Videos & Podcasts

The rationale behind infrastructure credit investing

Infrastructure investing has been a favorite among investors for years, though less talked about is the utility of investing in infrastructure credit. Our guest, Alessandro Merlo, managing director and head of infrastructure debt at UBS Asset Management, explains the opportunity. (03/2023)

Shrinking office attendance and its impact on business district retailers

Christine Mastandrea — COO of Whitestone Real Estate Investment Trust, which owns, develops and redevelops e-commerce-resistant neighborhood and lifestyle retail centers — lends us her voice and expertise in discussing the domino effect that office sector travails are having on the portion of the retail sector that has colonized around office buildings in financial and business districts. (02/2023)

The hottest U.S. apartment market of them all

Multifamily has been hot for years, and some markets hotter than others. But what is the hottest apartment market of them all? Shakti C’Ganti, founder and CEO of Ashland Greene Capital and former investment banker at Lehman Bros., says there is one market that has risen above all other, based on five key drivers. He joins the program to identify that market and explain the measurements used to assess its supremacy. (02/2023)

Inside the mind and actions of the SEC

Amy Lynch, founder and president of FrontLine Compliance — and a former regulator at both the SEC and FINRA — makes a return appearance to the program to discuss recent regulatory action by the SEC on cryptocurrencies, ESG, the agency’s new marketing rule, and its concerns around private funds. (02/2023)

Real estate deal flow and the economic outlook

Featured on this edition of the program is Jim Costello, chief economist at MSCI Real Assets, to discuss the latest trends in U.S. real estate deal flows and the economic conditions driving the deals that are getting done — and not getting done. (02/2023)

Foreign real estate investing in the United States and the forces that threaten

Gunnar Branson, the CEO of AFIRE (the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate), joins the program to discuss his organization’s insights with regard to foreign capital flows into the United States, secondary real estate markets, the country’s aging population and its restrictive immigration policy. (02/2023)

Bluerock CEO offers perspectives and forecasts for real estate 2023

Ramin Kamfar, founder and CEO of Bluerock, joins the program to discuss a host of topics, such as: The main headwind facing real estate investors, as well as the prime tailwind. The most likely property-type-of-the year. What might be the sleeper property type for 2023. The future of office. The U.S. housing crisis. It’s all here — those topics and more. (02/2023)

An interview with Anthony Scaramucci, founder and managing partner of SkyBridge Capital

This is an edited version of cover profile interviews conducted by Real Assets Adviser editor Mike Consol with Anthony Scaramucci, founder and managing partner of SkyBridge Capital. Scaramucci’s cover profile appears in the February 2023 edition of Real Assets Adviser.

Bringing smart-home technologies to single-family and multifamily homes

John Galante — president of AE Ventures, producers of the TecHome Builder Summits and Housing Transformation Summits — is our guest during this episode to discuss the host of current and emerging construction and home-based technologies that promise to revolutionize the housing business in its many forms. Looking further ahead, Galante shares his “big seven tech-home experiences and applications.” (01/2023)

Four logistics investments to make now for 2023

Melinda McLaughlin, senior vice president, global head of research with Prologis, looks ahead to balance of 2023 and identifies four logistics investments that will pay dividends in this year. (01/2023)

ETFs as the Silicon Valley of finance, and Blackstone’s BREIT conundrum

Phil Bak, CEO of Armada ETFs, calls ETFs the “Silicon Valley of finance,” while offering some cautionary notes about private REITs and redemptions. We get his take on the fallout surrounding the Blackstone BREIT and how the firm might have played it differently if it knew then what it knows now. (01/2023)

Corsair Infrastructure's Paul Cozza on the outlook for global ports

Paul Cozza, managing director, portfolio operations at Corsair Infrastructure, discusses how global ports are faring amid supply chain disruptions, long-term impacts associated with global transportation challenges and the outlook for ports moving into 2023. (01/2023)

The niche in life sciences real estate

Olivia Drew, portfolio manager for U.K. life sciences real estate at UBS, joins the program from London to discuss this burgeoning niche property type — its current status, performance, and expected longevity as a hot category. (01/2023)

The expanding investment in green urban infrastructure

Dom Bonte, a vice president at ABI Research, joins the program to discuss a new report produced by his organization showing global public and private investment in green urban infrastructure are expected to increase from $606 billion in 2022 to $978 billion in 2030. Why the boom? What are the main types of green urban infrastructure? What are the benefits for cities? How are "digital twins" being used to plan, design, manage and maintain green infrastructure? We discuss. (01/2023)

10 tips for protecting your data while traveling

John Reinhardt, chief technology officer at Atria Wealth Solutions, says to prevent yourself from falling victim to corporate espionage requires taking certain measures before traveling, while traveling, and after returning home from your travels. During this episode he explains the principals and practices for keeping your data safe. (12/2022)