Videos & Podcasts

The logistics of delivering maintenance repairs at scale to residential portfolios

Andrea Zubow, senior vice president of the real estate division at Lessen, points to the “seismic shift” in how multifamily operators evaluate and optimize maintenance across portfolios. Today’s most successful multifamily operators are not focused strictly on individual repairs; they are focused on strengthening the infrastructure and systems responsible for delivering those repairs at scale. Zubow explains. (09/2026)

Real Assets Adviser Hot Minute with HBKS Wealth Advisors' Ethan Berkebile

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 Ethan Berkebile, Director of Investment Research at HBKS Wealth Advisors. (09/2026)

The rebuild or retrofit question facing real estate interests

The World Green Building Council estimates 80 percent of the buildings in use in 2050 are already standing, which implies real estate investors and managers are inclined to retrofit buildings containing good skeletons and foundations, for both environmental and financial reasons. Anwar Alam, senior structural engineer at Alpha Structural, an engineering and construction firm, discusses the matter. (09/2026)

Planting investor greenbacks in U.S. farmland

Farmland has been facing some headwinds in the form of tariffs, shifting government regulations, the rising cost of fuel and fertilizer, labor shortages and even climate change. But that is not to say farmland is not still an attractive member of an investment portfolio. Rob Moore and Drew Lipke, executives from AcreTrader, offer their perspectives. (09/2026)

The AI-fueled investment opportunities in digital infrastructure and energy

There is $6.4 trillion of capital needed for energy and digital infrastructure that public markets and commercial banks and cannot absorb. What makes the current situation different from past surges in infrastructure investment? And could we be witnessing a broader rotation from investing in the digital economy’s intellectual property toward investing in the physical infrastructure that makes that economy possible? Don Dimitrievich, a senior managing director and portfolio manager for energy infrastructure credit at Nuveen, offers his perspective. (09/2026)

Levin Johnston's Adam Levin and Robert Johnson on tech wealth flowing into real estate

Tech industry wealth is increasingly flowing into multifamily and commercial real estate, reshaping who's investing and how. Adam Levin, executive managing director, and Robert Johnston, executive managing director at Levin Johnston, explore what's fueling that shift, how tech investors' high-growth, high-risk mindset translates into real estate decisions, and whether that capital is concentrating in specific markets and asset classes or spreading broadly across the sector. (09/2026)

Real Assets Adviser Hot Minute with Empirical Wealth Management's Erik Lehr

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 Erik Lehr, Chief Investment Officer and Principal at Empirical Wealth Management. (09/2026)

Trends and opportunities in the power infrastructure ecosystem

The power grid is undergoing its biggest transformation in decades, propelling opportunities in related infrastructure service platforms and sectors. Jeff Jenkins, co-founder and managing partner of Bernhard Capital Partners, joins i3 editor Kali Arevalo to discuss where exactly private capital is flowing within the power infrastructure ecosystem, the structural shift in American re-industrialization and why the nature of current investment opportunities represent a lasting structural shift rather than cyclical demand. (09/2026)

Real Assets Adviser Hot Minute with Quotient Wealth Partners' Tim Harder

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 Harder, Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Quotient Wealth Partners. (08/2026)

Real Assets Adviser Hot Minute with Argosy Real Estate Partners' David Butler

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 David Butler, Co-CEO and Managing Partner at Argosy Real Estate Partners. (08/2026)

The EV charging challenge: Powering the robotaxi and fleet vehicle revolution

Tyler Sentman, vice president of finance at Voltera, a company founded in 2022 that builds and operates charging stations that serves fleets of robotaxis and other electric vehicles, joins the program to explain its promise and impediments of the charging station buildout. (08/2026)

Editors Roundtable: Infrastructure fundraising and the economic case for universal basic income

IREI editors convene to discuss issues of the day, and you’re invited to listen in. Joining the discussion is Loretta Clodfelter, the organization’s editorial director; Mike Consol, editor of Real Assets Adviser; Andrea Zander, editor of Institutional Real Estate Americas; and Kali Arevalo, editor of Institutional Investing in Infrastructure. (08/2026)

Lessons from the solar industry and the skies ahead

Jared Schoch, founder and chairman of TurningPoint Energy, a national solar development company, offers his perspective on the solar energy business — past, present and future. (08/2026)

Real Assets Adviser Hot Minute with Steward Partners' Chris Nuhn

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 Nuhn, Executive Director and Product Manager at Steward Partners. (8/2026)

Strong fundamentals — and investment opportunities — have returned to senior housing

Lynn Jerath, founder and president of Citrine Investment Group, and a seasoned investor and operator in the senior housing, joins the program to explain why the space has become a current favorite among investors. (08/2026)