Brookfield’s Bruce Flatt at PERE Europe Forum: Full interview

Did you miss a rare opportunity to hear Brookfield Asset Management chief executive Bruce Flatt speak on stage at the PERE Network Europe Forum 2025 this week? Fear not. The team behind The PERE Podcast is stepping aside from our usual format to showcase the entire unabridged conversation between Flatt and PEI’s real estate editor-in-chief, Jonathan Brasse. In this wide-ranging interview, Flatt explains how to make money in today’s real estate environment, the primary function of unlisted property in institutional portfolios, liability matching with insurance money, and harnessing retail and private wealth investors’ growing appetite for private markets. Flatt also reflects on the ups and downs of working with corporate giants like Nvidia and Microsoft as well as his view on AI advances and geopolitical volatility.