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Mr Joshua Daitch, speaking at Real Estate Investment World USA 2010

Mr Joshua Daitch,
Senior Managing Director, Institutional Real Estate Multi-Manager Group
Mesirow Financial

Mr. Daitch brings nearly 20 years of real estate experience to Mesirow Financial's Institutional Real Estate ("MFIRE") Multi-Manager group. Prior to joining Mesirow Financial in 2001, Mr. Daitch was responsible for due diligence and transaction execution for over $10 billion in domestic and international real estate and loan portfolios acquired on behalf of Goldman Sachs’ various Whitehall Funds. Mr. Daitch began his career with Goldman Sachs’ joint venture with the J.E. Robert Cos. and helped start the Archon Group in 1996. He founded Archon Europe and was one of the founding team members for the Trillium Group in London which was formed to manage the 17 million square foot, 840-property portfolio for the British Department of Social Security. Mr. Daitch received his master of business administration degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a bachelor of business administration degree from the University of Michigan. Mr. Daitch is a member of the MFIRE Investment Committee. He is also a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), the American Real Estate Society (ARES), the Urban Land Institute (ULI), and the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) where he serves as the co-chair for the International Real Estate Investment Affinity Group.

Appearing:

Day one: Thursday, December 2, 2010

2.45pm

Keynote panel session: Will institutional investors start allocating to real estate again?

Have the scars healed or will institutional investors continue to be risk averse and reluctant to invest in real estate?
Capturing pensions’ interest: where are they investing and why? How much longer can they sit on their money without generating returns?
What can funds do to garner favor from institutional investors?

Mr Joshua Daitch,

Senior Managing Director, Institutional Real Estate Multi-Manager Group,
Mesirow Financial

Mr Jerry Davis,

Chairman,
City of New Orleans

Mr Rodgers Harshbarger,

Associate Director,
UNC Management Company Inc.

Ms Alisa Mall,

Associate Director of Investments - Real estate,
Carnegie Corporation

Mr Richard Moore,

Trustee, Investment Committee Member,
Wake Forest University Endowment

Mr Aqil Khan,

Head of Indirect Property, Zurich,
Aberdeen Asset Management