Japanese investors are looking overseas once more, and are set to target real estate. Charles Haase of Tokyu Livable says that capital will ‘change the world’.

Leading real estate veterans offer their insights into potential game-changers for the industry in 2014.

Rising interest rates will have a significant impact on commercial real estate in 2014, but it is the unprecedented volume of cross-border capital that will most fundamentally change the industry.

David Hodes of Hodes Weill & Associates says this year has been the return of the mega fund, as investors look at them as a way to deploy capital and build scale.

Fundraising in Europe? Trying to diversify the investor base with international capital? Mayer Brown’s Matthew Posthuma offers advice on how and when to structure efficiently.

General David Petraeus shares his analysis of global trends and discusses his work at KKR Global Institute with Vance Serchuk.

LPs need to compare their closed-ended fund investments but have few tools to do the job. NCREIF talks about developing an index for value-added real estate strategies.

Crosswater Realty Advisors president Ted Leary on how to choose the right manager and achieve alignment.

Recession-resistant, cash flow strong and growing demand. Why Albert Rabil of Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors believes it’s also time to be a seller of student housing.

Albert Rabil of Kayne Anderson Real Estate Advisors talks about the Aston Gardens portfolio acquisition, one of the largest senior living transactions in the US in 2013.

Can technology change the way private real estate managers raise capital? Joseph Stecher of RealConnex argues it already is.

Investing in, and getting traction as, an emerging real estate manager. Our panel of investors and experts explores the equity landscape for the next generation of GPs, portfolio benefits and managers that give up too soon.

The work involved in backing an emerging manager isn’t insubstantial, say Aberdeen Asset Management. But it can reap dividends for investors in terms of performance and diversification.

An advisor to some of the world’s largest institutional investors, Crosswater Realty president Ted Leary admits backing the next generation of GPs is like finding a needle in the haystack. But he’s still a believer in the space.

LPs don’t bat an eyelid at investing in international equities and bonds. Why should real estate be any different, asks Jack Foster of Franklin Templeton Real Asset Advisors.

Real estate is about to be disrupted; interest rates, technology, demographic changes, according to Doug Poutasse of Bentall Kennedy.

KKR’s Head of Real Estate warns there isn’t enough NOI growth to offset rising cap rates in core.

Jeffrey Lefleur discusses two W. P. Carey real estate deals in the Netherlands.