Data centers continue booming with no end in sight, as the largest cloud computing providers spend billions on expansion and data center REITs rack up impressive returns. Meanwhile, there are warnings about the folly of overemphasizing real estate benchmarks, and optimism in Los Angeles as it wins its bid to host another Olympic Games. It's all in the October 2017 edition of Institutional Real Estate Americas. The magazine’s editor, Loretta Clodfelter, joins us to discuss. (10/2017)

As the investment products available to retail investors expands, the Investment Program Association looks to make sense of the nomenclature used to identify those products. IPA chief executive Tony Chereso joins us to discuss the campaign. (09/2017)

Foreign immigration supports economic growth and real estate investment success, according to one of the lead stories in the September 2017 edition of Institutional Real Estate Americas. The magazine's editor and story's author, Loretta Clodfelter, elaborates.

Geoffrey Dohrmann and IREI celebrate their 30th anniversary with the publication of an anniversary magazine, a retrospective covering three decades in the evolution of the institutional real estate industry and U.S. business generally. The founder and CEO discusses the journey. (09/2017)

Richard Fleming, editor of Institutional Real Estate Europe, updates us on Brexit, the German federal election, Russia and the future of the continent. (09/2017)

With a trillion dollars of infrastructure needs pending in India, private investors have an opportunity to get involved with country committed to rapidly modernizing its economy and challenging China for economic supremacy in Asia. Rahul Mody, managing director and head of infrastructure at Ambit Corporate Finance, joins us from Mumbai to discuss. (09/2017)

Andrea Waitrovich, head of web content and editor of Institutional Real Estate Newsline, discusses the company's revamped website and its daily news feeds. (09/2017)

In his latest book, Ric Edelman, founder and executive chairman of Edelman Financial Services, makes the case that there is a technology threat to financial advisers — no, not robo-advisers — that no one is talking about. Edelman elaborates on the threat and what financial advisory firms need to do to meet the challenge. (09/2017)

Although wind and solar are today’s poster children for renewable energy, hydropower has been around much longer and boasts plants that have been operating reliably for more than 100 years, some of them with original equipment. What’s more, it can offer high rates of return, with most new hydropower being built today serving emerging markets with relatively high electricity prices and power demand growing in excess of 5 percent annually, 10 times the projected U.S. growth rate. Greg Morris, a principal at GLM Engineering, walks us through the opportunities. (08/2017)

Geoffrey Dohrmann, founder and CEO of Institutional Real Estate Inc., discusses the hiring of a new managing director of Institutional Investing in Infrastructure magazine, as well as some updates about the Institute for Real Estate Operating Companies (iREOC), the invitation-only club whose members (investors, managers and real estate operating companies) are seeking to form operating partnerships. (08/2017)