Front & Center is a podcast produced by CenterSquare Investment Management, providing insights and perspectives on commercial real estate investment across the public and private markets through timely and relevant conversations with Firm thought leaders about the trends and drivers impacting the global real estate asset class.
Episode #87: Risk, Resilience, and the Human Side of Real Estate
For long-term investors, the most important risks are oftenthe ones that are hardest to predict. As climate, geopolitical, and operational risks grow more connected, how do real estate investors separate signal from noise to price risk appropriately? This episode of the Front & Center podcast, recorded in Amsterdam, takes on that question.
Senior Investment Strategist and Global Head ofSustainability Uma Moriarity is joined by Sunita Mahant, Managing Director, Risk Management and Sustainability at La Caisse, to discuss what risk foresight really means, why climate risk is investment risk, and how to approach thechallenge of quantifying it. Uma and Sunita also explore the infrastructure and community risks investors may be underestimating, the role of independent risk oversight, and why the human skills of critical thinking and judgment mattermore than ever.
9 Oct 2026
Episode #86: What the SoCal Industrial Market Signals for the Broader Sector
This episode of the Front & Center podcast zeros in onone of the largest industrial markets in the world: Southern California. As a microcosm of the wider industrial landscape, this economically diverse market provides insight into the sector’s future.
Laura Clark, CEO of Rexford Industrial, a REIT focused onindustrial real estate in infill Southern California, joins host and Senior Investment Strategist Uma Moriarity to share her observations, from where the industrial sector is in the real estate cycle to the impact of retail and supply chain shifts. Uma and Laura explore the shift from e-commerce to omnichannel retail, what tenants now want from their buildings, the role of AI and technology in the supply chain, and why the basics of real estate (location, functionality, and supply) still drive long-term value.
25 Sept 2026
Episode #85: Reading between the Earnings Calls: REIT Debrief
Coming out of REIT earnings season and a run of industryconferences, there's a lot to cover about where the REIT sector stands today. This episode of the Front & Center podcast shares some of the highlights and the implications for the near-term.
Senior Investment Strategist and Global Head ofSustainability Uma Moriarity is joined by CenterSquare Listed Securities Portfolio Managers Patrick Wilson and Rob Goldstein, to break down what they're hearing straight from the CEOs and CFOs they've met with on the road. Patrick,Rob, and Uma discuss why REITs are no longer a pure interest rate proxy, the supply picture shaping industrial and life sciences recovery, the political headwinds facing data centers and what they mean for incumbents, and why REITs' capital markets advantage is becoming more pronounced in an elevated interest rate environment.
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