NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Our team attended the 2014 Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) conference in Boston last week where the focus was on “tapering”, generating returns in a near-zero interest rate environment and risk-management. The conference was well attended by institutional real estate investors and managers. Generally, PREA focuses on real estate from the equity ownership perspective, though many panels highlighted the value of debt investing in this market. Major conference the