LOS ANGELES—The stability in the multifamilymarket is attracting institutional capital,according to Marc Renard, vice chairman and theexecutive managing director of the capital markets group atCushman & Wakefield. Renard is busy preparingfor the upcoming RealShareApartments conference on October 15 and 16 in DowntownLos Angeles, where he will be moderating the panel on multifamilyinvestment strategies. He will talk to five key players in themultifamily investment market—Sean Bannon,managing director of Zurich Alternative AssetManagement; Adam Berry, SVP atEssex Property Trust; Rodney Chu;executive director at UBS; JeffDaniels, managing director at AIG Global RealEstate Investment Corp.; Dean Rostovsky,equity partner and director and ClarionPartners—about the current trends in the market and what'snext. We caught up with him before the conference to ask him histhoughts on the market and get a sneak peak of the questions heplans to ask the panel. Here is what we found out:

GlobeSt.com: What are the hot trends or topics youplan to discuss with the panel?

Renard: The panel consists of some ofthe largest institutional players in the marketplace, so ourdiscussion will focus on how the panelists and their respectiveorganizations are making investment decisions today and allocatingtheir capital. Some of the panelists invest across differentproperty types, so discussing the merits and trends acrossdifferent property types, discussing the current pipeline of supplyon the market and how, as allocators of capital, they are gaugingdemand. There is also a trend to build to the millennialdemographic, so we will discuss that as well.