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June 30, 2022

40. 2022 Economic Outlook with Bob Fraser - What To Expect For The Rest of the Year

In this week's episode Bob Fraser discusses the future of inflation, CRE cap rates, housing sales volume and prices, if a recession is about to happen, and what these imply for investors. So if you're curious about where the ...

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June 16, 2022

39. [International Mini-Series] Investing In Emerging Markets W/ Ladislas Maurice

Ladislas Maurice , dubbed the “Wandering Investor,” called his corporate career quits to travel the world in search of investing opportunities. Focusing mostly on emerging and frontier markets, Ladislas’ has used investing to...

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June 9, 2022

38. Collectibles, Comic Books & Music Royalties - How to Evaluate Modern Alternatives With Stefan von Imhof

Stefan von Imhof is the co-founder of alts.co , and is an investor in “modern” alternatives. Stefan talks about investing in newer assets like collectibles, cultural assets, and music rights. Without a central, authoritative ...

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June 2, 2022

37. Passive Investor Spotlight #5: Buying Your Time Back w/ Justin Donald

Justin Donald , author of The Lifestyle Investor , has been named the “Investment World’s New Warren Buffett.” Justin joins Bob and Ben to talk about his transition from a business owner on a hamster wheel to a lifestyle inve...

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May 26, 2022

36. Is Retail Real Estate the Next Hot Asset Class? - Interview w/ Parker Webb

On the heels of our latest Top of Mind episode on retail real estate, this episode dives into a unique area of retail, neighborhood strip centers, with Parker Webb, FTW Investments CEO. Parker has worked in retail real estate...

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May 23, 2022

35. Top of Mind [New Series] – What Happened to the Retail Apocalypse?

What’s actually going on with retail real estate? For years, we’ve been seeing headlines declaring that retail real estate is dying, and e-commerce will win. We dive into some charts from a recent presentation we saw from a w...

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May 19, 2022

34. Investing In Rare Coins With Dana Samuelson

The collectible coin market is on fire. As a professional numismatist, Dana has been studying rare coins for over 40 years. On this episode, he shares about his background in the rare coins market, the economics behind owning...

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May 12, 2022

33. Transitioning from Private Equity to Private Debt W/ Jeremy Goff

In this episode, we sit down with Jeremy Goff, CEO of Hiram Capital, to talk about both the energy sector and the private credit space. Jeremy shares from his background working for Blackstone, the largest alternative asset m...

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May 5, 2022

32. Inflation, Cap Rates, The Fed... Are We Headed For Recession? Interview w/ John Chang

John Chang is the National Director of Research at Marcus & Millichap , one of the largest CRE brokerages in the country. John goes deep into the state of our economy, dissecting how the Fed’s response to circumstances will i...

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April 28, 2022

31. Where’s The Best Place To Invest $100K? Interview w/ Hunter Thompson

Hunter Thompson , the Managing Principal of Asym Capital , returns to join Bob and Ben in a discussion on the current state of the economy and where are the best places to invest. Listen in as they share why it’s important to...

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April 21, 2022

30. Scaling Real Estate And Finding The Opportunity - Interview w/ J Scott

J Scott is a former tech guy who accidentally fell into real estate. Starting with flipping 400+ houses, he focused his experience scaling businesses into scaling real estate. Now an operator of multifamily syndications, J sh...

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April 7, 2022

29. Real Estate Trends Deep Dive with Global Research Analyst Shifra Ansonoff - Pt. 2

We welcome Shifra Ansonoff , Global Head of Research at Preqin , back for another discussion, this time focused on a deep dive into the real estate trends. Given her macro-perspective, Shifra provides high-level data on the m...

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March 31, 2022

28. Betting Big On Retail Real Estate w/ Philip Block And Robert Levy

Though headlines touting the apocalypse of retail real estate have been frequent over the past few years, our guests today take a contrarian view. With the long-term impact of e-commerce changing consumers' buying preferences...

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March 24, 2022

27. The Future Of Alternatives From A Global Perspective w/ Shifra Ansonoff - Pt. 1

Shifra Ansonoff is the Global Head of Research at Preqin , the premier alternative investment data analytics firm, with more than 1,000 employees around the world. In this episode, Shifra shares in-depth data about the projec...

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March 17, 2022

26. Inside Look at Endowment Funds with Investment Director Greg Dowell, CFA

Greg Dowell, CFA is the Director of Investments of the Texas State Endowment System, and a 30-year veteran in alternative investments. In this episode, Greg talks about his experience taking an endowment he work for from 0% t...

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March 10, 2022

25. 2022 Housing Market Forecast w/ Nikolas Scoolis

Nikolas Scoolis is the Manager of Housing Economics at Zonda Research , the #1 provider of housing economic data in the U.S. In this episode, they dive deep into the supply/demand imbalance, what caused the massive run up in ...

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March 3, 2022

24. Where You Should Invest in a High-Inflation Environment

Inflation is not neutral. It’s a transfer of wealth from savers to borrowers. It’s a time where you can lose purchasing power of your money, or a time where your investments can benefit. How you fare depends on how you invest...

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Feb. 17, 2022

23. Passive Investor Spotlight #4 - High Tech Career to Mobile Home Parks w/ Todd Sulzinger

Todd Sulzinger started out with a high-powered career in Silicon Valley, but found he wanted more control over his life and what he did. When evaluating where to put some of his capital, he discovered mobile home parks, long ...

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Feb. 10, 2022

22. State of Gold: Passive Investing in Gold Streaming w/ David Garofalo

David Garofalo, former CEO of Goldcorp Inc, has 30 years of experience in the creation and growth of over 15 multi-billion dollar sustainable mining businesses across multiple continents, and has led the largest merger in gol...

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Feb. 3, 2022

21. Growing Your Wealth Through Owning Franchises - Interview w/ Erik Van Horn

Most of the ultra-wealthy became so by owning businesses. One proven way to own a business is through franchising. Erik Van Horn, franchising specialist and expert in multi-unit, multi-brand ownership as both a franchisee and...

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Jan. 27, 2022

20. Journey from Active to Passive Investor - Interview w/ Whitney Elkins-Hutten

How do you start generating income from your investments and how do you transition that into a flow of passive income? Ben Fraser and Jim Maffuccio are back with real estate maven and director of Investor Education at Passive...

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Jan. 20, 2022

19. The Definitive Breakdown Of REITs vs. Private REITs

Public REITs have been a popular way to invest in Real Estate since the 1970s, with around $1.4 trillion in investor cash. But ever since the JOBS Act passed in 2016, we have seen a flood of new real estate investment opportu...

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Jan. 13, 2022

18. Why You Need To Think About Asset Protection To Safeguard Your Wealth w/ Kevin Day

One of the nation's top asset-protection attorneys, Kevin Day, shares the keys to asset protection and privacy planning that the ultra-wealthy use, but that all can access easily. Kevin dives into irrevocable and offshore tru...

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Dec. 23, 2021

17. Podcast Recap - Our Top Highlights So Far

As we close out the year, Bob and Ben take a few minutes to share some of their highlights from interviews on the podcast since launch. If you're new to the podcast, this episode will give you a quick peek into some of our be...

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