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Blackstone’s Q3 Results Show Diverging Real Estate Performance
Blackstone’s Q3 2026 results highlight differences between opportunistic and Core+ real estate performance—and why strategy matters when comparing investments.
Beyond the REIT Fundraising Leaderboard: Five Questions Every Advisor Should Ask
Fundraising rankings tell only part of a REIT’s story. Blue Vault explores five questions advisors should ask about strategy, returns, investor flows, and risk.
KKR Agrees to Sell Infinity Transportation to Ares for $2.9 Billion
Ares infrastructure and insurance funds have agreed to acquire Infinity Transportation from KKR for approximately $2.9 billion in enterprise value.
Mount Logan Plans to Become Adviser to AFA Asset Based Lending Fund
Mount Logan has agreed to become adviser to the approximately $230 million AFA Asset Based Lending Fund, with closing expected in Q1 2027, subject to approvals.
Recent News
North Haven Private Income Fund Prorates Repurchases for Third Consecutive Quarter
North Haven Private Income Fund will prorate shareholder repurchase requests for the third consecutive quarter after requests once again exceeded the nontraded business...
SkyBridge Opportunity Fund Limits Oversubscribed Tender to 7.66% of Each Request
SkyBridge Opportunity Fund will purchase approximately 7.66% of the shares submitted by each participating investor in its latest tender offer after repurchase requests...
RREEF Property Trust Approves Plan to Liquidate and Dissolve
RREEF Property Trust’s board has unanimously approved a plan to liquidate the nontraded REIT, sell its assets, distribute the remaining proceeds to stockholders, and...
KKR Real Estate Select Trust Makes Early Contribution Under NAV-Support Plan
KKR Real Estate Select Trust disclosed that an adviser affiliate has contributed approximately one-quarter of the shares committed under the fund’s shareholder-priority...
How Much DST Sponsor History is Actually Available?
Current DST offerings provide important information about an investment available today. But when advisors evaluate a sponsor, the current offering is only part of the...
Ares Real Estate Income Trusts Raise Monthly Distributions as Fundraising Outpaces Redemptions
Ares Real Estate Income Trust and Ares Industrial Real Estate Income Trust increased their monthly gross distributions for August after keeping the previous rates in place...
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Are BDC Investors Buying Performance or Something Else?
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.
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.










