Mike Consol

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Editor of Real Assets Adviser magazine, one of seven titles published by Institutional Real Estate Inc., and producer and host of the podcast Novelist Spotlight

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Farmland in the age of climate change: Investors have been betting the farm, but then Mother Nature turned fickle

1 month ago | irei.com | Mike Consol

First, consider the maxim, “Buy land, they’re not making it anymore,” indicating scarcity and barriers to entry, the kind of buzz words and phrases investors find especially appealing. Then consider the human family can survive without office buildings and data centers and any number of assets and asset classes, albeit not as prosperously as it would like, but it cannot survive without fertile land that produces food.
Profile: Shaun Hauser, co-founder and CEO of Wellington-Altus

1 month ago | irei.com | Mike Consol

Shaun Hauser was still living under his parents’ roof when his father came home one day to announce some dreadful news: The company for which he worked as an information technology project manager had ceased operations in Winnipeg, Canada, putting him out of work. Rather than going in search of another place of employment, the senior Hauser started his own consulting business. The impact it made on his son was indelible.
Novelist Spotlight #177: Detective novelist Libby Cudmore and her five tips for writing series characters

1 month ago | podomatic.com | Mike Consol

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The future of wealth management

2 months ago | irei.com | Mike Consol

The wealth management business is confronted by two major issues: technology and demographics. Technologically, the future of wealth management is poised to begin a series of changes that could make it unrecognizable vis-à-vis the early years of this century.
Novelist Spotlight #175: Time traveler Amy Daughters writes to Facebook friends and books to the reading public

2 months ago | podomatic.com | Mike Consol

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Profile: Shane Clifford, partner and head of global wealth at Carlyle

Jan 24, 2025 | irei.com | Mike Consol

Shane Clifford has a story to tell you. It begins during his years at Permal Group, the global investment management firm focused on hedge and private equity funds, where he learned this time-honored lesson: People are far more likely to remember stories than a recitation of hard, sterile facts. It was then Clifford started telling stories rather than using a dizzying blizzard of numbers and other data to promote his organization’s products and capabilities.
Stellar ambitions: Investors line up for the riches of asteroid mining

Jan 24, 2025 | irei.com | Mike Consol

The math is astounding: A 140-mile-wide metal-rich asteroid is estimated to have a commercial value of quadrillions of dollars, a total that exceeds the entire global economy. Investors like all those zeroes, as evidenced by space startups around the world having raised tens of millions of dollars to back the developing and testing of asteroid-mining technologies.
The hype and promise of nuclear fusion: Money is flooding into the space in pursuit of bringing the revolutionary technology to market, but decades of R&D have yet to yield a sustained fusion reaction, let alone a single power plant

Jan 23, 2025 | irei.com | Mike Consol

The late Omni magazine forecasted that a revolutionary new energy technology called nuclear fusion — an innovation that would address a multitude of issues — was a mere 10 years away. That was in the early 1980s. “What happened?” a scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was asked 30 years later about the unfulfilled prophecy.
Novelist Spotlight #173: Bestselling historical novelist Alyson Richman

Jan 4, 2025 | podomatic.com | Mike Consol

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Novelist Spotlight #172: National Book Award finalist moves from traditional to self-publishing

Dec 24, 2024 | podomatic.com | Mike Consol

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Mike Consol @mikeconsol

29 Mar 25

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Articles

Farmland in the age of climate change: Investors have been betting the farm, but then Mother Nature turned fickle

Profile: Shaun Hauser, co-founder and CEO of Wellington-Altus

Novelist Spotlight #177: Detective novelist Libby Cudmore and her five tips for writing series characters

The future of wealth management

Novelist Spotlight #175: Time traveler Amy Daughters writes to Facebook friends and books to the reading public

Profile: Shane Clifford, partner and head of global wealth at Carlyle

Stellar ambitions: Investors line up for the riches of asteroid mining

The hype and promise of nuclear fusion: Money is flooding into the space in pursuit of bringing the revolutionary technology to market, but decades of R&D have yet to yield a sustained fusion reaction, let alone a single power plant

Novelist Spotlight #173: Bestselling historical novelist Alyson Richman

Novelist Spotlight #172: National Book Award finalist moves from traditional to self-publishing

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