14: Year-End Performance in Depth & Investment Strategies for 2023

In anticipation of the upcoming publication of Fundrise’s 2022 year-end letter to investors, CEO Ben Miller is once again joined by Kendall Davis, Head of Investor Relations and Investor Operations, for an in-depth analysis and conversation about the Fundrise portfolio’s 2022 performance. 

This episode is indispensable to any listener interested in better contextualization of and perspective on our portfolio and its outlook, whether that’s understanding how we so handily outperformed public market analogues; how we adjusted our strategy and fortified our portfolio over the past several years in anticipation of the sweeping 2022 market downturn; and why, looking ahead, we’re in a position of enviable investing strength, as we’ve prepared to take advantage of this next stage of the market cycle.

Some of the topics Kendall brings to the conversation for Ben’s consideration include:
- Why Fundrise NAVs are down, particularly in the Flagship Fund.
- Why defensive positioning, involving low debt and high liquidity, is so important today, and why we’re set up for potentially once-in-a-cycle investment opportunities in the months and years ahead.
- What signals like an inverted yield curve tells us about what to expect and where we are in the market cycle.
- What an optimistic Ben Miller (whose staunch market realism sometimes sounds like pessimism) looks and sounds like. (Listen until the end of the episode to find out.)
- And much more, all covered in Ben and Kendall’s conversation.

Have questions or feedback about this episode? Drop us a note at [email protected].

Onward is hosted by Ben Miller, co-founder and CEO of Fundrise, and Cardiff Garcia, co-founder of Bazaar Audio and host of the economics-focused podcast The New Bazaar (after spending many years as the co-creator and co-host of NPR's The Indicator podcast).

Podcast production by The Podcast Consultant. Music by Seaplane Armada.

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