The Wall Street Journal Investment Real Estate Forum Master Series

 

Chicago
September 24, 2008
8:30am - 1:30pm

Jenner & Block Conference Center
330 N. Wabash Avenue
Chicago, IL

IN A CLIMATE OF SIGNIFICANT CHANGE, The Wall Street Journal and Marcus & Millichap invite you to participate in a special forum focusing exclusively on real estate investments.

Fourm Highlights :

• Capital markets in the context of aftershocks and recovery
• Global and emerging market investing opportunities
• Impact of the economic slowdown on property valuations
• Market sector investments: industrial, retail, office, multifamily

 

 

7:30–8:30am

Registration/Continental Breakfast

Forum Moderator

• Donald I. Resnick, Partner, Jenner & Block, LLP

8:30-9:00am

The Current Climate

• Hessam Nadji, Managing Director, Marcus & Millichap
  

9:30–10:00am

State of Capital Markets: Aftershock & Recovery

• Karen B. Case, President, Commercial Real Estate, The PrivateBank
• Stephen R. Quazzo, Chief Executive Officer, Transwestern Investment
• Lawrence J. Vogler, President, The Prime Group
• G. Scott Clemons, Managing Director, Brown Brothers Harriman

Coffee Break

10:00–10:30am

Global and Emerging Market Opportunities; The U.S. and Abroad

• Quintin E. Primo, III, Chairman & CEO, Capri Capital Partners
• Wenceslao Bunge, MD, Head of Real Estate, Credit Suisse Securities
• Christopher Fiegen, Chief Investment Officer, Equity International
• Eugene F. Reilly, President, The Americas, AMB Property Corporation
• Howard Margolis, Managing Director, Black Creek Capital

10:30–11:15am

Factors Driving Market Sector Investments
 Retail, Industrial, Multifamily, Office

• T. Patrick Duncan, President & CEO, USAA Real Estate
• Ronald B. Grais, Partner, Jenner & Block LLP
• Donald A. Miller, CEO, Piedmont Office Realty Trust
• Robert S. Aisner, President, Behringer Harvard Holdings
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11:15-11:30am

Coffee Break

11:30– 12:00N

Healthcare Real Estate: Financing a Growing Industry

• Debra A. Cafaro, President & CEO, Ventas
• Meredith Oppenheim, Senior Vice President, Savills
• Curt Schaller, Sennior Managing Director, GE Healthcare Financial Services
• John Cobb, President & CEO, Senior Lifestyle Corporation

12:00pm

Luncheon

12:30pm

Keynote Speaker

• Diane C. Swonk, Senior Managing Director & Chief Economist, Meisrow Financial

Guest Speaker

• Constance Mitchell Ford, Real Estate Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal

1:30 – 2:00pm

Networking Reception