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Closed DSTs: The 10 Largest Reported Distribution-Rate Gaps
Blue Vault compares the 10 largest reported distribution-rate gaps among closed DST offerings with nonzero rates. The ranking includes above- and below-projection results, sponsor names, property types and equity raised.
A DST Doesn’t Always End With a Property Sale: What Advisors Should Know About Exit Paths
New research into hundreds of DST outcomes shows why advisors may want to ask more questions about an investment’s eventual exit before clients enter it.
Opportunity Zones 2.0 Is Getting Its Map: The Next Phase Begins Now
The first pieces of the QOZ 2.0 investment map are falling into place, shifting attention from new rules to where the next opportunities may emerge.
The Next Step for Alternatives: Moving Private Markets Inside the Managed Account
A recent platform expansion illustrates how private markets are beginning to move from a separate alternatives workflow into the technology advisors use every day.
Recent News
Now on SEI Access™: ExchangeRight’s Essential Income REIT and REIT Fast-Track DSTs
ExchangeRight ExchangeRight, one of the nation’s leading providers of diversified real estate REIT and DST investments, has announced that its Essential Income REIT and REIT...
Before You Use a DST: What Do You Know About the Sponsor?
Most DST due diligence starts with the offering in front of the advisor: the property, projected distribution, leverage, tenants and exit strategy. Those factors matter. But...
How a $1 Billion Joint Venture Can Help a Nontraded REIT Unlock Capital Without Selling the Portfolio
Starwood Real Estate Income Trust has found another way to generate capital from its real estate portfolio without selling the properties outright. The nontraded REIT formed...
HPS Corporate Lending Fund Receives Repurchase Requests for 11.5% of Outstanding Shares
HPS Corporate Lending Fund received third-quarter repurchase requests representing approximately 11.5% of its shares outstanding as of June 30, exceeding the nontraded BDC’s...
InPoint Cuts Monthly Distribution by 75% and Plans Strategic Review
InPoint Commercial Real Estate Income, Inc. has reduced its gross monthly common-stock distribution from $0.1042 to $0.026 per share, a decrease of approximately 75%. The...
Inland Acquires Class A Self-Storage Facility in Joliet, Illinois
The Inland Real Estate Group Inland Real Estate Acquisitions, LLC (“Inland Acquisitions”) announced today that it negotiated and closed the purchase of an 859-unit, Class A...
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AI’s $500 Billion Capital Need Is Creating a New Private Markets Opportunity
Six of the world’s largest financial firms are joining NVIDIA in an ambitious financing effort that could reshape how investors gain exposure to the AI boom.
When Pension Money Seeds a Wealth-Channel Fund, Advisors Should Take Notice
A significant pension commitment to an interval fund headed for major wealth platforms highlights an interesting convergence between institutional and individual-investor alternatives.
Tender Offer Funds Are Opening Another Door to Institutional Hedge Fund Strategies
A new advisory partnership is bringing an institutional hedge fund strategy further into the wealth channel through a structure advisors are seeing more often.
Private Infrastructure Moves Further Into the Wealth Channel
Another traditionally institutional asset class is making its way into wealth portfolios, and a newly launched interval fund illustrates how that transition is occurring.
Q2 BDC Capital Raise: Where Did the Money Move?
BDC capital raise fell 51% in Q2 2026, but the headline decline doesn’t tell the whole story. Blue Vault’s latest analysis shows where market share shifted, which BDCs gained ground, and how fundraising momentum changed as the overall market contracted.











