Videos & Podcasts

Author Spotlight: Thinking about your firm as a tech-enabled platform

Rob Finlay, CEO of Thirty Capital and the author of "Beyond the Building," says real estate companies and investors need to use innovation to create and grow their commercial real estate portfolios. (04/2024)

Professional sports and its investment opportunities

Kunal Merchant, a partner and COO at the private equity firm Revitate Sports, talks pro sports, TV contracts, merchandising, fantasy football, the “star system” and how investors can make money by investing in professional sports — short of franchise ownership. (03/2024)

Lessons in REIT investing with NYU real estate students

Scott Robinson, professor of capital markets at New York University, oversees a student-managed REIT fund managing money from the university's benefactors. How are the students faring? What property types are the students emphasizing in the fund? What are their aspirations in the real estate industry post graduation?  Professor Robinson explains. (03/2024)

An assessment of the revived U.S. retail market

Annie Malo, a partner with the law firm Holland & Knight LLP, represents tenants and landlords in her retail practice and has witnessed a post-pandemic boom in U.S. retailing. This comes after years of investors treating the sector as though it were kryptonite. (03/2024)

Irrational investor behavior and how financial advisers and managers can quell the situation

Greg Davies of Oxford Risk is a specialist in applied behavioral finance and decision science. He founded the banking business’s first behavioral finance team at Barclays in 2006, which he led for a decade. In additional to being a frequent speaker on the subject, Davies runs “behavioral wine tasting events” with wine master John Downes. (02/2024)

The overlooked and high-performing apartment markets of the Midwest

Ben Young, CIO at Buckingham and a former managing director at BlackRock in New York, is now stationed in Indianapolis and has much to say about the friendliness, work ethic and general ethos of Midwesterners — and the grand investment opportunities in the so-called Fly-Over States. (02/2024)

Walton Global executive on U.S. housing and the value of banking land

Kate Kaminski, COO at Walton Global, discusses the strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. housing market, as well as the just-in-time delivery of developable land to investors and builders. (02/2024)

How residential and commercial owners’ associations factor into long-term performance

Bob Cardoza, president of the western region at FirstService Residential, discusses HOAs and their commercial equivalent, as well as the major issues they face and the financial opportunities they can create. (02/2024)

Four ways to invest in the bourbon boom

Kate Lynch, former Wall Streeter, and brother Rick Lynch, a fintech entrepreneur turned bourbon distiller and investor, discuss the bourbon and the Super Premium American Whiskey segment, which grew at a 15.9 percent compounded annual growth rate from 2003 to 2022, and its prospects for continued growth as the bourbon-distilling and drinking trend expands globally. How does one capitalize on this niche investment? They offer a roadmap. (02/2024)

It’s 2024, do you know how your industrial portfolio is poised to perform?

Stephanie Rodriguez, national director for industrial services at Colliers, oversees a complex network of warehouses, data centers, distribution centers and last-mile delivery hubs for the company. We ask about her outlook for industrial during 2024, including reshoring/nearshoring, speculative development, data centers, cold storage, the rise of in-house micro-fulfillment centers, construction starts and rent growth. (01/2024)