingly violent storms. Drew Campbell, editor of Institutional Investing in Infrastructure (a sister publication of Real Assets Adviser), provides an update. (03/2016)

Shop Talk: Economist Charles Clark on a guarantee minimum income

Did you know that President Nixon nearly passed guarantee minimum income legislation in the early ’70s? Or that the policy can significantly reduce the size of the U.S. government? That a 36 percent flat tax could pay for the program while also balancing the federal budget? Or that an experimental version of the program is afoot in a region of Canada? Charles Clark, a Catholic economist at St. John’s University, joins us to cover these topics and many others. (03/2016)

Author Spotlight: Wade Graham on Dream Cities

What is a Dream City? Where do our urban environments come from? How have they shaped us? How do we, in turn, shape them? We take up these matters with Wade Graham, author of the new book "Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World." (03/2016)

In Focus: Vivek Wadhwa on artificial intelligence

Vivek Wadhwa, Fellow, Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University, touches on the future of artificial intelligence and how it will impact real estate. (3/2016)

Shop Talk: The endowment model of investing

What exactly is the endowment model of investing? Why are an increasing number of RIAs gravitating toward its approach to three-dimensional portfolio construction? Prateek Mehrotra, chief investment officer of Endowment Wealth Management, joins us to explain. (03/2016)

Inside the Edition: Harvest season for farmland investors

How do individual investors access farmland as an investment? How does investing in farmland compare to investing in the stock market? What kind of returns can farmland investors anticipate? What trends are making farmland an attractive investment? U.S. Trust specialty asset and farm executives Dennis Moon and John Taylor provide the answers. (02/2016)

Infrastructure Report: Billion-dollar deals for toll roads

Are the number and fortunes of U.S. toll roads on the rise for private investors? Drew Campbell, editor of Institutional Investing in Infrastructure, joins the program to discuss his recent column on the topic, and a couple of recent multibillion-dollar toll-road deals by private investors. (01/2016)

IPA: Institutional Access to Individual Investors

Alternative investments — once only available to institutional investors — are now being tailored to meet the needs of individual investors.

IPA: Portfolio Diversification with Direct Investments

Alternative investments offer diversification to traditional stock and bond portfolios.

Inside the Edition: How driverless cars will reshape real estate

Jeff Kanne — CEO of National Real Estate Advisors and the co-author of an article that appeared in both Real Assets Adviser magazine and Institutional Real Estate Americas magazine — joins us to discuss the driverless-car revolution and his perspectives on how it is destined to cause mass disruption in the real estate business and force investors to rethink the financial commitments they make. (01/2016)

IPA: The Power of Industry Innovation

The end investor is the primary focus of the IPA. Through innovation, our goal is to improve and increase the level of transparency with respect to investment products.

The IPA and Broker Dealer: Working Together for Future Growth

The Investment Program Association (IPA) is promoting awareness of direct investment products and delivering education about these investments to broker-dealers.

Author Spotlight: Tom Morris on "The Oasis Within"

What is the "oasis within"? What is the world's "strangest gift of all"? What lesson is learned by looking into the opposite end of a telescope? And what applications do these and other lessons have to leadership and business? Tom Morris, who for 15 years was the most popular professor at the University of Notre Dame, has just authored his 21st book titled "The Oasis Within" and joins us to answer those and other questions. (12/2015)