Financial Services >> Analyst Interviews >> February 16, 2004

REIT INDUSTRY OVERVIEW: ANATOLE PEVNEV – MCDONALD INVESTMENTS INC

Anatole Pevnev is currently a Senior Vice President with McDonald Investments Inc., the investment banking, capital markets and brokerage division of KeyCorp. With McDonald Investments Inc. since June 1998, he is responsible for all aspects of McDonald's research of the real estate investment trust (REIT) industry, particularly office and industrial properties. Mr. Pevnev is leaving his position at McDonald to become CEO of Interactive Digital Properties Group, a real estate information company that Mr. Pevnev founded. Interactive Digital Properties Group specializes in providing interactive market tours of real estate portfolios for both private investors and REITs. Prior to joining McDonald Investments Inc., he was a senior equity analyst at Legg Mason Wood Walker, Inc. Prior to that, he served as director of investment research at Property & Portfolio Research in Boston. He has also held senior research positions at Aetna Realty Investors and Prudential Real Estate Investors. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Boston University and a Master of Science degree in real estate investment and development from New York University, where he was a board member of the Graduate Studies Commission. He has 19 years of real estate experience and has advised numerous US and international pension funds on portfolio and investment strategies in US real estate. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with a quick overview of what you're covering in

the REIT space?

Mr. Pevnev: Currently I'm covering office and industrial companies,

companies such as AMB (AMB),