Brookfield's Flatt: Commercial Real Estate Is at an Inflection Point

Brookfield is one of the world’s largest alternative investment companies. It owns hydroelectric plants, cellphone towers, power lines, wind farms, ports and even city skylines. CEO Bruce Flatt has been in charge for more than two decades, overseeing $900 billion of assets under management. On the latest episode of "Leaders With Lacqua," Flatt talks about the secrets of his success, the outlook for commercial real estate, and his own future.
#brookfield #BruceFlatt #infrastructure #investing #property #leadership #risktaking #francinelacqua #leaderswithlacqua #bloomberg
00:00 - Intro
00:58 - Bruce Flatt on being backbone of global economy
04:45 - Bruce Flatt on AI
09:21 - Bruce Flatt on risk-taking
13:39 - Bruce Flatt on acquisitions and growth
18:12 - Bruce Flatt on commercial real estate
20:00 - Bruce Flatt on succession plans
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[@farzana6676]

Bruce Flatt is one of the most level headed, best investor ceos of all time.

[@svenhodaka9145]

Much respect for Bruce Flatt and Brookfield. Similar to investing in Berkshire. Excellent opportunity to invest in BN, and they are a Canadian company too! Nice interview Francine.

[@user-mz9cq1yc7c]

As a shareholder of BN, BAM and BIP, I have keenly observed that the culture of Brookfield management is to be shareholder friendly by increasing dividends and buying back shares which isn't surprising given the large amount of share ownership by insiders. Mr. Flatt is a superb CEO!

[@jimbojimbo6873]

Bruce is one of the few amazing CEO, i don’t know how he is off camera but on Camera I’ve always looked at him as someone to emulate

[@musicloveranthony]

Brilliant CEO. Always my favorite to listen to but I don’t see him doing interviews as often as some of the others

Bruce is a nice guy!

[@rialtonetwrk]

Great work Bruce. However, before being at the place where you have better information which facilitate Brookfield's management, what are the early fundamental structures and/or experiments you engaged to get to that place? How were the relationships first initiated and cultivated?

[@AJ-iu6nw]

There is NO issue with CRE loans at the moment! None whatsoever.

[@MoreThanFinanceBro]

Lol

[@peterbedford2610]

Office vacancies are creeping up, not down, as companies are resizing their office space needs over time. Although C19 spiked vacancies, and then rebounded, it is a trend that is not reversing.

[@alexisgomezsalinas3560]

Real estate developers understand this, they know office space must be attractive enough to make employees want to come to the office. Old style offices will disappear, but the best developers are creating prime office space that is still attractive to new companies, and it's cheaper to produce since you expect 2/3 of the company to work from home (you can build less parking space for example) but charge higher amounts for the same m2.

[@clifftanch]

Digitalization Decarbonization Deglobalization +20+30Y w/ liquidity

[@mahirhaque1801]

Great Canadian

[@zipclosed4295]

listening to this makes me feel like @Brookfield might get into the bitcoin mining/data center game. Interest in Infrastructure, payments, digitization and decarbonization with 20 years experience in wind and energy

[@fleischwolf82]

You have good imagination 😂

[@wehrine]

Hey guys, I'm pretty new to the whole real estate investment scene and I'm looking for some guidance. Any tips or advice you could share with a newbie like me? I appreciate any help you can offer! Thanks a bunch!

[@leonie563]

Don't. Congress looking at Social Security Pensions running out in 2035 now. So you should plan for a future Over 60 that's self funded.

[@JG-re2bb]

Ironic that she asked what a martian would think when Flatt looks like E.T.

[@screugneugneu1]

Doesn’t say much