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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.
Blue Vault Begins Publishing Q3 2025 Nontraded REIT & BDC Performance Reports
Nineteen Q2 2025 Nontraded BDC reports are now available for members. Track BDC performance with Blue Vault’s Individual Performance Pages.
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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...
How many new nontraded BDCs entered the market in the first quarter of 2025?
Answer: Only one new nontraded BDC was introduced in Q1 2025: First Eagle Private Credit Fund, which became effective on March 11, 2025. Discover...
Over the last five years, which quarter saw the highest capital raise for nontraded REITs?
Answer: Fundraising for nontraded REITs peaked at $12.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2021, reflecting the sector’s strongest fundraising quarter to date. Discover...
Bluerock Value Exchange Launches $37.8 Million 1031 Exchange BR Churchill Downs Multifamily DST in Pinehurst, NC
Bluerock Value Exchange Bluerock Value Exchange (BVEX), a 20-year, national sponsor of 1031 exchange and Delaware Statutory Trust (DST) investment programs, announced the...
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NexPoint Residential Trust, Inc. Announces Entrance into Contract to Sell Old Farm in Houston, TX, and Silverbrook in Dallas, TX
“NXRT is excited to execute our strategic objectives to sell out of our Houston market positions and pay off our most expensive debt capital…”
Wood Partners and GTIS Partners Opens 308-Unit Alta West Morehead Apartment Community in Uptown Charlotte Neighborhood
“Alta West Morehead is our second development in the FreeMoreWest submarket of Charlotte, and we are so excited to welcome a fresh crop of residents to their new home…”
Since 2012 in the nontraded BDC industry, how many quarters did total public industry capital raise exceed $2 billion?
As of March 31, 2023, there have been…
Converging Trends in Commercial Real Estate Markets Highlighted
A recent article by Peter Grant, who covers commercial real estate trends for the Wall Street Journal, covered a lot of territory and trends in the commercial real estate space. (See “Wall Street Is Ready to Scoop Up Commercial Real Estate on the Cheap” August 15, WSJ) Like pulling a thread from a sweater, digging into a selection of Grant’s points made in the article reveals trends in the commercial real estate market that investors and asset managers alike must pay attention to…
Return-To-Office Mandates Now Cover Nearly 2 Million Workers. Occupancy Has Barely Budged
2023 is officially the year of the return-to-office mandate, with nearly 3 million workers already under, or expected to be subject to, a new in-person work requirement in the coming months…
ExchangeRight Announces Collection of 100% of Rent Due Across Entire Net Lease AUM Inception-to-Date
All 88 of ExchangeRight’s offerings continue to meet or exceed investor distribution targets.
Hedging with Gold Has an Opportunity Cost
Judging by the number advertisements heard regularly promoting holding gold as a hedge against inflation and protection should the U.S. economy crash, one would conclude that Americans are turning to investments in gold bullion or equivalents in large numbers. The facts don’t support that conclusion. As the chart below illustrates, spot gold prices (green line) have not outperformed the stock market as represented by the S&P 500 Index (blue line) over the past six months. Plus, listed stocks pay dividends which can make up a significant portion of total returns to shareholders…
Blackstone Names Harper BREIT President While Agarwal Goes on Leave
Blackstone Inc.’s $68 billion real estate trust said its president A.J. Agarwal will go on a sabbatical for nine months and Rob Harper will fill that role…
Hiring Today Is Tough. Here’s How to Get It Right.
Hiring Today Is Tough. Here’s How to Get It Right. August 8, 2023 | Angie Herbers | ThinkAdvisor My consulting firm learns a lot about what’s going on in the industry through prospective clients that reach out to us. Firms often come to us because they’re grappling...
SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2023 Results
SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc. (“SmartStop” or “the Company”), a self-managed and fully-integrated self storage company, announced its overall results for the three months and six months ended June 30, 2023…










