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Pasadena Private Lending and Eagle Point Credit Management Announce $105 Million Strategic Capital Partnership
This partnership builds on PPL’s recent expansion of its senior credit facilities and represents a significant milestone in the firm’s continued institutionalization and growth.
CIM Group Completes Coro 168-unit Apartment Community in West Adams Neighborhood of Los Angeles
For more than 20 years, CIM Group has acquired and developed real estate and infrastructure assets across communities now designated as Opportunity Zones.
SEI Reports Fourth-Quarter 2025 Financial Results
Relative to the fourth quarter 2024, EPS increased by 16%, and revenue and operating income grew by 9% and 11%, respectively, with operating margin increasing to 27%.
As of September 30, 2025, which nontraded REIT tracked by Blue Vault had the most assets under management?
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ExchangeRight Strengthens National Accounts Team with Michele Drummond’s Promotion to SVP
ExchangeRight We are excited to announce the promotion of Michele Drummond to Senior Vice President of National Accounts, further enhancing ExchangeRight’s Distribution...
SEI Appoints Robert Hum to Lead Investment Product Development and Activation
SEI SEI® (NASDAQ: SEIC) today announced that Robert Hum, CAIA, has joined as Head of Investment Product Development and Activation, reporting to Michael Lane, Head of SEI’s...
Eagle Point Securities Offers Institutional Private Credit Strategies to Private Wealth Clients
Eagle Point Securities Eagle Point Securities LLC (“Eagle Point Securities”), a wholesale distributor of alternative investment strategies to private wealth clients,...
Empower Survey Reveals Growing Advisor Support for Private Market Investments in Retirement Plans
Empower A new survey today from Empower uncovers significant advisor interest in bringing private market investments into defined contribution portfolios. Empower’s July...
Lead With Why: Storytelling Helps Sell Alts
Marketing Intent In the alternative investments space, there’s often a tendency to lead with numbers. The fund facts, the asset structure, the targeted returns. After all,...
Blue Vault’s alternative investment data includes coverage of 41 active, equity-focused tender offer funds. Which of those funds had the highest capital raise based on most recent filings?
Answer: StepStone Private Markets was the top equity-focused tender offer fund fundraiser, raising $1.1 billion for the six-month period ending March 31, 2025. Discover...
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Why Blackstone Was Able To Turn Simply Self Storage Into an Extra $1 Billion in Under Three Years
Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust’s deal to sell Simply Self Storage to Public Storage for $2.2 billion signals more than the seller collecting $1 billion over what it paid less than three years ago. It also indicates optimism about long-term self-storage demand in certain parts of the country didn’t ease with the pandemic…
Nate Oltmans: Explaining Alts to Clients
Wondering how to discuss alternative investments with clients? Advisor Nate Oltmans offers insights in this Blue Vault Minute.
NAV REITs Report Flat Median Total Returns for June
The median monthly total return for 16 continuously offered nontraded REIT programs (“NAV REITs”) was just 0.01% in June, compared to negative 0.46% in May. Eight of the 16 reported positive total returns. This is the first month since November 2022 that, as a group, the continuously offered nontraded REIT programs have reported a positive median return, albeit a very small one. Year-to-date in 2023, the median total return for the 16 REITs was negative 2.94%. By contrast, the S&P 500 Index total return over the same six-month period was 16.89% and the NAREIT All Equity REIT Index total return was 2.97%.
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‘I’ll Show You Mine, You Show Me Yours’: More Office Tenants Looking At Owners’ Books Before Signing Leases
It’s traditional in lease negotiations for the owner of an office building to ask a prospective tenant to show proof that they are in good financial standing and can be expected to pay rent every month….
New REITs Proliferate in Anticipation of Further Decline in Property Values
Four major investment firms have taken steps this month to set up nontraded real estate investment trusts so they can swoop in when property values finally adjust to a new economic reality of significantly reduced prices. The filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Sculptor Capital Management, ExchangeRight, EQT Exeter and Invesco Real Estate…
US Hotel Occupancy, Daily Rates Jump in Week Ended July 15
US hotel performance improved in all three metrics during the week ended July 15, STR reported, citing the latest data from CoStar, which provides information and analytics in the property markets. Occupancy increased to 72.0% from 61.8% a week earlier and was up 0.1% from the comparable week in 2022.
Nate Oltmans: Alts Challenges in 2023
In this BV Minute, Nate Oltmans gives an advisor’s perspective on the challenges facing alternatives this year, and some of the asset managers he uses in his practice.
How Institutional Alternative Managers Can Accelerate Capture of Retail Market Share
We recently caught up with Alliance 160’s Amanda Teeple to discover ways that institutional alternatives offerings can be packaged for RIA firms, broker-dealers and family offices. Alliance 160, a strategic consultancy that provides critical support for institutional alts managers seeking to develop products that adhere to compliance guidelines for the independent broker-dealer (IBD) and Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) channels, sees intensifying growth opportunities.
Interval Funds: The Growing Market That’s Turning Advisors on to Alts
As economic uncertainty continues to tame investment expectations, the market for interval funds and tender offer funds has grown into a fierce, $133 billion industry, 1 raising over $25 billion in capital last year alone. Interval funds are an increasingly popular allocation because they solve some of the structural and regulatory limitations associated with private funds while offering the potential to generate higher total returns…
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