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Morningstar’s Top Picks for Inflation Protection December 13, 2016

Morningstar’s Top Picks for Inflation Protection

Morningstar's Top Picks for Inflation Protection By Christine Benz | 12-07-16 | 05:00 AM | Morning Star Surveying the fund and ETF landscape, from direct hedges like TIPS to indirect inflation-fighting plays such as floating rate loans and commodities. Over the past decade, many investors have learned some hard lessons about attempting to predict the direction of inflation.…
Alternative Investment Equity Raised in November 2016 December 13, 2016

Alternative Investment Equity Raised in November 2016

Alternative Investment Equity Raised in November 2016 December 13, 2016 | by Beth Glavosek | Blue Vault Blue Vault has compiled sales data on nontraded alternative investments for the month of November. Sales for all categories of alternative investments came in at $621.8 million, and fundraising year to date is $6.27 billion*. In November, nontraded…
Nontraded BDCs Post Annualized Return of 14.7% December 9, 2016

Nontraded BDCs Post Annualized Return of 14.7%

Nontraded BDCs Post Annualized Return of 14.7% December 9, 2016 | Blue Vault Nontraded BDCs this year have produced a median annualized return of 14.7%. Through the end of September 2016, BDCs have performed exceptionally well despite the slowest capital raise in four years. "Unfortunately, many investors are missing out on these returns because financial…
Apartment Vacancy Rate Stays Low, Surprising Researchers December 8, 2016

Apartment Vacancy Rate Stays Low, Surprising Researchers

Apartment Vacancy Rate Stays Low, Surprising Researchers Dec 6, 2016 | Bendix Anderson | NREI Experts warned that hundreds of thousands of new apartments would open in 2016 and drive up the vacancy in the sector. But for most of this year, average vacancy rates stayed low. “The market has proved to be incredibly resilient,” says John…
Trading Nation: Traded real estate lags badly December 8, 2016

Trading Nation: Traded real estate lags badly

Trading Nation: Traded real estate lags badly   Monday, 5 Dec 2016 | 2:52 PM ET | CNBC Erin Gibbs, S&P Global, and Craig Johnson, Piper Jaffray, discuss the real estate investment trust sector with Brian Sullivan. News Story Located Here
Blackstone’s Schwarzman sees historic regulatory overhaul from Trump December 8, 2016

Blackstone’s Schwarzman sees historic regulatory overhaul from Trump

Blackstone's Schwarzman sees historic regulatory overhaul from Trump By By Dan Freed Published December 06, 2016 Features Reuters Blackstone Group LP Chairman and CEO Steve Schwarzman said on Tuesday he expected to see a "very substantial reversal of regulations of all types," for the financial sector, following Donald Trump's U.S. presidential election victory. Schwarzman, who…
NAFA seeks stay of DOL fiduciary rule during appeals process December 5, 2016

NAFA seeks stay of DOL fiduciary rule during appeals process

NAFA seeks stay of DOL fiduciary rule during appeals process The insurance industry group wants the April 10 applicability date of the rule extended while it pushes the case up the court chain Nov 30, 2016 @ 12:51 pm | By Mark Schoeff Jr. | Investment News An insurance industry group suing the Labor Department over an…
Office And Industrial: Buy Or Sell? December 1, 2016

Office And Industrial: Buy Or Sell?

Office And Industrial: Buy Or Sell? NOVEMBER 28, 2016 | BY CARRIE ROSSENFELD | GlobeSt.com CARLSBAD, CA—One sector has space to spare; the other is tight as can be. Lee’s Peter Merz weighs in with GlobeSt.com EXCLUSIVELY on the disparity between the two property types and the trends affecting both of them. In Carlsbad, as in…

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