Richard P. Imperiale
Director, Inland Western Retail Real Estate Trust, Inc.
Richard P. Imperiale has been a director since January 2008 and is President and founder of the Uniplan Companies, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin based investment advisory holding company. Uniplan and its affiliates manage and advise over $300 million in client accounts. Uniplan specializes in providing clients with consistently superior risk-adjusted returns managing equity, REIT and specialty portfolios.
Mr. Imperiale started his career as a credit analyst for the First Wisconsin National Bank, (now U.S. Bank).
In 1983 Mr. Imperiale joined B.C. Ziegler & Company, a Midwest regional brokerage firm where he was instrumental in the development of portfolio strategies for one of the first hedged municipal bond mutual funds in the country. In 1984, Mr. Imperiale founded Uniplan, Inc., with the objective of managing investment portfolios to achieve the greatest long-term risk-adjusted return for conservative institutional clients.
The quantitative techniques used by Uniplan to manage portfolios have consistently ranked the firm among the top institutional managers on a risk-adjusted basis. In 1993, Uniplan was ranked #2 of 315 balanced managers for 10 year performance by Nelsons Investment Services and in 1994, Uniplan was ranked #1 of 374 managers on a risk-adjusted basis for five years by Money Manager Review. In addition, the Forward Uniplan Real Estate Fund received a Five Star ranking from the Morningstar mutual fund rating service for the period ended May 31, 2002.
Mr. Imperiale is widely quoted in local and national media on matters pertaining to investments and is a regular guest on CNNfn's Power Lunch. He has appeared on Bloomberg News, CNBC, and is a frequent guest on the syndicated radio talk show, Money Sense. He recently authored the book, Real Estate Investment Trusts: New Strategies For Portfolio Management, published by John Wiley & Sons, 2002.
He attended Marquette University Business School where he received a BS Degree in Finance. In addition, Mr. Imperiale completed the postgraduate lecture series in corporate finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and received a certificate in legal research from Concordia University.
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