Lead Instructor

Christopher Haley

Mr. Haley is co-founder of Palladian Realty Capital LLC (PRC). PRC is a real estate investment and advisory boutique providing asset/portfolio and investment advisory services to various public- and private-property company clients.

Until 2008, Mr. Haley was Managing Director of Real Estate Securities Research for Wachovia Securities. Mr. Haley joined Wachovia (then named Wheat First Butcher Singer, privately-held) in early 1993 to lead its research and investment efforts in the real estate securities sector. He directed the group's fundamental analysis and research of real estate capital markets, macro- and micro-economic issues impacting publicly-traded real estate securities - including real estate investment trusts and real estate operating companies.

During Mr. Haley's career at Wachovia, the firm's real estate research effort improved its third-party quality rankings from 21st to consistently in the top-five among full-service investment/commercial banks (e.g., quality of research, quality of service, access to management, trusted resource).

Additionally, over the course of his career at Wachovia, Mr. Haley has been involved in the issuance of ~$13 billion in debt, hybrid, and equity transactions for various public real estate companies, and pre-IPO and initial flotation independent assessments of over 23 property companies (not all of which were completed).

Prior to Wachovia, Mr. Haley was a Research Associate at Kidder Peabody, a full-service investment banking firm based in New York.

Mr. Haley is a member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, member, and contributing editor to the CFA Institute.  Mr. Haley also is a member of NAREIT's Financial Standards Task Force (Best Financial Practices Council), graduate of the accelerated Management/Leadership curriculums from Harvard University, and frequent contributor to numerous real estate industry and financial sector publications.  Mr. Haley earned his graduate Finance degree from Villanova University's School of Business, with concentrations in Accounting and Business Law.

 

Guest Instructors to be announced.