Asset Managers and Service Providers Can Apply for 2025 CIO Industry Innovation Awards

CIO annually recognizes asset managers and service providers that have truly and reliably enhanced their clients’ portfolios.

If you work for a firm that provides asset management or other services to institutional investors, and your firm has introduced an innovative product, service or strategy in the past two years, you may apply for the 2025 Industry Innovation Awards – Asset Management & Servicing here. A PDF of the application, to view before filling out, is here.

The application deadline is June 13, 2025.

Finalists will be recognized and winners will be announced at the CIO Industry Innovation Awards Dinner following the Influential Investors Forum on October 16 in New York City. Previous award winner profiles may be found here.

Questions may be directed to awards@issmediasolutions.com.

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The market is facing in a period of stagnation, muted property transaction activity, a supply-demand imbalance and lingering public-private real estate valuation challenges.

Art by Melinda Beck

The commercial real estate market and commercial property REITs could benefit in 2025 from improvements in the economy, a convergence of public-private real estate valuations, and an increase in property transactions.

Lingering and new risks, including fundamentals in some property sectors, higher-for-longer interest rates, fiscal uncertainty, and the potential for new or higher tariffs affecting growth, may restrain CRE performance in 2025, according to date from Nareit, the association representing REITs and publicly traded real estate companies.

The charts below illuminate some of these trends and challenges.

CRE Fundamentals: Property Type Occupancy Rates

Source: CoStar; Nareit. Data as of 2024: Q3.

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Convergence: Public-Private Real Estate Valuations

Source: Nareit T-Tracker®, NCREIF, FTSE Russell, FactSet Research Systems, S&P Capital IQ Pro.
Note: REIT metrics are from Nareit’s quarterly REIT industry tracker and the FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index. Private real estate measures focus on properties from open end diversified core equity (ODCE) funds from the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF).

Inverse Relationship: REIT Total Returns & U.S. 10-Year Treasury Yield

Source: Nareit, FTSE Russell, FactSet Research Systems.