JackChat March 2023
In a few short months, June 1, I will celebrate my 42nd anniversary in the industry! Today, in an internal meeting, one of my younger colleagues challenged me to stroll down memory lane and discuss prior “recessions” (say, industry hiccups for one reason or another) with the context for each of sharing a learning moment.
ArrowMark Commercial Real Estate Market Update
Hear what our President and Chief Innovation Officer Jack M. Cohen has to say about the commercial real estate industry as he sits down with ArrowMark Commercial Real Estate Finance Partners. In an economy that has endured a rapid period of repricing and recalibration, ArrowMark’s Rob Brown and Jack M. Cohen share their view on what is shaping the commercial real estate industry. Find out in this latest video.
CREFC Miami 2023 – Industry Leaders Roundtable
Fresh after moderating the Industry Leaders Roundtable panel at CREFC Miami 2023, Managing Director of ArrowMark Partners, Jack M. Cohen, joins us backstage to discuss important takeaways from the lively panel discussion.
JackChat December 2022
The commercial real estate world is not coming to an end. It’s back to basics. Fundamentals matter. Really.
Mentoring
More from CRE Finance Council: Jack Cohen on mentoring.
Mistakes to Avoid at the Closing Table
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JackChat July 2021
Beautiful day in the mountains today and I was moved to write another blog. I hope this finds you making progress on your 2021 plans and initiatives; as you begin to think about strategic planning for 2022, have you considered deflation?
RealINSIGHT
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Yulia Yaani, RealAtom’s podcast with Jack Cohen
Yulia Yaani, RealAtom’s new podcast with Jack Cohen, President, and CIO of Stronghill Capital and a VC investor with Darkknight Ventures. Learn from his 40 years of experience about how to capitalize on mistakes and grow commercial real estate lending companies. You will like Jack’s vision of how to move the CRE lending industry’s closing ratio from 5% upwards.
JackChat March 2021
My last blog was just before the Presidential Election (I urged folks to vote.) It has been a CRAZY five months! Recently, I hosted my third roundtable of 2021; its where my really smart industry colleagues get me thinking.
JackChat October 2020
It has been longer than six months since my last blog. I confess, I have been as astounded, shocked, scared, and as surprised as any of us. With no answers, no insight, nothing to offer, I remained silent. In turn, I was impressed with all the new bloggers and podcast/webcast offerings
JackChat March 2020
Without sounding trite or naive; we certainly are living in interesting times. I had an executive coach once who told me, “Jack, all events are neutral...
JackChat February 2020
Some quick bold predictions as we gain traction in 2020. I recently returned from the MBA’s CREF Conference in San Diego, essentially concluding my conference season while chatting literally with several dozen of industry colleagues from across the transactional role spectrum.
JackChat January 2020
Some quick notes as we kick off 2020, as I recently had the privilege of leading an Industry Leaders Roundtable session, AND, a separate Roundtable populated by CRE “Young Professionals” at the January CREFC Conference in South Beach.
JackChat December 2019
I do not believe that 2020 is the year that the market changes for the worse. That said, I believe we all remember that liquidity is in the marketplace until it isn’t.
JackChat September 2019
Innovation: At the January CREFC conference in Miami, I asked Industry Leader Panelists their thinking about “Technology”. Maybe it was a mistake ...
JackChat June, 2019
With all this talk about being “late in the cycle”; are you protecting your downside? IF you are protecting your downside, are you also taking measured growth bets in some structured relative sized manner?
JackChat May, 2019
Multifamily – Sector affordability is a concern. While rent growth and rising property values have position connotations, these trends are not sustainable.
Performance Psychology
Jared Cohen explains the physiological principles of human performance.
JackChat January, 2019
2018 was a productive year. I hope that your 2018 was a good one; one full of health, happiness and prosperity. My format from October, though brief and written more in the form of “Soundbites” rather than “deep content”, seemed to go over well. As the feedback (thank you) was generally positive (easier and faster to read) I will follow the same format with this update.
JackChat October, 2018
Since my last blog in June, the year continues to be robust for most. With the sun and wind at our backs; transactions flourish. Hit ratios suffer given the competition everyone faces to find, capitalized, and recapitalize a deal; but everyone seems to be prospering nonetheless.
JackChat June, 2018
The old saying “I would rather be lucky than smart”; how would we ever really know which of the two drove our individual fate professionally?
JackChat May, 2018
I just came back from the Spring ULI Council Meeting in Detroit. After Council Dinner I had a conversation with my oldest son about a class he is taking for his MBA. He was talking about “Red Ocean and Blue Ocean” businesses.
JackChat April, 2018
For almost 40 years I have enjoyed “tilting at windmills” in and around the Commercial Real Estate Industry. Two of my favorite rants have been directed at the Portfolio Lenders (early 90’s) and the Conduits (late 90’s).
Debt Funds Talk Overcrowding on Their Turf, the End of Quantitative Easing
Jack Cohen, the CEO of Darkknight Ventures, injected some levity into the discussion.