Videos & Podcasts

Dispatch from the IPA Vision 2024 conference

IPA president and CEO Anya Coverman speaks with Real Assets Adviser editor Mike Consol from the floor of the IPA Vision 2024 conference in Orlando, Fla. Coverman illustrates — and teases — some of the changes brought to the new and rebranded IPA, the Institute for Portfolio Alternatives. (09/2024)

An assessment of foreign investor interest in U.S. real estate

Noam Franklin, Chinmay Bhatt and Cody Kirkpatrick, senior managing directors with Berkadia, spent the past nine months traveling to Asia and the Middle East to meet with institutional investors regarding their interests and intentions for investing in U.S. real estate. Here is what they learned. (09/2024)

Real Assets Adviser Hot Minute with Caprock's Chris Schelling

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 Chris Schelling, managing director of private markets at Caprock. (09/2024)

Real Assets Adviser Hot Minute with SCS Financial's Lane MacDonald

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 Lane MacDonald, Chief Investment Officer and Chair of Investment Committee at SCS Financial. (09/2024)

Real Assets Adviser Hot Minute with Summit Financial's Stan Gregor

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 Stan Gregor, CEO at Summit Financial. (09/2024)

CIG Companies' Christopher Kane on trends in the solar and hydrogen industries

Christopher Kane, CIO of CIG Companies, sits down with i3 editor Kali Persall to discuss challenges and opportunities in the solar production industry, key considerations for selecting locations for hydrogen production facilities and more. (09/2024)

Why hotels should be elevated to the status of major property type

How do hotel cap rates compare with other property types? What makes a great value-add hotel property? What are the strategies for keeping customers on site? How have travelers changed their hotel booking habits? Sean Hehir, CEO of Trinity Investments, an organization specializing in hotels and resorts, makes his case. (08/2024)

The financial opportunity between cell towers and property owners

What do cell companies pay property owners to station towers on their roofs? How do property investors maximize the value of their telecom assets. What are the unique attributes of telecom and digital infrastructure assets. And how many cell towers are there in the United States, and how many more are yet to come? Bernard Borghei, CEO of Symphony Wireless, has the answers. (08/2024)

Real Assets Adviser Hot Minute with Arch's Ryan Eisenman

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 Ryan Eisenman, co-founder and CEO at Arch. (08/2024)

Real Assets Adviser Hot Minute with Wellington-Altus Private Wealth's James Thorne

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 James Thorne, Chief Market Strategist at Wellington-Altus Private Wealth. (08/2024)

Going around the horn on real estate property types

With property markets at the midway point of 2024, Todd Henderson, head of real estate Americas for DWS’ alternatives platform, takes listeners on a tour across the major and niche property types and offers his evaluation on how each sector is performing — and which property type is shaping up to be the property type of the year. (08/2024)

When hospitality and augmented reality meets the retail business

What will be the role of augmented reality in retailing? What is the potential for the convergence of hospitality and retailing? What about the potential for repurposing office buildings to alternative retail uses? These are among the topics I discussed with CJ Follini, a professor at the Schack Institute of Real Estate at NYU, where he teaches about REITs, commercial real estate investment, and real estate capital markets. (07/2024)

Real Assets Adviser Hot Minute with Hamilton Lane's Jackie Rantanen

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 Jackie Rantanen, managing director at Hamilton Lane. (07/2024)

The mission to boost defined contribution plans with private alternatives

Jonathan Epstein, founder and president of The Defined Contribution Alternatives Association, has been a member of the defined contribution community for 24 years. Currently, he aims to bring more portfolio alternatives to the nation’s millions of DC plan participants. (07/2024)

Real Assets Adviser Hot Minute with Principal Asset Management's Rohit Vohra

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 Rohit Vohra, Senior Managing Director, Head of Global Wealth Alternatives at Principal Asset Management. (07/2024)