The Performance and Portfolio issue offers readers an insight into the strategies of some of real estate’s most sophisticated institutional investors. It is a can’t-miss report for serious participants in the private real estate sector.

Investors should brace themselves for a slowdown in core net returns, but will see growing momentum in value-added returns, say experts from Cambridge, PREA and Crossroads.

Experts from Cambridge, PREA and Crossroads delve into benchmarking value-added and opportunistic real estate funds – what works and what doesn’t.

Madison International Realty President and Founder Ron Dickerman on why he thinks rents are rising and higher interest rates are the biggest threat to the market today.

Higher going-in cap rate markets do not pay, argues TIAA-CREF’s Martha Peyton. Lower yielding markets deliver higher total returns over longer-term, she explains.

2009 will be real estate’s best vintage year but only a few will benefit. Experts from Cambridge, PREA and Crossroads discuss real estate vintage year performance, the winners and the losers.

Experts from Cambridge, PREA and Crossroads delve into benchmarking value-added and opportunistic real estate funds – what works and what doesn’t.

US investors to significantly grow foreign RE portfolios, but it’s about longer hold periods – and vehicles to match – as they seek income, as well as total, returns.

Experts from W. P. Carey, AXA Real Estate and Real Capital Analytics discuss the U. S. market, rental growth assumptions in 2014 and insights into whether cap rates will expand, or continue to compress.

Jack Taylor of Prudential Real Estate Investors on where to find relative value—and where not to—in mezzanine debt, why second-tier markets are attractive, and which European countries to look at.

An expert conversation with Alan James about Yardi’s technological solutions for real estate firms and where the industry will see future innovation.

Experts from Yardi, CBRE and Taurus discuss NOI growth in 2014, being paid a premium for vacancy and the challenge of tenant renewals for older properties.

The Pan-Latin Strategy: Tom Heneghan, of emerging-markets specialists Equity International, discusses the group’s presence in Brazil and Colombia and the room for growth in both economies.

Class A offices, liquidity and lease terms in Warsaw. W. P. Carey’s Jeffrey Lefleur describes the firm’s latest acquisition in Poland.

Our panel of experts from W. P. Carey, AXA Real Estate and Real Capital Analytics explore the markets ripe for sales, growing appetite for portfolio sales and opportunities for spread investors.

W. P. Carey’s appetite for secondary transactions looks set to grow, says Kathleen Barthmaier, describing the firm’s $23m Avnet deal in Phoenix, Arizona.

Robert Lieber of C-III Capital Partners gives a macro look at the real estate market, including the impact of Fed moves, where rates are going, and what areas are bouncing back.

Jeff Edison of Phillips Edison talks about transforming a stalled 16-story, partially completed development, taken out of REO, into a leading retail center with Saks as anchor tenant.