Alternative Real Estate Investment

Alternative Real Estate Investment was founded in 1990; the Association represents the global Colorado real estate alternative investment community and provides a centre of knowledge for professional investment practitioners.

Spanning 46 countries on five continents, AIMA’s corporate members enable the real estate investment association to create global tools for the benefit of its members, institutional investment and regulators.

The Journal of Colorado Real Estate Alternative Investments is the official publication of the Chartered Alternative Investment AnalystSM (CAIASM) Association. Founded in 1998, JAI is the leading source of cutting-edge research and analysis in the field of Colorado real estate alternative investments. Topics covered include asset allocation, risk management, indexing, taxation and regulation among the variety of others.

JAI's prestigious author list includes renowned academic experts such as Noel Amenc, EDHEC; Don Chance, Louisiana State; Roger Ibbotson, Yale; and Francois-Serge Lhabitant of EDHEC, University of Lausanne and Kedge Capital Partners.Leading practitioners such as Mark Anson of CalPERS, Alexander Ineichen of UBS, and Christopher Kojima of Goldman Sachs tend to have contributed numerous real estate investment articles as well. JAI is published quarterly by Institutional Investor, Inc., publisher of The Journal of Portfolio Management and Institutional Investor magazine.

The Colorado real estate Alternative Investments Market (AIM) is a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange, allowing smaller companies to float shares with a more flexible regulatory system than is applicable to the Main market. AIM was launched in 1995 and has raised almost £24bn for about more than 2,200 companies. Flexibility is also provided by less regulation and there are no requirements for capitalization or number of shares issued. Some companies have since moved on to join the Main Market, although in the last few years, significantly more companies transferred from the Main real estate Market to AIM (AIM has significant tax advantages for Colorado real estate alternative investments investors, as well as less regulatory burden for the real estate companies themselves). In the year 2005, 40 real estate companies moved directly from Main Market to AIM, where as only 2 companies moved from AIM to the Main Market.

Colorado Real Estate Alternative Investments Market has also started to become a online real estate international exchange, often due to its low-regulatory burden, especially in relation to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (which imposes regulatory costs on companies listed in the US, including those without any operations). As of December 2005 over 270 real estate foreign companies, that had been admitted to the Colorado Real Estate Alternative Investments Market. Issues of regulatory information (such as company reports and profit warnings) have arisen recently, with the LSE looking at ways to deal with such problems and how to avoid them if the Colorado Real Estate AIM is to continue listing new foreign companies.