Tune in regularly to hear industry executives and thought leaders share their market perspectives and insights. In addition, keep abreast of industry trends and issues by listening to The Dohrmann Report, a monthly podcast with IREI chairman and CEO Geoffrey Dohrmann.
Featured this month is Paul Rose, who authored a piece in the September edition of The Institutional Real Estate Letter about the growing appetite for property investment among the world’s sovereign wealth funds. Rose is a professor of law and executive director of law and capital markets at Ohio State University. He is also a researcher of sovereign wealth funds. (10/2014)
Are emerging manager programs on the rise? What are the biggest obstacles to setting up these programs? And what skills or characteristics are possessed by emerging managers who pass muster with investors? Peter Braffman, managing director at GCM Grosvenor, assists investors with setting up emerging manager programs, and he vets emerging management firms brought under consideration. He joins us to discuss this crowded and much-coveted space. (10/2014)
Linda Assante, partner at Jasper Ridge Partners, discusses why investors are incorporating real assets into portfolios and what the benefits are to this approach. (10/2014)
Dean Egerter, principal at Harrison Street Real Estate Capital, discusses what types of healthcare properties Harrison Street Real Estate Capital invests in and describes the current market fundamentals and investment opportunities. He also covers how long-term demographic trends play into the outlook for healthcare and healthcare-related properties. (09/2013)
What are the latest trends in sustainability, "creative office" and "intelligent buildings?" What is driving the competition among emerging nations to build the tallest and grandest structures? And what is behind the resurgence in companies — such as Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook — building signature corporate headquarters? To answer those questions and others about modern architecture, we turn to Ross Wimer, head of one of the world's largest architecture practices at Los Angeles-based AECOM. (09/2014)
Robert Negrelli, consultant at Courtland Partners, discusses what allocation and commitment trends, as well as why some investors are flocking toward larger global opportunistic funds. (09/2014)
This month, Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., shares his perspectives on several topics discussed at the fall meeting of the IREI Editorial Advisory Board, including adjusting for risk, whether it is time for investors to emphasize debt or equity in their portfolios, and if the time is right to start tapping property markets in the euro zone in a bigger way. (09/2014)
Contributing reporter Mard Naman discusses the uneven performance of the office market Down Under, based on a story he reported for the Asia Pacific edition of The Institutional Real Estate Letter. (08/2014)
Which property type is most promising at this time in Latin America? Which one should investors regard with caution? What factor could put the region's economic emergence in greatest peril? What single factor is most apt to ensure a positive future? For answers to those questions we turn to Alfonso Munk, CIO in the region for Prudential Real Estate Investors. (08/2014)
Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., offers his outlook for the durability of the current real estate recovery, as well as his thoughts on record distributions to investors, CalPERS growing commitment to infrastructure and other real assets, the comeback of CMBS, and the wave of iconic corporate campuses being constructed in the United States, particularly by technology companies. (08/2014)