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although a brookfield bull, i did my first ever trim of ~30% near the past peak.
it is worthwhile to keep in mind their sporadic fallibility.
although small on a relative scale, their LA venture is among the most disastrous in recent american CRE history.
i bring this up because no interviewer ever asks, nor does brookfield volunteer.
ironically, it was just after the scale of this failure was obvious in ~2022, when the sentiment around brookfield went vertical.
https://therealdeal.com/la/2026/03/27/downtown-la-...personally, i had a small chunk in dtla, and it was the final straw regarding never to invest in a brookfield sub\spin where flatt and marks did not have their biggest direct stake.
