Professional SErvices News
read the latest about the firms transforming how wealth advisors implement alts in their practices
Headlines
Why Social Media Delivers Even When Engagement Looks Invisible
When executed with a deliberate, long-term strategy, social media becomes less about instant feedback and more about sustained influence.
Blue Vault Webinars: Keeping Advisors Informed and Alts-Smart
Keeping advisors up to date on industry trends and innovations is a core part of Blue Vault’s mission to expand understanding of alternative investments.
Gladstone Alternative Income Fund Announces Increase in Monthly Cash Distribution for December 2025
The distributions will be paid on December 31, 2025, for DRIP participants and January 2, 2026, for non-DRIP participants.
John Hancock Closed-End Funds Declare Quarterly Distributions
Manulife John Hancock Investments serve investors through a unique multimanager approach, complementing our extensive in-house capabilities with an unrivaled network of specialized asset managers, backed by some of the most rigorous investment oversight in the industry.
Recent News
Boost Advisor Engagement with Video
Marketing Intent Explaining a complex investment strategy can be challenging—especially over coffee, where diagrams on napkins and animated gestures may leave your audience...
Legendary Capital Announces Sale of Two Hilton Garden Inn Hotels
Legendary Capital Legendary Capital, a leading hotel asset management firm, recently announced the successful sale of the Hilton Garden Inn Charlotte North in Charlotte, NC...
PGIM to merge public/private credit units into $1tn platform
PGIM via Citywire PGIM’s newly minted president and CEO, Jacques Chappuis, is already plotting organizational changes at the firm, including merging the company’s public...
NexPoint Launches Lodging I DST Offering for the Residence Inn Salt Lake City – West Jordan
NexPoint NexPoint, a multibillion-dollar alternative investment firm, today announced the launch of NexPoint Lodging I DST, a Delaware Statutory Trust (“DST”)...
Blue Vault Publishes New Interval Fund Reports
Blue Vault’s research catalog now includes the following March 31, 2025, Interval Fund Individual Performance Pages (IPPs) : Interval Funds BlueBay Destra...
Essential Income REIT – Only in its Class to Fully Cover 2024 Distributions with AFFO According to Blue Vault
ExchangeRight ExchangeRight has announced that the Essential Income REIT was the only Growth and Stabilizing Non-Traded REIT (“NTR”) that fully covered its distributions...
More articles…
Is Every Commercial Office Property in Trouble?
Why Not All Office Space Is Created Equal
Blackstone Is the First Alternative Asset Manager to Hit $1 Trillion AUM. So Where Does It Go From Here?
In July, Blackstone BX reported that it had surpassed $1 trillion in total assets under management during the second quarter of 2023, being the first alternative asset manager to cross that threshold. A bit of background to start: “Alternative asset management” is an umbrella term for asset managers that specialize in private market investment strategies like private equity, private debt, or real assets, or in strategies that invest in publicly traded securities in a nontraditional manner, like hedge funds or funds of funds. (I am oversimplifying a bit—there is some overlap between these groups.)
Legendary Capital Expands Team with Two New Wholesaling Vice Presidents
Legendary Capital, LLC, a leading Alternative Investment Sponsor, is delighted to announce the recent addition of Devon Gasparovic and Robin Boccardi to its distribution team as wholesaling vice presidents. These strategic hires mark another significant step in the company’s ongoing commitment to strengthening its distribution capabilities and providing superior partnering services to financial advisors across the country…
Apollo Funds acquires Accent family of companies
Apollo Funds, a global alternative asset manager based in New York, has acquired the Accent family of companies, a Tomball, Texas-based full service, value-added industrial distribution company focused on the waste, recycling and building materials industries that includes Accent Wire-Tie, Accent Wire-Tie United Kingdom and Accent Building Materials…
Cove Capital Investments Completes the Acquisition of Two Long-Term Net Lease Properties as Part of Its Debt-Free Texas Net Lease 67 DST
Cove Capital Investments Completes the Acquisition of Two Long-Term Net Lease Properties as Part of Its Debt-Free Texas Net Lease 67 DST August 17, 2023 | Cove Capital Investments Cove Capital Investments, LLC, a private equity real estate firm and Delaware Statutory...
NAV REITs Report Positive Median Total Returns for July
The median monthly total return for 16 continuously offered nontraded REIT programs (“NAV REITs”) was 0.21% in July, compared to just 0.01% in June. Ten of the 16 reported positive total returns.
Hines Global Income Trust Acquires Logistics Center in Columbus
Hines, the global real estate investment, development, and property manager, announced that Hines Global Income Trust, Inc. (“HGIT”) has acquired I-70 Logistics Center located at 9157 Mink Street SW in Columbus, Ohio, a distribution center that is 100% leased to a third-party logistics provider.
Sluggish CRE Lending Persists: CBRE
In the face of market uncertainty, CRE lending slowed in the second quarter, according to CBRE. The company’s Lending Momentum Index fell from 204 in the first quarter to 193 in the second quarter, representing declines of 5.4 percent from the first quarter and 52.2 percent year-over-year….
95% Of Advisors Plan To Maintain Or Increase Alt Investments, iCapital Survey Says
Fully 95% of advisors surveyed said they plan to maintain or even increase their exposure to alternative investments, a largely unregulated and illiquid asset class, over the next 12 months, according to iCapital….
Optimism Is Returning To Battle-Tested Retail Sector — But More Importantly, So Are Investors NationalInvestment
After years of trepidation, institutional money is flowing back into retail. Crow Holdings and Lincoln Property Co. are among the prominent firms that have launched new endeavors aimed at spending billions of dollars to acquire more retail real estate…











