EisnerAmper Podcast

Capital Raising During COVID-19

In this episode of Engaging Alternatives Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Senior Manager, Publications, EisnerAmper speaks with Greg Royce, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Maximus Long Short Equity Management, a low-net exposure industrials and materials focused hedge fund. Royce discusses how his firm experienced robust growth in assets under management amid a challenging year of capital raising for the hedge fund industry and how his firm was successful garnering investor allocations in a virtual world as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The Power & Responsibility of a Leader: Practical Steps to Own Your Impact

Nkrumah Pierre, Director for EisnerAmper’s Friends of the Firm Program and leadership coach and strategist Raabia Shafi, discuss the opportunity to level up your personal leadership with practical self awareness. Raabia will offer three introspective exercises for boosting empathy for yourself and your team. These techniques will help you get clarity on your intentions, get a pulse on what it feels like to be on the receiving end of your leadership style, and tap into the resources in your personal and professional networks to help you evolve. 

The Power & Responsibility of a Leader: The Theory of Leadership

Nkrumah Pierre, Director for EisnerAmper’s Friends of the Firm Program and leadership coach and strategist Raabia Shafi, discuss how leaders set the tone for the culture of an organization and how you can take ownership of the way you impact your team and customers. Raabia will share how humans have a primal instinct to follow leaders, which makes it even more important for us to cultivate self-awareness and empathy. She'll also share her perspective on the difference between being good at your job and being a good leader, and how you don't have to be born with certain traits to be successful.   

Not-for-Profit Real Estate Redevelopment Opportunities

In this episode, Candice Meth, National Leader for EisnerAmper's Not-for-Profit Services Practice and Ron Dukes, Manager in EisnerAmper’s Private Business Services Group, interview Patrick O’Sullivan, a Partner at Herrick, Feinstein LLP. During the conversation, they discuss several innovative ways that not-for-profit organizations can leverage their real estate holdings to generate new revenue streams while possibly upgrading their facilities and offsetting the costs to maintain them.

Planning for Real Estate Families

Planning is the key to success, particularly for our Real Estate Families.  Join Lisa Knee and Lisë Stewart as they provide a brief overview of the importance of planning ahead and the ways in which this video series is designed to help you, as a business owner, to be fully prepared for your own success!

CFIUS: Regulations Impacting Foreign Investment in U.S. Real Estate

Lisa Knee, Real Estate Partner, and Michael Rose, National Practice Leader of CFIUS Advisory Services discuss the final regulations issued by the Treasury Department implementing most of the 2018 Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA). Section 802 dealing with real estate transactions and Section 800 dealing with acquisitions of U.S. companies in other areas that may have national security concerns are the focus of this episode. 

Raising Capital When Everyone Is Scared: Do Investors Really Buy Low?

As asset managers face the challenges of raising capital in today’s environment, we look to Julia Mord, an investment officer at a major university endowment, for her perspective on asset allocation, manager selection, and market conditions. We also explore reasons why even institutional investors with infinite time horizons, may be sellers of risk in an uncertain market environment.

COVID-19 and the Flight to the 'Burbs - Part 2

Darren Griffith, a director in EisnerAmper’s Real Estate Group, and Tim Schuster, a senior manager in the Private Business Services Group, discuss updated trends in the commercial and residential real estate markets. They explore how COVID-19 has escalated the trend of families and individuals moving out of large cities, the tax impacts of moving to a different state from where your employer is located, and the potential ripple effect on the cost of housing.

The Pandemic’s Impact on Multifamily Investing

In this installment of Breaking Ground, Darren Griffith, a Director in EisnerAmper’s Real Estate Services Group, interviews Michael Cohan, Managing Partner of Opus North, a multifamily real estate investment company. Acquisitions, valuations and investor relations are the focus of the discussion, as Darren and Michael explore how multifamily investors have seen these factors impacted by COVID -19.

Innovation In Private Equity Using Structured Financial Products

In this episode of Engaging Alternatives Spotlight, Elana Margulies-Snyderman, Senior Manager, Publications, EisnerAmper speaks with Christopher Mizer, CEO and President of Vivaris Capital, a private equity group based in San Diego that invests in and acquires a range of middle-market businesses across various industries including healthcare and life sciences, real estate and technology.