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Jay Frank of Cantor Fitzgerald discusses qualified opportunity zones

Jay Frank, COO at Cantor Fitzgerald Investment Management, speaks with Brooke Heffington, managing director at Real Assets Adviser, about the Qualified Opportunity Zone Program including the program's impact on communities, the tax benefits available, and a comparison between 1031 exchanges and Opportunity Zone investments. (03/2021) To learn more: https://irei.com/news/cantor-fitzgerald-solution-2019-2020-capital-gains/

How investment houses are creating digital IDs to ensure compliance and prevent fraud

Compliance measures ensuring you know the true identity of your customers and that they are not laundering ill-gotten gains requires a lot of documentation and creates a huge amount of friction and inefficiency, racking up costs at some firm as high as 18 percent of revenue. Today, though, new technologies are giving finance and investment firms the capability to put stronger compliance measures in place for far less cost. How so? Matthew Unger, founder and CEO of iComply explains. (02/2021)

Why DSTs are hot and how they benefit real estate investors

The Delaware Statutory Trust has attracted the attention of major investment managers and have become more prevalent on investment product platforms. To explain the trend toward DSTs — including why they are attractive to an aging cohort of real estate owners and those seeking tax benefits — we welcome to the program Chay Lapin, senior vice president of Kay Properties & Investments. (02/2021)

Digital Infrastructure Update and Market Outlook (Jan 2021)

Data centers and cell towers served as essential assets supporting our digital transformation throughout 2020.  Brandon Hunt, Portfolio Manager at Strategic Capital Fund Management, shares his insights on market trends, tenants and what the future may hold for these dynamic real assets. (02/2021) Read Investing in cell towers: 5G is expected to take them to new heights by Jim Condon, president of SCFM, and download this free Digital Infrastructure Update Third Quarter 2020 report for these answers and more.

In Focus: David Scaysbrook on investment options in the energy transition

David Scaysbrook, managing partner and co-founder of Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, discusses surprising or overlooked areas of investment for institutional investors, key risks and opportunities arising from the energy transition and how investors can optimize their ESG and financial return objectives through the right manager strategy. (02/2021)

The space economy and how to invest

The next great leap in investing is the space economy, which is on the edge of liftoff, according to Morgan Stanley. Already estimated to be a $350 billion business, the space industry could surge to more than $1 trillion by 2040. The risks to investors? Among them is “space junk.” Sinead O’Sullivan — who has worked for NASA, JPL and MIT — explains. (02/2021)

In Focus: Uma Pattarkine on the ESG case for real assets

Uma Pattarkine, analyst, investment strategy CenterSquare Investment Management, discusses the environmental, social and governance case for real assets, and the future of ESG. (02/2021) To read about how institutional real estate investors across the globe are implementing environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles as part of their overall investment approach, as they embrace the credo of “doing well by doing good in the latest ESG Means Business, Spring 2021, a special report published by Institutional Real Estate, Inc. in cooperation…
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