Videos & Podcasts

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)

Inside the Edition: Will Braman, CIO, Ballentine Partners

This is an edited version of a cover profile interview with Will Braman, chief investment officer of Ballentine Partners, a $5.2 billion wealth advisory firm based in the Boston suburb of Waltham, Mass. His cover profile appears in the December 2015 edition of Real Assets Adviser. (12/2015)

Report from Europe: Assessing the alternatives

Michael Haddock — senior director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at CBRE — elaborates on the “Assessing the Alternatives” article he wrote for December 2015 edition of Institutional Real Estate Europe (a sister publication to Real Assets Adviser). Haddock, in his article and during this discussion, deals with this question: Is it a smart move to start making commitments to high-yield real estate investments, or is that strategy too risky in the current environment? (12/2015)

Shop Talk: New indices from NCREIF

Peter Steil, CEO of the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries, joins us to discuss his organization's newest indices, including its Daily Priced Fund Index, which is geared to make direct investments in private real estate more feasible and liquid for the retail wealth adviser and investor. (11/2015)

Shop Talk: The presidential politics of homeownership

Jonathan Schein, an executive with Institutional Real Estate, Inc. (the parent company of Real Assets Adviser magazine), offers an analysis of homeownership among past presidential contenders. Could the right level of homeownership smooth one's path to the White House? (11/2015)

Shop Talk: Investing in listed infrastructure

We are joined by Todd Briddell, CEO and chief investment officer of CenterSquare Investment Management, an organization that has traditionally dealt with institutional investors such as pension funds, foundations and endowments, but more recently has been moving into the retail space, with fund offerings for high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and family offices. (11/2015)

Shop Talk: Investing in emerging markets

Nate Suppaiah, managing director of the Emerging Market Investors Association (www.emia.org), joins us to discuss why wealth advisers and their clients should be investing overseas, and how to make those foreign adventures a success. (10/2015)

Inside the Edition: Garrett Thornburg, founder and chairman, Thornburg Investment

This is an edited version of a cover profile interview with Garrett Thornburg, the founder and chairman of Thornburg Investment Management, a $60 billion investment house in Santa Fe, NM. His cover profile appears in the November 2015 edition of Real Assets Adviser. (10/2015)