A true real estate secondaries market needs to be developed to give LPs greater control over their portfolios, says Jim Valente of MSCI.

The average size of a fund close in 2015 was $627M, a record high for private equity real estate. Yet, it masks a troubling trend.

Operators shouldn’t be blinded by the real estate blind pool and consider raising LP capital through allocators and programmatic JVs as they look to become emerging investment managers.

U.S. endowments just suffered their worst performance in three years. Here are nine questions every investor should ask about their asset allocation policy.

Emerging managers and operators too often overlook their back office functions—and staffing needs—in the search for LP capital.

Many institutional investors argue there’s been a permanent shift in cross-border capital flows targeting U.S. commercial real estate, and any slowdown in Chinese capital inflows is merely part of the ebb and flow of real estate capital markets.

Video on the shift from Defined Benefit to Defined Contribution plans discussed by George Pandaleon of Inland Institutional Capital Partners.