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Reaching Women and Gen Z Investors During the Great Wealth Transfer
This combination of clear education and thoughtful storytelling is what resonates with the next generation of investors. It’s what builds loyalty.
Monroe Capital Supports Renovus Capital Partners’ Acquisitions of K2 Services, Epiq GBTS and Forrest Solutions
Together, K2, Epiq GBTS and Forrest will combine to redefine how businesses mobilize, creating a scaled, integrated platform that serves as the operational backbone for professional services and legal clients, enabling them to focus on their core competencies.
SEI Drives Sustained Momentum Across Global Wealth Management Markets
Demand for end-to-end wealth management experience, business transformation powers growth.
NexPoint Fully Subscribes $28 Million Lodging I DST
Accelerated closing shows strong demand for NexPoint’s first dedicated hospitality DST offering.
Recent News
Blue Vault Publishes March 31, 2025, Tender Offer Fund Reports
We have added thirty-four March 31, 2025, Tender Offer Fund Individual Performance Pages (IPPs) to Blue Vault’s research catalog. An orange font signifies that Blue...
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...
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Blackstone & QTS to spend $8bn building new data centers, as investor prepares for “once in a generation” AI boom
Blackstone’s $68 billion flagship property fund is selling assets and preparing to spend billions on data centers. The Financial Times reports that the Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, or Breit, plans to pump $8bn into building new data centers through its asset QTS Data Centers, as it predicts a surge in artificial intelligence workloads…
Investments In Nontraded REITs Up 39%, But Still Far Outpaced By Withdrawals
Fundraising shot back up in June for nontraded REITs after a moribund start to 2023, but the money raised was still far less than investors pulled out of the alternative investment vehicles, according to a new report….
Practice Management: Why Innovators Pounce When Growth Slows
If you want to see how business leaders respond to a volatile climate, there’s no better vantage point than a room full of entrepreneurs. I’ve had the privilege of belonging to my local 180-member chapter of Entrepreneurs’ Organization. EO Los Angeles has been an amazing experience for many reasons, not least of which is giving me a front-row seat to watch how different owners approach business cycles…
Barry Sternlicht: ‘Category 5 Hurricane’ Has Come For Commercial Real Estate
New distress opportunities are emerging for commercial real estate players able to weather the current storm, but buyers may need to be able to endure the current fiscal difficulties for longer than some expect, billionaire commercial real estate executive Barry Sternlicht said…
Brian Evans: Alternatives Are a True Diversification Class
Brian Evans (Founder, Madrona Financial Services) reviews five attributes of investing and how many apply to alternative investments in this Blue Vault Minute.
Concerns percolate about how SEC’s AI proposal aligns with Reg BI
An SEC proposal to eliminate conflicts of interest in financial advisors’ use of technology that predicts investor behavior is raising concerns about how it will work with Regulation Best Interest. A split Securities and Exchange Commission voted 3-2 Wednesday to release a proposal for public comment that would require brokerages and investment advisory firms to “eliminate or neutralize” conflicts related to conducting investor interactions through artificial intelligence, predictive data analytics and similar technology…
Blue Vault Expands Coverage of Tender Offer Funds
Blue Vault’s coverage of tender offer funds expands with first-time reporting on ten offerings. See below for a complete list of all the newly-published classic pdf reports. Tender Offer Funds -AB Multi-Manager Alternative Fund March 31, 2023 NEW! -AIP Alternative...
Blackstone’s EQ Office sells Costa Mesa office campus at 10% loss
Blackstone has sold an office campus in Costa Mesa for $91.5 million — about 10 percent less than what it assembled it for between 2013 and 2015. MGR Real Estate, run by Michael Rademaker, bought the 553,000-square-foot complex at 3070 and 3100 Bristol Street, according to Orange County property records. The sale came to about $165 per square foot…
US commercial property delinquencies rise further in July, report says
Nearly $12 billon of loans in U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) became newly delinquent, pushing the late payment rate up by 34 basis points from June to 3.93%, a report by credit rating agency KBRA said on Wednesday…
Brian Evans: Vetting Alts Sponsors for Your Practice
In this Blue Vault Minute, Brian Evans (Founder, Madrona Financial Services) talks about the factors he considers when choosing which alts sponsors to work with in his practice.











