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Partners Capital and iCapital® Expand Access to Institutional-Quality Private Equity for Wealth Managers and Their Clients
The collaboration brings an institutional-quality private equity strategy to the wealth channel, leveraging advanced technology to empower advisors and investors.
Asset Performance, Not Fundraising Defines DST Space
If your investor client’s final destination is a REIT, then the performance of the REIT’s underlying assets should dictate your DST investment decision.
Griffin Capital Executes Strategic Acquisition of a Build-to-Rent Community in Jenks, OK
Griffin Capital’s investment team is exclusively focused on the rental housing segment of the market, with strategies targeting multifamily, build-to-rent, and student housing investments.
Madison Capital Merges BlueGate Boat & RV Brand Into Go Store It Self-Storage Platform, Launches Marina Division
Madison Marinas has been established as a standalone division to manage the firm’s marina portfolio, which currently includes five assets in Florida, North Carolina and Tennessee.
Recent News
Blue Vault Publishes 4-30-2025 Interval Fund, Tender Offer Fund Reports
Blue Vault added nine Interval Fund and five Tender Offer Fund Individual Performance Pages (IPPs) to its research catalog. An orange font signifies that Blue Vault is...
Capital Square Housing Trust Launches $40 Million Preferred Stock Offering
Capital Square Capital Square Housing Trust, a real estate investment trust (REIT) sponsored by Capital Square, announced today the offering of up to four million shares of...
Smart Marketing Keeps Advisors Coming Back
Marketing Intent There’s something we’ve been hearing loud and clear lately. And if you’re paying attention to your feedback loop, you’re probably hearing it too. It’s not...
Blue Vault’s alternative investment data includes coverage of 50 active tender offer funds. Which tender offer fund had the highest capital raise based on the most recent filing?
Answer: StepStone Private Markets was the top tender offer fund fundraiser, raising gross proceeds of approximately $1.1 billion for the six-month period ending March 31,...
The Lowdown on UPREITs: Keeping Investment Property in Play
Johnathan Rickman | Blue Vault As the majority of real estate investors enter retirement age and seek to preserve their income, capital, and tax benefits with passive...
Christine Russo Promoted to COO of Madison Capital Group Holdings
Madison Capital Group via Citybiz Madison Capital Group Holdings, a leading developer and operator of high-quality, suburban multifamily communities, self-storage,...
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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…










