REITs Regretting Last Year's Money-Raising Spree to be Discussed at GoldenNetworking.com's Distressed Investing Leaders Forum 2010

New York, NY, February 07, 2010 --(PR.com)-- REITs last year's money-raising binge, with few deals happening this year and shares now trading at twice their March lows, will be analyzed by high-profile distressed real estate experts at GoldenNetworking.com's highly anticipated Distressed Investing Leaders Forum 2010, February 26th, New York City. More than 200 members of the Distressed Investing community, including business executives, professionals and entrepreneurs in private equity firms, hedge funds, financial sponsors, investment banks, limited and general partnerships, lenders, accounting and law firms, and portfolio companies, will meet in New York City to obtain crucial insights they can act upon immediately.

The Wall Street Journal reports REITs executives' regrets. "'Today I'm sitting with $125 million in cash that I can't find investment for,' Stephen Richter, chief financial officer of Weingarten Realty Investors, said in an interview. 'If I would have known the markets are where they are today, I certainly wouldn't have sold a third of the company.' Weingarten, which owns shopping centers and warehouses in 23 states, sold about $380 million in stock last April, a time its shares were trading at less than half their value of a year before."

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· High-Frequency Trading Happy Hour (http://www.HFTHappyHour.com), March 1st, 2010, New York City
· Hedge Funds Leaders Forum 2010, "Generating Alpha in Challenging Times" (http://www.HedgeFundsLeadersForum.com), March 18th, 2010, New York City
· Banking M&A Leaders Forum 2010, "Have Deal-Making Hit Bottom Yet?" (http://www.BankingLeadersForum.com), March 25th, 2010, Washington DC
· Venture Capital Leaders Forum 2010 (http://www.VCLeadersForum.com), April 15th, 2010, Boston, MA
· Real Estate Leaders Forum 2010 (http://www.RealEstateLeadersForum.com), April 22nd, 2010, New York City

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