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Co-Founder and Partner, Virtua Partners Quinn Palomino Quinn Palomino is the Co-Founder and Principal of Virtua Partners, a fully-integrated, private equity and real estate services firm. In this intimate discussion with NAWRB, Quinn shares her incredible story as a first-generation Vietnamese immigrant, her experience growing up in a mix of both American and Vietnamese cultures, […]

Women and Minorities Underrepresented Among Ownership in Asset Management Industry

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A recent study by the Harvard Business School and Bella Research Group analyzing diversity within ownership of U.S. asset management shows that women and minorities have been significantly underrepresented in mutual funds, hedge funds, private equity and real estate between the years 2011 and 2017. However, the report also notes that diversity does not have […]

Special Guest Interview with Wendy Federman, Award-Winning Broadway & Film Producer & President of Foolish Mortals Productions

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What is a Producer? “A producer is a rare, paradoxical genius: hard-headed, soft-hearted, cautious, reckless, a hopeful innocent in fair weather, a stern pilot in stormy weather, a mathematician who prefers to ignore the laws of mathematics and trust intuition, an idealist, a realist, a practical dreamer, a sophisticated gambler, a stage-struck child. That’s a […]

NAWRB’s Response to IRS Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Opportunity Zones

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27 December 2018 To Whom It May Concern, Women in the Housing & Real Estate Ecosystem (NAWRB) is writing in response to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the Opportunity Zones provision of the Internal Revenue Code (Section 1400Z-2) NAWRB’s decade-long history in social impact through our data analytics, media engagement, connections with senior executives […]

White House Creates “Opportunity and Revitalization Council” for Opportunity Zones

On Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, the White House announced that it would be exerting more governmental resources to facilitate the development of the Opportunity Zone tax incentive with the establishment of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson will serve as council chair among representatives from […]

DC Finance Real Estate Family Office Opportunity Zones

DC Finance Real Estate Family Office Opportunity Zones is December 12, 2018! Desirée Patno will be moderating the Federal Reserve Special Panel – Impact and Community Engagement of Investments in Opportunity Zone https://thenycmeetings.com/2/  

NAWRB Conference Interview with Alicia Townsend, U.S. Bank

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NAWRB: What are you responsible for, in your own words? I’m Vice President for the great state of Ohio. This is my first opportunity to engage and I’m loving it—that’s the conversation we’re just having. It’s nice for us, as bankers, to be engaged at this level and be able to go where the customer […]

Cheryl Travis Johnson Interview NAWRB Conference 2018

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NAWRB: Tell us a little about yourself and describe what you do. I’m Cheryl Travis-Johnson, and I’m the Chief Operating Officer for VRM Mortgage Services. I’m also a part of the Council for Inclusion in Financial Services. At my first job as a COO of VRM, I handle end-to-end servicing solutions for clients from originations […]

FHFA Requests Public Input for Duty to Serve Program Provisions – Deadline Nov. 2, 2018

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The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) recently released a Request for Input to the public regarding proposed modifications to the Enterprises’, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, Duty to Serve (DTS) program. These proposed modifications will the purchase or rehabilitation of distressed properties activity, chattell loan pilot,  investment in LIHTC properties and financing by small financial […]

Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Conclude Expansion in Single-Family Rental Market

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The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced yesterday that government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will end their expansion into the single-family rental market by halting the single-family rental pilot programs initiated in the last two years. The FHFA has concluded that the market is able to run smoothly without the assistance of GSEs, […]