REITs have always been a popular play in the industry and as therising and falling tides of the recession reveal the worst from thebest investments across industry divides, a varied search for yieldhas begun. American Realty Capital is betting on variety not onlybeing the spice of life, but the remedy to what ails investors.Currently, they have raised money for five different REITs in thenon-traded space and recently passed the $1 billion mark for equityraised. American Realty's Nick Schorsch sits down with GlobeSt.comto share his view of the future.

GlobeSt.com: Give us a little background on how thecompany is working.

Nick Schorsch: We represent over 100,000advisors and reps that are in the marketplace, which is a verybroad distribution for retail. And we are seeing many of thesebroker-dealers responding very well to the fact that we're offeringmultiple product. It's very similar to what happened in the '80sand '90s with insurance; where agents began to sell policies frommultiple parties.