Institutional Real Estate, Inc. Podcast

Investors and experts from around the world will gather in Boston for the 11th annual IREI infrastructure conference in June. High on the agenda are fundraising, investment strategies, technology and the hardening infrastructure systems to withstand increasingly violent storms. Drew Campbell, editor of Institutional Investing in Infrastructure (a sister publication of Real Assets Adviser), provides an update.

Investors and experts from around the world will gather in Boston for the 11th annual IREI infrastructure conference in June. High on the agenda are fundraising, investment strategies, technology and the hardening infrastructure systems to withstand increasingly violent storms. Drew Campbell, editor of Institutional Investing in Infrastructure, provides an update.

Did you know that the President Nixon nearly passed guarantee minimum income legislation in the early ’70s? Or that the policy can significantly reduce the size of the U.S. government? That a 36 percent flat tax could pay for the program while also balancing the federal budget? Or that an experimental version of the program is afoot in a region of Canada? Charles Clark, a Catholic economist at St. John’s University, joins us to cover these topics and many others.

Did you know that the President Nixon nearly passed guarantee minimum income legislation in the early ’70s? Or that the policy can significantly reduce the size of the U.S. government? That a 36 percent flat tax could pay for the program while also balancing the federal budget? Or that an experimental version of the program is afoot in a region of Canada? Charles Clark, a Catholic economist at St. John’s University, joins us to cover these topics and many others.

What is a Dream City? Where do our urban environments come from? How have they shaped us? How do we, in turn, shape them? We take up these matters with Wade Graham, author of the new book "Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World."

What is a Dream City? Where do our urban environments come from? How have they shaped us? How do we, in turn, shape them? We take up these matters with Wade Graham, author of the new book "Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World."

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., discusses some real estate trends making headlines, as well as the energy situation unfolding in the United States and around the globe.

What exactly is the endowment model of investing? Why are an increasing number of RIAs gravitating toward its approach to three-dimensional portfolio construction? Prateek Mehrotra, chief investment officer of Endowment Wealth Management, joins us to explain.

Two acronyms — one old (FIRPTA), one new (PATH) — are on the lips of tax lawyers and foreign investors interested in targeting U.S. real estate in a more tax-friendly way. Loretta Clodfelter, editor of Institutional Real Estate Americas, explains the expected impact of the legislative changes.

How do individual investors access farmland as an investment? How does investing in farmland compare to investing in the stock market? What kind of returns can farmland investors anticipate? What trends are making farmland an attractive investment? U.S. Trust specialty asset and farm executives Dennis Moon and John Taylor provide the answers.

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., discusses immigration's financial impact, capital flight from China, sliding bank stocks, foreign investment in U.S. real estate, and the still beleaguered domestic housing market.

What are the biggest mistakes forecasters make when offering their prognostications? What are the two critical, interrelated questions forecasters must ask to improve their forecasts? Why is forecasting more dangerous than ever, even though the information available to investors is the most reliable it has ever been? Hamel Shah, a partner with Azimuth Global Partners, explains.

Jeff Kanne — CEO of National Real Estate Advisors and the co-author of an article that appeared in both Real Assets Adviser magazine and Institutional Real Estate Americas magazine — joins us to discuss the driverless-car revolution and his perspectives on how it is destined to cause mass disruption in the real estate business and force investors to rethink the financial commitments they make.

What is the "oasis within"? What is the world's "strangest gift of all"? What lesson is learned by looking into the opposite end of a telescope? And what applications do these and other lessons have to leadership and business? Tom Morris, who for 15 years was the most popular professor at the University of Notre Dame, has just authored his 21st book titled "The Oasis Within" and joins us to answer those and other questions.

What is the "oasis within"? What is the world's "strangest gift of all"? What lesson is learned by looking into the opposite end of a telescope? And what applications do these and other lessons have to leadership and business? Tom Morris, who for 15 years was the most popular professor at the University of Notre Dame, has just authored his 21st book titled "The Oasis Within" and joins us to answer those and other questions.