As managers bring back employees into the physical office en-masse, they should embrace 6 DEI principles as part of their firm's daily practice. Belay Investment Group explains the tactics.

Firms are having to rethink strategies for attracting and retaining talent, for succession planning and for ensuring the longevity of their organization within a growing industry. NAREIM and Ferguson speak to BGO, Clarion, Green Cities & Waterton.

Real estate investment management net AUM growth slowed to 6% in 2020 - the first slowdown since 2016 for the NAREIM Global Management Survey. Read the key takeaways here.

John McClelland, former real estate head at LACERA predicts LPs will get more active on DEI and collect more data - and will push for improvements over time among their managers.

How do you report asset and investment-level performance and attribution? What and how do you communicate that to investors, consistently? NCREIF's new task force on asset-level reporting best practices has been launched to find the low-hanging fruit and what the benefit to investors and managers will be. They chat with NAREIM.

Many across the industry are gearing up for an exciting 2021 on the heels of the roller coaster that shaped 2020. Expect a focus on niche plays, such as cold storage, data centers, affordability; sustainability and the role of technology. With The CenterCap Group

All organizations, regardless of size, should include a chief data officer or head of analytics to be competitive in the near future. Safeguarding proprietary data - for firms both large and small - will be imperative. With Ferguson Partners

There is no substitute for walking the ground, and post-Covid the focus is more than ever on strong operating partners. NAREIM Fellow Anh Duc Tran of Noerthwestern talks with GPs about the realities of due diligence and operations post-Covid.

As available office supply outweighs demand, occupiers will have their pick of the litter — adding greater downside for the losers, but creating greater upside potential for those buildings that are best positioned to capture a larger slice of what looks to be a smaller pie. American Realty explains the post-Covid research on US office.

Class of 2021-22 strongest field yet – with a total of 68 candidates from 11 schools, up from 45 nominations in 2020.

21% of managers earmark June as the date for most employees to return to the office, 26% look to July or August and third eye September for a majority return, says NAREIM Return to the Office survey.

Managers who want to pass investors’ ESG sniff test should focus on implementing strategies and showing data-backed proof. With Carbon Lighthouse.

From rooftop leasing, 5G, centralized wi-fi networks and fiber management, managing building technology can increase NOI. With Partner Engineering

While the real estate industry should finally become more efficient post-Covid, local knowledge and experience still trumps technology in producing outsized returns and best-in-class real estate investment managers. By Fulcrum Global Investors.

Bailard challenges the urban myth that CBD office provides higher nominal and relative returns over suburban assets presenting a comprehensive analysis of income, appreciation and total returns by market - and highlighting the missed opportunity.

For Bouwinvest, ESG data is an investment prerequisite and its global standardization an industry goal. But that's not the only place they're pushing managers. Robert Wagenaar speaks to Juniper Square about automation, Python and its data vision.

ANREV, INREV, NAREIM, NCREIF, PREA, REALPAC and ULI join forces with Ferguson Partners to launch the Global Real Estate DEI Survey on September 8

As we look to our post-Covid future, societal, racial, health inequities will be highlighted more and more. Calls to action — from our tenants, from our investors and our employees — will grow. Our challenge today is how to address them.

Controlled environment agriculture has the solutions to significant food production and environmental issues. Now it just needs the capital with Jacob Tannenbaum, Barclay Fellow.

Amazon does have a glass ceiling in terms of its e-commerce growth - and will need bricks and mortar. So what does retail in the future look like? Nuveen's Manuel Martin explains it's about retail as a service, pop-up, necessity and omni-channel.