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Shop Talk: The investment opportunity in non-conventional lending

 What is non-conventional lending? What interest rate can a lender expect to earn? What is the typical length of a non-conventional loan? How can an investor get involved in this form of debt investing? Anthony Geraci — managing shareholder at Geraci Law and an advocate of non-conventional lending — is our guest. (06/2018)

Shop Talk: An update on real estate crowdfunding

 Real estate crowdfunding is projected to grow to $300 billion by 2025. How has crowdfunding influenced real estate investing? Has it democratized real estate investing? What are the risks individual investors need to understand? And what does the Statue of Liberty have to do with crowdfunding? Adam Kaufman, co-founder and managing director of ArborCrowd, an online real estate crowdfunding platform, is our guest. (06/2018)

Shop Talk: Using technology to manage real estate investments

 The real estate business has long had an aversion to technology and has been slow in its adoption. Our guest, Alex Robinson, co-founder and CEO of Juniper Square, argues the problem has been, in part, a lack of available and good quality technologies. That is changing. Robinson discusses the state of the art. (06/2018)

Webinar - IPA/Real Assets Adviser: Accessing Credit Offerings through Portfolio Diversifying Investments

 In a quest for less correlation and a more diversified portfolio, financial advisers are increasingly looking to private credit offerings. To effectively leverage private credit in a client's portfolio, however, asset level evaluation of the investment thesis is of critical importance. This call will look exclusively at private credit investments and how to effectively evaluate the strategy inside the wrapper and capture the benefits of the private credit asset class. (06/2018)  

Shop Talk: The outlook for the growth of real assets

 More investors are expanding their investment portfolios into real assets, with 19 percent of institutional investors planning to “significantly increase” their allocations. What is driving the expansion? What advantages do they offer a portfolio? Which real assets are showing the greatest promise? Prashant Tewari and Steve Cummings, executives from the Townsend Group and Aon, respectively, join the program to analyze the trend. (06/2018)

Shop Talk: A vertical, hyper-local approach to real estate investing

 Larry Taylor, founder and president of Christina Development Corp., says handing off any phase of real estate investing and management to a third party “makes no sense,” that real estate organizations need to be vertically integrated, and investment activity must be tightly focused geographically to truly understand nuances of the market. He joins us to discuss his 44 years in the business. (06/2018)

Shop Talk: Retail report from RECon 2018

 RECon 2018 — the Global Retail Real Estate Convention — was held May 20-23 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, and real estate developers, investors and retailers came together to make deals and consider the fast-changing future of retail. Stephanie Cegielski, an executive with the International Council of Shopping Centers, joins us to discuss the convention's outcome. (05/2018)

Inside the Edition: Jon Stein, founder and CEO of Betterment

 This is an edited version of a cover profile interview conducted by Real Assets Adviser editor Mike Consol with Jon Stein, founder and CEO of Betterment. Stein’s cover profile appears in the June 2018 edition of the magazine. (05/2018)

Shop Talk: Will cryptocurrencies become a trillion-dollar asset class?

 Are cryptocurrencies a passing fad or destined to become yet another major asset class for investors? What are security token offerings, or STOs, and why are they creating excitement? Why are financial players such as Goldman Sachs getting involved? Fresh from her speaking engagement at the Crypto Invest Summit, Dara Albright, founder of Dara Albright Media and FinTech Revolution TV, joins the program to discuss the temperature and insights from the conference. (05/2018)
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