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.

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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.

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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.

1 Source: NCREIF, -6.2% total return, net of fees, for the NFI-ODCE core real estate open-ended fund index over the trailing three years ending 6/30/25, latest data available. Past performance does not guarantee future results. NFI-ODCE core real estate open-ended fund index is a fund-level capitalization weighted, time-weighted return index and includes property investments at ownership share, cash balances and leverage. An investment cannot be made into an index.

2 Source: MSCI Quarterly Property Indices, Q2 2025. The MSCI Quarterly Property Indices track the performance of various property markets globally and regionally on a quarterly basis. An investment cannot be made into an index.

3 Source: JLL Global Real Estate Outlook, July 2025.

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About risk

Investments in real estate related instruments may be affected by economic, legal, or environmental factors that affect property values, rents or occupancies of real estate. Real estate companies, including REITs or similar structures, tend to be small and mid-cap companies and their shares may be more volatile and less liquid. The value of investments and any income will fluctuate (this may partly be the result of exchange rate fluctuations) and investors may not get back the full amount invested. Property and land can be difficult to sell, so investors may not be able to sell such investments when they want to. The value of property is generally a matter of an independent valuer's opinion and may not be realized. Although certain kinds of investments are expected to generate current income, the return of capital and the realization of gains, if any, from an investment will often occur upon the partial or complete disposition of such investment. Investing in commercial real estate assets involves certain risks, including but not limited to: tenants' inability to pay rent; increases in interest rates and lack of availability of financing; tenant turnover and vacancies; and changes in supply of or demand for similar property types in a given market.

Alternative investment products, including hedge funds and private equity, involve a high degree of risk, often engage in leveraging and other speculative investment practices that may increase the risk of investment loss, can be highly illiquid, are not required to provide periodic pricing or valuation information to investors, may involve complex tax structures and delays in distributing important tax information, are not subject to the same regulatory requirements as mutual funds, often charge high fees which may offset any trading profits, and in many cases the underlying investments are not transparent and are known only to the investment manager. There is often no secondary market for hedge funds and private equity, and none is expected to develop. There may be restrictions on transferring interests in such investments.

Invesco Distributors, Inc. is the U.S. distributor for Invesco's retail products and private placements.

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Join us for an overview of KKR's scaled private credit platform, covering both Direct Lending and Asset-Based Finance strategies. We'll begin by framing the current credit market environment, addressing recent headlines, forward return expectations, and what we're seeing in deal flow today. A key focus will be demystifying Asset-Based Finance—exploring how it differs from and complements Direct Lending and traditional fixed income through its distinct risk, return, and repayment profiles. We'll close by walking through how investors can access these opportunities today across two key entry points. This session will provide practical insights into how private credit strategies can fit within your clients' portfolios.

Workshop Objective: Equip advisors with a comprehensive understanding of KKR's private credit platform—spanning Direct Lending and Asset-Based Finance—to confidently articulate how these strategies complement traditional fixed income and address current market opportunities within client portfolios.

Company Profile: KKR is a leading global investment firm managing over $700 billion in assets across multiple strategies including private credit, equity, real assets, and infrastructure. Founded in 1976, KKR combines deep sector expertise with a patient, value-oriented investment approach to generate attractive returns for clients worldwide.
Our private wealth business partners with financial advisors and their clients to provide access to institutional-quality alternative investments through vehicles designed specifically for the wealth channel. From direct lending and asset-based finance to infrastructure and private equity, KKR offers diversified solutions that complement traditional portfolios.

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 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.

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Silver Point is an established global credit investor with a proven 24-year track record across private and public credit markets. The firm currently manages $44 billion in investable assets, with approximately half deployed in private credit strategies.

As alternative and private credit markets have matured, a critical shift has emerged: investors increasingly seek alpha-generating opportunities to differentiate from commoditized beta strategies. Silver Point is distinctly positioned to meet this demand through our disciplined, alpha-focused approach that prioritizes risk mitigation across all product lines.

Our integrated platform spans the full credit spectrum—from liquid performing credit and direct lending to special situations and opportunistic strategies—enabling us to deliver both attractive risk-adjusted returns and downside protection.

Workshop Objectives: Introducing Silver Point Capital: A global leader in credit investing. Discover our perspective on capturing alpha and mitigating risk in today’s rapidly evolving and highly competitive private credit markets.

Company Profile: Silver Point is a leading global credit investing firm. With over 390 employees, the firm oversees a $44 billion comprehensive credit platform that includes direct lending, liquid performing credit, and special situations investment strategies. Founded in 2002 by Ed Mulé and Bob O’Shea, former partners at Goldman Sachs, who together founded and built many of Goldman’s global credit businesses, Silver Point has successfully navigated multiple market cycles. For over two decades, Silver Point has been committed to generating alpha investing across both public and private credit markets and focused on effectively managing risk. Through a culture of excellence, collaboration and continuous improvement, the firm has sought to consistently deliver innovative solutions to meet the needs of its business partners and investors.

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