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ExchangeRight Announces Full Subscription of $41.9 Million Net-Leased All-Cash 17 DST
Net-Leased All-Cash 17 DST is a closed offering and is not accepting new investors.
Is Your Digital Presence Working for or Against You?
Before a prospect ever takes a meeting, downloads a deck, or responds to outreach, they visit your website.
What is a semi-liquid fund?
Tax-loss harvesting, in principle, lets investors capitalize on negative performance during periods of market stress.
From Email Sends to Meaningful Engagement: Why Marketing Automation Needs a Human Strategy
Alternative investment firms need multiple touchpoints to help advisors understand their firm, their offerings, and their broader market perspective.
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Mentenova and SEI Partner for Global Equity Investments
SEI SEI® (NASDAQ:SEIC), a leading global provider of investment, technology, and operations solutions, and Mentenova, a South African investment management and advisory...
Inside the V(ALT) with Marketing Intent
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Content Leverage and Reuse: Marketing With a Lean Team
Cherie Fournier and Alise Lucero offer guidance on repurposing and extending the shelf life of marketing content—helping sponsors strengthen fundraising and advisor...
Smart Use of Tools & Automation: Marketing With a Lean Team
Cherie Fournier and Alise Lucero share insights on using automation tools to maximize efficiency, expand reach, and support sustainable marketing for small...
Strategic Outsourcing: Marketing with a Lean Team
Cherie Fournier and Alise Lucero share insights on which marketing functions sponsors should outsource when in-house expertise is limited, and how to choose the right...
In the first half of 2025, Blackstone Private Credit Fund raised the most capital of the nontraded BDCs tracked by Blue Vault. Which nontraded BDC was the second-largest fundraiser?
Answer: In the first half of 2025, Blue Owl Credit Income Corp. was the second-largest fundraiser of the nontraded BDCs tracked by Blue Vault, raising $3.4 billion. As of...
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Using Your CRM To Help Build Advisor Relationships
Using Your CRM To Help Build Advisor Relationships June 26, 2023 | Marketing Intent It’s time to ditch the Excel spreadsheet. Let’s talk about CRM systems, why they’re important and how they’re beneficial to help build relationships with advisors. The Purpose of...
What is Document Custody for Private Investments?
What is Document Custody for Private Investments? April 28, 2023 | Pete Bergman | UMB Document custody for private investments is the practice of securely storing and managing legal agreements, contracts, transaction records, and other relevant documents. Private...
Understanding Fund Custody: Private Versus Publicly Offered Fund Vehicles
Understanding Fund Custody: Private Versus Publicly Offered Fund Vehicles May 12, 2023 | Amy Small | UMB When managers of private funds decide to launch a strategy as a registered mutual fund–such as an interval fund, tender fund, or a daily NAV fund— the topic of...
Wave Of Distressed CRE Loans Reaches $64B, With Retail, Office Hardest Hit
The long-anticipated wave of distressed CRE assets is closer to realization, with total distressed assets coming in at $64B during Q1 2023, Bloomberg reports, citing a new report by MSCI Real Assets…
Owl Rock Capital Corporation Announces Upcoming Name and Ticker Change to Blue Owl Capital Corporation
Owl Rock Capital Corporation (NYSE: ORCC, or the “Company”) today announced that it will soon be changing its name, ticker, and website. The Company’s board of directors has already approved these changes and no shareholder vote is required…
California Self Storage Operator Vaults to Fifth Largest Player in Canada
California-based SmartStop Self Storage REIT is expanding in Canada’s largest city, adding eight facilities in the greater Toronto area for $CA300 million…
SmartStop Adds Eight Self-Storage Facilities in the Greater Toronto Area for Approximately CAD $300 Million
SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc. (“SmartStop” or the “Company”), a self-managed and fully integrated self-storage company, announced today that its affiliates, Strategic Storage Trust VI, Inc. and Strategic Growth Trust III, Inc…
How Cash Ratios Are Trending for NTRs
A recent article on S&P Capital IQ stated that the cash ratios of non-investment grade-rated companies were “squeezed further” in the first quarter of 2023. The article used the median measure of cash and equivalents as a share of total liabilities of companies rated…
ExchangeRight Successfully Completes 32nd Full-Cycle Event, with Annualized Returns Ranging 8.25%–9.75%
ExchangeRight, one of the nation’s leading providers of diversified real estate DST and REIT investments, has announced the successful completion of its Net-Leased Preferred Equity Fund 3 (“NLPEF 3”), a fund that consistently generated 8.25%–9.75% annualized returns to investors throughout the offering’s six-year lifespan. The liquidation of NLPEF 3 marked the 32nd successful full-cycle event ExchangeRight has executed on behalf of investors out of a total 87 offerings created…
Real Estate Cap Rates and the Slow Wheels of Progress
Differences in cap rates capture the divergence that occurred between U.S. public and private real estate markets in 2022, with public real estate cap rates (REIT implied) higher than their private real estate counterparts (transaction and appraisal). As expected, the gaps between REIT implied…
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