Ivanhoé Cambridge on Separating Good Office From Bad, Opportunistic Investing and Deploying Cash

"It's the case of the haves and the have nots."

Real estate investment firm Ivanhoé Cambridge is facing the same issues as every other investment firm: how do you correctly manage an office portfolio right now? For the firm's head of office and life sciences investments, Jonathan Pearce, it's all about separating assets into buckets: the good ones worth throwing new cash on, and the ones underperforming. Deconstruct chatted with Pearce about how he’s thinking about investing in office right now, opportunities for preferred and mezzanine financing and how it helps to have the support of a hundred-billion-dollar-plus parent company.