Forum Investment Group's Jay Miller describes how alt investments provide opportunities for average investors to diversify portfolios by accessing asset classes previously limited to institutional investors.
Commercial real estate has mirrored the mixed signals seen across the economy and broad capital markets. Decreased availability of capital continues to explain the low transaction activity and obscure price discovery.
As the commercial real estate market becomes increasingly globalized and as diversification—by market, by sector, by strategy type—has grown in importance, a new global real estate performance index has been created to help real estate investors make informed decisions about how to allocate their money within that global framework.
Real estate managers’ assets under management fell by 2.9% during the year ended June 30, reported Pensions & Investments. S&P might downgrade Brookfield Real Estate to junk status because of its high maturing debt loan, according to Bisnow. These are among today’s must reads from around the commercial real estate industry.