Looking to the Horizon – The 2024 REIT Market Outlook: BI Analyst Briefing

Jeffrey Langbaum is a senior analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, a real-time, interactive industry research platform available on the Bloomberg Professional service. Mr. Langbaum focuses on commercial and residential real estate trends and market performance, specializing in real estate investment trusts (REITs) which invest in commercial real estate focused on the multi-family residential, office, and health-care sectors. Prior to joining Bloomberg Intelligence in 2012, Mr. Langbaum covered the REIT market at Ladenburg Thalmann, WJB Capital Group, Barclays Capital and Bear Stearns. Mr. Langbaum earned a bachelor's of science degree in finance from the University of Maryland.

Lindsay Dutch, CFA is a consumer hardlines and REIT equity analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, specializing in retail and industrial within commercial real estate sector. Lindsay has been with Bloomberg for over 15 years, and a part of our research department, Bloomberg Intelligence, since 2010. Prior to covering commercial real estate (beginning in 2014) and consumer hardlines (2022), she covered property and casualty insurance as well as transportation companies. She earned her CFA charter in 2011, and graduated cum laude from Lafayette College in 2007 with a bachelor’s of science in mathematics and a minor in economics.

Archena Alagappan (‘Arch’) is senior vice president at Neuberger Berman and a senior analyst for the real estate securities group. Previously, she was a senior real estate analyst at First Sentier Investors for six years and a senior research associate on the REITs team at Citigroup Global Markets for four years. Alagappan received a BCom degree from Stella Maris College, University of Madras and an MBA from the Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester.

Tom Arnold has taught in the MSRE program at the University of Florida for the past three years and holds a Doctor of Business Administration, a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics, and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Florida, a Master of Law (Taxation) from New York University, a Master of Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, a Master of Higher Education Administration from Georgetown University, and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School. Arnold is a licensed attorney and a holder of the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) designations. Arnold also has extensive limited partner-general partner experience. As an LP, Arnold invested in over 150 real estate funds. At the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), Arnold oversaw the internalization of one of the world’s largest real estate investment platforms. Before ADIA, he was a principal in five real estate funds sponsored by Cerberus Capital Management and Credit Suisse. Arnold started his career as a transactional lawyer, principally with Holland & Knight.

John D. Worth is the executive vice president for research and investor outreach at Nareit, where he leads Nareit’s internal and external research efforts and directs Nareit’s investor outreach and education initiatives. Prior to joining Nareit, Worth founded the Office of the Chief Economist of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), spent nearly a decade at the U.S. Treasury where he served as the Director of the Office of Microeconomic Analysis and served as Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomics, and worked as a consultant for Welch Consulting and the RAND Corporation. He is a graduate of George Washington University and holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Southern California.