Kingbird’s Senior Managing Director, Kenneth Munkacy recently had the privilege of interviewing William (Bill) Schwab, who ran a $100 billion real estate portfolio for the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), the largest sovereign wealth fund.
The COVID-19 pandemic represents the latest black swan event, and the U.S. is spending money quickly to provide support where needed. From a private markets perspective, the current economic crisis is really unlike any other. The unique factors include the globalization of finance and trade is much more prominent, the speed of information and data exchanged is heightened, the heart of this crisis is medical, not just economic, and we are in a very polarized political landscape which only adds to the stress.
Antonio Ferré Rangel authored an article for the 2019 Wealth Management Mid Year Outlook about the role that real estate (and multifamily real estate in particular) can play in protecting investment portfolios against inflation in an economic downturn.