Real estate is not about buildings, it’s about place-making and monetizing the density of people, says NAREIM CEO Gunnar Branson. To do that, GPs need to have better data.

Hauke Brede, chief risk officer for Allianz Real Estate, discusses looking at risk profiles worldwide, and the advantages the firm has over the competition.

As capital rushes into target-date funds, defined-contribution plan sponsors are looking to manage risks and diversify, putting private real estate on their investment radar.

With just one week until Privcap’s Real Estate Game Change conference in Chicago, Colony Capital’s chief investment officer, Kevin Traenkle, shares his thoughts on game-changers that could reshape the institutional real estate market.

Investor appetite for real estate in core cities is at record levels, and The Townsend Group’s Prashant Tewari says it’s time for a global diversification strategy.

This report, produced in partnership with RSM, taps into PrivcapRE’s extensive network of experts who provide comprehensive intelligence on the issues facing dealmakers, investors, and advisors as they confront the challenge of finding relative value in highly competitive property markets.

Jeff Jacobson, CEO, Americas at LaSalle Investment Management, a private equity real estate firm with over $56B in AUM, will be a keynote speaker at Privcap Media’s Real Estate Game Change conference in Chicago.

Drew Ierardi, senior portfolio manager of private markets at Exelon, urges GPs to think more creatively about fund structures and investment periods

Core real estate continues to provide very good risk-adjusted returns for investors, says Zurich Alternative Asset Managements’s head of U.S. real estate, Sean Bannon.

Anthony Breault, senior portfolio manager at the State of Oregon Treasury, explains how he invests for the long term in real estate, the challenges of redeploying capital in rising markets, and how JVs and open-ended funds are helping the pension achieve those goals.

TruAmerica Multifamily CEO Bob Hart explains why he prefers the backing of patient capital in today’s Class B multifamily market.

As institutional investors eye a maturing real estate cycle, many are asking how they can be more dynamic with their asset allocation tools. PrivcapRE spoke to New Mexico Educational Retirement Board about the challenges of being a more active investor, and how co-investments will play an increasingly critical role for the pension.

Middle Eastern capital sources are deeper, becoming more sophisticated and taking a ‘rifle-shot’ approach to investing in international real estate, says Piyush Bhardwaj of CoInvestment Capital Partners.

GPs are urged to be more realistic about fund returns by changing their target for each successive fundraise, to reflect changing market conditions.

Returns from value-added and opportunistic real estate funds have been exceptional and could continue through 2018. But a deceleration is in the cards, says an expert PrivcapRE panel.

LPs in value-added and opportunistic RE funds should demand GPs report unlevered returns, a panel of performance experts tells PrivapRE.

Diversification in real estate has fundamentally changed, says Courtland’s Michael Humphrey, and even the largest investor can end up with a “lumpy” portfolio.

Siguler Guff’s James Corl tells PrivcapRE about the firm’s ability to shut down a fund’s investment period and cap fund sizes.