Videos & Podcasts

Even as Congress is expected to soon legalize hemp as a crop — with implications for activities ranging from medical treatments and construction materials to fabrics and investment opportunities — cannabis businesses have effectively been shut out of the banking business, leaving them with piles of cash and few effective ways to secure and manage it. Our guest, Nathaniel Gurien, founder of FINCANN, which connects pot-related business with the so-called Cannabis Banking Financial Network, joins us to discuss those issues.…

One of the most important themes in global real estate investing has been the focus on sustainability — or environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors. Although most managers have developed talking points about ESG factors, few have attempted to develop a quantitative methodology to assess and rank companies according to their ESG behavior. Our guest, Jana Sehnalova, CEO and CIO of La Francaise Forum Securities, talks about a new index to do exactly that for global real estate securities. (07/2018)

Julianna Ingersoll, CEO and president at RREEF Property Trust, discusses the three main reasons why core real estate is an attractive income play. (07/2018)

Jeremy Gutsche, CEO and author of Trend Hunter, gives highlights from his keynote at the VIP Americas conference about how to get better and faster in two different ways. (07/2018)

What are the five stages of AI? What is our current stage of development? How are Amazon and other organizations using AI? And will advanced forms of AI pose a threat to human beings, as some futurists have warned? Our guest, Bahram Motamedian, counts AI as one of his areas of expertise. Officially, he is an executive managing director of portfolio management and chief strategy officer at USAA Real Estate. He shares his perspectives with us during this interview. (07/2018)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate Inc., talks about the state of infrastructure investing on the heels of VIP Infrastructure (formerly known as Institutional Investing in Infrastructure) in Toronto, which brought together those actively — or contemplating — investing in the infrastructure asset class. (07/2018)

Building owners are rolling out a variety of tools that can improve operational efficiency. Architects can use virtual reality to model designs — saving time and money. Online platforms have given landlords new ways to manage leases. All of this means there may never be a greater time to launch a real estate technology startup. Loretta Clodfelter, editor of Institutional Real Estate Americas, elaborates on the topic, featured in the July/August 2018 edition of the magazine. (07/2018)

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)

There is a trio of forces changing the way growing European cities are being developed. Just what those primary forces are, how cities are adapting to these new trends, and the things investors need to be keen to are the subjects of our discussion with Marek Handzel, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe. (06/2018)

Jo Allen, chief executive at Frogmore, discusses the United Kingdom investment market characteristics and opportunities. (06/2018)