4. Connecting Commercial Success & Community Revitalization with Inna Khidekel, Partner, Bridge Investment Group

The Dealmakers’ Edge with A.Y. Strauss

Passion. Alignment. Ambition. Hard Work. Featured guest Inna Khidekel tells host Aaron Strauss that these elements – along with a heart of service, a head for business, and an entrepreneurial spirit – are at the core of her own impressive career and the incredible success of her firm, Bridge Investment Group.
Learn how Bridge, under Inna’s leadership, became the revolutionary ambassador for integrating environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) factors into profitable investment strategies. Discover how identifying the disconnect between potential tenants, the real estate industry, and government subsidies inspired the investment firm to prioritize the advancement of true social and economic mobility, and, ultimately, became the basis of the firm’s record for transformative investing.
Other topics include:

• The emergence, impact, and continued relevance of ESG investment strategies and the variety of metrics Bridge uses to measure success;
• How being an owner-operator offers an edge in today’s efficient real estate market and which niches Inna believes remain untapped;
• Why Inna thinks current capital flows are supporting the real estate market despite the compression of a variety of non-property asset classes;
• How demographic-driven sectors – affordable housing, multifamily, senior housing – are capturing the interest of savvy investors; and
• Why Inna advises new grads to join a fast-growing firm in a fast-growing industry and to embrace the opportunity to learn anything.

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