Hubert Aarts, co-portfolio manager for Impax Asset Management, a firm whose water investment strategy includes positions in about 250 companies with a combined market capitalization of more than $800 billion, comes on the program to discuss his perspectives on how investors can capitalize on the precious natural resource.

2016 was the biggest year ever for commitments to student housing, with more than $10 billion pumped into this niche property sector. Why is the property type so hot, and what type of due diligence is required of student housing properties and portfolios? Michael Orsak, senior vice president of investments at Campus Advantage, one of the 10 largest student housing owners and operators in the United States, joins us to talk about why the student housing is so hot among investors, as well as the particulars of due diligence with regard to student housing. (0617)

A look back at the recently completed Mick Law Energy & Global Alts Symposium in Dallas. Bryan Mick and Brad Updike of Mick Law offer a retrospective on the symposium, the sponsors who presented, and the current climate for operating and investing in the oil and gas space. (06/2017)

What do you get in a single-family home priced at $20 million to $60 million? How about all-organic building materials, a LEED Platinum rating, lighting systems sensitive to human circadian rhythms, and a bullet- and blast-proof “safe floor”? (No, not a safe room, a safe floor.) And what kinds of new technologies and features are on the horizon for ultra-luxury homes? Paul Rabinovitch, executive vice president of Troon Pacific, a builder of ultra-luxury spec homes in the San Francisco joins us to discuss this niche segment. (06/2017)

The development of properly updated infrastructure to both deliver and store clean water is a basic — and now critical — need that has been neglected for the past 40 years. So writes Burl East, CEO of American Assets Capital Advisers, in the June edition of Real Assets Adviser, an i3 sister publication. He joins us to discuss the dimensions of the problem and why it exists. (06/2017)

The development of properly updated infrastructure to both deliver and store clean water is a basic — and now critical — need that has been neglected for the past 40 years. So writes Burl East, CEO of American Assets Capital Advisers, in the June edition of Real Assets Adviser, an i3 sister publication. He joins us to discuss the dimensions of the problem and why it exists. (06/2017)

Imagine having to harvest more food in the next 40 years than humanity has harvested during the previous 10,000 years. That is exactly the situation outlined by author Joel Bourne in his book “The End of Plenty.” With an expanding world population projected to hit 9 billion, tightening global grain supplies, and the prospect of climate change rendering half of global farmland useless by the end of the century, the situation for farmers and investors is urgent. Mr. Bourne outlines the situation and some possible ways out of the looming crisis. (06/2017)

Francisco Luis, a CPA and tax partner with Grant Thornton in the firm's San Juan, Puerto Rico office, joins us to discuss Puerto Rico’s tax incentive Acts 20 and 22. The tax incentive laws, enacted three years ago, are designed to lure wealthy American investors to invest in the United States' so-called 51st state to help revive the island’s economy. (06/2017)

Francisco Luis, a CPA and tax partner with Grant Thornton in the firm's San Juan, Puerto Rico office, joins us to discuss Puerto Rico’s tax incentive Acts 20 and 22. The tax incentive laws, enacted three years ago, are designed to lure wealthy American investors to invest in the United States' so-called 51st state to help revive the island’s economy. (06/2017)

What U.S. city is at greatest risk to climate change? What city has the lowest risk? Jeff Kanne, CEO of National Real Estate Advisors, discusses a new risk tool the company developed to assess the local and regional threats posed by climate change. Kanne tells us how it was built, what it found and which markets his company is now looking to avoid to protect its real estate portfolio from climatic change and property devaluation. (05/2017)