Videos & Podcasts

Inside the Edition: Ed Keon, managing director of QMA

This is an edited version of an interview with Ed Keon, managing director of QMA, formerly known as Quantitative Management Associates, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Prudential. The interview was conducted for the cover profile about Mr. Keon and QMA on the cover of the September 2015 edition of Real Assets Adviser. (09/2015)

Shop Talk: Property assessed clean energy financing

Real estate veteran and investment management professional Robert Johnson, managing director of PACE Equity, discusses this new form of financing to retrofit buildings to boost their energy efficiency and market value. (09/2015)

Shop Talk: Tom Livergood and the Family Wealth Alliance

By the third generation, most wealthy families have seen a good deal of their wealth vanish. The ability to sustain — let alone expand — wealth is significantly influenced by human longevity and inadequate succession planning. Enter the founder and CEO of the Family Wealth Alliance, Tom Livergood, who shares his organization's research and insights regarding these issues. (08/2015)

Infrastructure Report: Private investors and the reconstruction of LaGuardia Airport

The Big Apple's three major international airports have been decried for their dilapidated Third World conditions. Finally, a plan is underway to reconstruct LaGuardia Airport to modern standards and capacity. Our guest, Stephen Sigmund is executive director of Global Gateway Alliance, a coalition of leaders in business, government, academia and labor dedicated to addressing the major challenges facing the New York metropolitan region’s airports and related infrastructure. Sigmund joins us to discuss the massive LaGuardia project. (08/2015)

Infrastructure Report: An investment conference retrospective

Drew Campbell, editor of Institutional Investing in Infrastructure, discusses the chief topics at IREI's recent I3 Infrastructure Strategies conference in Toronto, Canada. (08/2015)

Author Spotlight: Becoming an engaged leader through social media

Charlene Li — founder and CEO of Altimeter Group and the author of bestsellers such as "Groundswell," named one of the best business books in 2008 — discusses her latest title, "The Engaged Leader." In her latest book, Li writes, among other things, about leaders becoming more active in social media as a means for exerting and expanding their influence. She was named one of the 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company in 2010, and one of…

Shop Talk: The outlook for REITs

Why are REIT stocks down this year? Are REIT shares too expensive? What will their total returns be for 2015? And what REITs sectors will perform best? To get answers to those and other questions, we turn to Ralph Block, who has participated in the REIT industry in various professional investment and advisory capacities since 1995, and has been investing in REIT stocks for more than 40 years. (07/2015)

Author Spotlight: Coventry Edwards-Pitt of Ballentine Partners

At a certain level of wealth, money makes parenting harder rather than easier. That is one of the conclusions of our featured guest, Coventry Edwards-Pitt, author of "Raised Healthy, Wealthy & Wise: Lessons From Successful Inheritors on How They Got That Way." She is also a managing director and the chief wealth advisory officer at Ballentine Partners. We talked to her about successful parenting in the highest income brackets. (07/2015)

Glenn Mueller: Real Estate 101

Presented by Glenn Mueller, Real Estate Investment Strategist, Dividend Capital, and Professor, Burns School of Real Estate, University of Denver. This is a six-part video series for newcomers to the real estate asset class who want to gain a thorough understanding of its role in a multi-asset portfolio, as well as property fundamentals, investing, capital markets and portfolio management. (07/2015)

Shop Talk: Private real estate investing and defined contribution plans

David Skinner, an executive director at Prudential Real Estate Investors and an executive board member for the Defined Contribution Real Estate Council, is our guest and discusses target date funds, liquidity, the daily pricing of private real estate assets, and the strides being made toward integrating private real estate investment opportunities into defined contribution plans. (07/2015)