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AR Global Terminated as Advisor to New York REIT October 27, 2016

AR Global Terminated as Advisor to New York REIT

AR Global Terminated as Advisor to New York REIT Oct 26 2016 | By DI Wire New York REIT Inc. (NYSE: NYRT), a former non-traded real estate investment trust known as American Realty Capital New York Recovery REIT, is terminating its advisory agreement with New York Recovery Advisors LLC, effective December 26th. The advisor is…
Ameriprise will stick with IRA commissions under DOL fiduciary rule October 27, 2016

Ameriprise will stick with IRA commissions under DOL fiduciary rule

Ameriprise will stick with IRA commissions under DOL fiduciary rule Oct 26, 2016 @ 1:31 pm | By Bruce Kelly | Investment News CEO says the commission model, which will require more compliance work on the company's part, serves both clients and advisers well In contrast to a couple of its most prominent competitors, Ameriprise Financial Inc.…
FS Investments Files Energy-Related Interval Fund October 27, 2016

FS Investments Files Energy-Related Interval Fund

FS Investments Files Energy-Related Interval Fund October 28, 2016 | Blue Vault On October 25, 2016 FS Investments filed a prospectus to the SEC for a new energy interval fund. The fund, named FS Energy Total Return Fund, is anticipated to be sub-advised by Magnetar Capital. Magnetar manages an estimated $13.5 billion in assets directed…
Shopoff Realty Investments Acquires Hebron Heights Retail Center in North Dallas Suburb October 26, 2016

Shopoff Realty Investments Acquires Hebron Heights Retail Center in North Dallas Suburb

Shopoff Realty Investments Acquires Hebron Heights Retail Center in North Dallas Suburb DALLAS (Oct. 26, 2016) – Shopoff Realty Investments, a national manager of opportunistic and value-add real estate investments, announced today that the company has acquired* a 36,000-square-foot retail center in the northern Dallas suburb of Carrollton, Texas, for approximately $8.1 million.  The property,…
Big Data: How Big an Impact for REITs? October 25, 2016

Big Data: How Big an Impact for REITs?

Big Data: How Big an Impact for REITs? October 19, 2016 | by Stuart Eisenberg | CREIOnline By Stuart Eisenberg, Partner, BDO USA: How using Big Data enables real estate owners and REITs to better predict, monitor and measure their investments. Big Data is big-time ubiquitous in headlines across industries, but the real estate industry…
Restaurant Chains Get Burned by Overexpansion, New Rivals October 25, 2016

Restaurant Chains Get Burned by Overexpansion, New Rivals

Restaurant Chains Get Burned by Overexpansion, New Rivals Glut of eateries, competitors offering prepared meals-to-go create pileup of business casualties Updated Oct. 16, 2016 9:08 p.m. ET | By JULIE JARGON and LILLIAN RIZZO | WSJ The U.S. is having one of its biggest restaurant shakeouts in years, as an oversupply of eateries and new rivals offering…
PAC Grabs Hines REIT’s Last Retail Property October 25, 2016

PAC Grabs Hines REIT’s Last Retail Property

PAC Grabs Hines REIT’s Last Retail Property October 20, 2016 | by Barbra Murray | Commercial Property Executive The 403,000-square-foot shopping center in Houston traded for $52 million. Houston—Preferred Apartment Communities Inc.’s acquisition of the last remaining retail asset of Hines REIT, which is in the process of dissolving, has reached completion with the purchase of…
Tennessee Cities Emerging as Office, Industrial Powerhouses October 25, 2016

Tennessee Cities Emerging as Office, Industrial Powerhouses

Tennessee Cities Emerging as Office, Industrial Powerhouses October 21, 2016 |  Robert Carr | NREIOnline Skyrocketing rents in primary office and industrial markets have pushed tenants, and investors, into high-demand secondary markets. High on the list of such markets is Tennessee. The Nashville office market currently has the nation’s lowest vacancy rate, at 4.7 percent, according to…
Commonwealth Financial eliminates commission-based retirement products in wake of DOL rule October 25, 2016

Commonwealth Financial eliminates commission-based retirement products in wake of DOL rule

Commonwealth Financial eliminates commission-based retirement products in wake of DOL rule Oct 24, 2016 @ 6:37 pm | By InvestmentNews Staff | Investment News Commonwealth Financial Network late Monday said it would stop offering commission-based products in IRAs and qualified retirement plans, making it the latest BD to move more decidedly toward to an advisory platform…

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