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Nontraded BDC Fundraising, Asset Levels Balloon in Q3 2025
The industry enjoyed a fourth consecutive quarter of growth while continuing to generate robust total returns.
Of the 22 open, publicly offered nontraded BDCs tracked by Blue Vault in Q3 2025, how many of those offerings have fully covered their distributions year to date as of September 30, 2025?
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Bluerock Value Exchange Launches $39.4 Million 1031 Exchange BR Parkview Multifamily DST in the Atlanta Metro
Parkview multifamily offering represents BVEX’s 44th individual DST program and a continued focus of providing attractive, levered multifamily 1031 exchange investment programs.
iCapital® Announces Continued Investment in Leadership; Appoints Gary Gallagher as President
A seasoned executive with deep expertise in wealth management, industry architecture, and infrastructure, as well as asset management, will lead the company’s go-to-market activities.
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Leitbox Storage Partners Marks Nine Anniversary With Over 15,501 Units Leased
Leitbox Storage Partners Leitbox Storage Partners, a vertically integrated self-storage investment and development firm, announced today that it has surpassed a key...
Go Store It Adds Heartland Storage Portfolio to Growing Third-Party Management Platform
Madison Capital Group via Citybiz Go Store It Self Storage, one of the largest and fastest-growing privately held self-storage companies in the United States, has added...
Cottonwood Communities to Acquire RealSource in Strategic Multifamily Merger
Cottonwood Communities via SQX Alts Cottonwood Communities, Inc. (CCI) is set to take a major step forward in its multifamily real estate strategy. On June 25, the company...
Rise in Nontraded REIT Fundraising Continues in Q1 2025
Johnathan Rickman | Blue Vault While quarterly fundraising for the nontraded REIT industry is still far off its 2021 peak, the alts sector reported a second consecutive...
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...
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Trend following and the diversification potential of positive skew
Trend following and the diversification potential of positive skew April 26, 2023 | Andrew Snyder | CAIS Investors tend to rely upon well-known risk-adjusted return measures—such as Sharpe and Sortino ratios—when using alternative strategies to build diversified...
Inflation playbook – Managing through an inflation cycle
Inflation playbook – Managing through an inflation cycle April 26, 2023 | MercerInsight Community Speed read • After the 2021-2022 inflation shock, we enter 2023 with signs that cyclical inflation is easing, especially in the US. We anticipate inflation...
Don’t Be Held Hostage By PowerPoint
Don’t Be Held Hostage By PowerPoint April 26, 2023 | Marketing Intent A client we recently worked with was frustrated with their PowerPoint presentations. EVERY SLIDE WAS AN IMAGE CREATED BY A GRAPHIC DESIGNER APPEARING VERY POLISHED (AND VERY HARD TO UPDATE)....
Peakstone Webcast Fails to Buoy Stock Price
On Thursday, April 20, after markets closed for its newly listed common stock (NYSE: PKST), the REIT’s CEO Michael Escalante…
Which listed REIT that issues nontraded preferred stock invests primarily in farm land?
Which listed REIT that issues nontraded preferred stock invests primarily in farm land? Answer: Gladstone Land (NYSE: LAND) is a REIT that currently owns 169 farms comprised of 115,731 acres across 15 states in the U.S., as well as several farm-related...
Wall Street Journal Reports Home Prices Rose in February for First Time Since June 2022
Home prices rose in February from the prior month, snapping a seven-month streak of declines, as buyers competed…
How many common shares did FS Credit Real Estate Income Trust repurchase in 2022?
How many common shares did FS Credit Real Estate Income Trust repurchase in 2022? Answer: During the year ended December 31, 2022,the Company repurchased 9,091,329 shares of common stock under its share repurchase plan representing a total of...
NAV REITs Report Negative Median Total Returns for March
The median monthly total return for 16 continuously offered nontraded REIT programs (“NAV REITs”) was increasingly negative…
Blackstone assets rise 1.7% for quarter, 8.3% for year partly due to inflows
Blackstone on Thursday reported $991.3 billion in assets under management as of March 31, a 1.7% increase from three months…
US home sales fell in March in tepid homebuying season start
The spring homebuying season in the U.S. is off to a tepid start as buyers contend with sharply higher mortgage rates and near historic-low…











