Citywire Private Assets Retreat, Austin 2026

The current real estate landscape is rebounding from the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing rapid upward interest-rate cycle. With opportunities ripe in the battle-tested real-estate debt market, the lower middle market remains fragmented, allowing opportunistic investors the chance to find strong deal flow in real estate credit.

Workshop Objective:
~1.    Introduce lower middle market real estate credit
2.    Overview of boutique firm with deep real estate debt expertise
3.    How to complement a traditional private credit portfolio

Company Profile: American Beacon Partners is a market-leading product innovation and distribution partner serving the U.S. wealth market. Our mission is to connect investors with high-quality investment solutions by identifying best-in-class managers, optimizing products to meet evolving demand, and delivering them through effective service distribution and marketing. With deep market insight and a collaborative approach, we help asset managers expand reach and help advisors access differentiated strategies that support better client outcomes. For more information, visit ambeacon.com.

Food, infrastructure, and energy underpin daily life and global economies. Yet, these essential resources are often produced in regions defined by unique geology and climate, far from where they are ultimately consumed. 

Bridging that gap requires financing across the entire supply chain, from production and processing to transport and trade. 

Commodity-backed credit provides investors with access to this real-world financing opportunity, offering stable, income-generating exposure that is largely uncorrelated to traditional markets. By supporting the movement of essential goods, it can serve as both a diversifier and a hedge against inflation, currency depreciation, and geopolitical risk.

Workshop Objective: A discussion of commodity-backed credit, trade finance and the tools that redefine emerging markets investing.

Company Profile: Gemcorp Capital is a privately owned investment group focused on unleashing the potential in emerging markets. We combine decades of experience with financial discipline and local knowledge to deliver long-term value for investors and sustainable growth in the economies we invest in.

Our core focus is emerging market private credit, structuring and managing solutions that make complex markets investable for global investors. With deep roots across Africa and other growth regions, we look to unlock opportunities that offer genuine alpha and diversification. We mitigate risks through disciplined underwriting and innovative structuring, deploying capital in sectors critical to economic resilience and development.

Additionally, we manage complementary strategies in trade finance, liquid markets and special situations, each underpinned by the same investment discipline and conviction-based philosophy.

This presentation covers Hines Real Estate Exchange, LLC, which seeks to offer beneficial interests in DST offerings with the objective of providing cash flow to investors from Master Lease rents in the form of cash distributions. Hines Real Estate Exchange, LLC seeks to manage properties within the DST in a manner consistent with prudent real estate management to maintain long-term value and, unless the Fair Market Value Option has been exercised, to sell the properties.

Workshop Objective: To provide financial professionals with a data-driven understanding of real estate market trends, Hines Global Income Trust's strategic approach, and how to position real estate investments effectively in response to shifting economic conditions.

Join Invesco Real Estate to examine and explore how to best position real estate equity and debt strategies to create value in client portfolios.  Coming off a three-year correction,1 real estate valuations have stabilized,2 creating an attractive entry point for both real estate debt and equity investments, in our view. Amid healthy demand, declining supply,3 and anticipated rate cuts potentially lowering borrowing costs, we believe real estate equity may represent a particularly compelling opportunity. 

Workshop Objective: This session will present the investment case for US commercial real estate equity and debt and highlight the attributes of each strategy.

Company Profile: Invesco Ltd. (Ticker NYSE: IVZ) is a global independent investment management firm dedicated to delivering an investment experience that helps people get more out of life. Our distinctive investment teams deliver a comprehensive range of active, passive, and alternative investment capabilities. With offices in more than 20 countries, Invesco manages US$2.1 trillion (as of September 30, 2025) in assets on behalf of clients worldwide.

 Join our portfolio manager for an insider's view on navigating today's global real estate resurgence and the powerful megatrends driving sustained demand for necessity real estate. Understand Nuveen's research-driven perspectives behind alpha-generating opportunities across the global risk spectrum—from sector evaluation, including the rise of data centers and AI infrastructure, to geographical diversification. 

Workshop Objective: Educate investors on the status of the real estate market, understanding global and domestic megatrends, and how Nuveen’s strategy leverages local expertise and sector allocation for long-term growth.

Company Profile: Nuveen is a global investment leader, managing $1.4T in public and private assets for clients around the world and on behalf of TIAA, our parent company and one of the world’s largest institutional investors.

With broad expertise across income and alternatives, we invest in the growth of businesses, real estate, infrastructure and natural capital, providing clients with the reliability, access and foresight unique to our 125+ year heritage.

Our prevailing perspective on the future drives our ambition to innovate and adapt our business to the changing needs of 
investors — all to pursue lasting performance for our clients, our communities and our global economy.

Nuveen. Invest like the future is watching.