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August 1, 2023

Blue Vault Expands Coverage of Tender Offer Funds

Blue Vault’s coverage of tender offer funds expands with first-time reporting on ten offerings. See below for a complete list of all the newly-published classic pdf reports. Tender Offer Funds -AB Multi-Manager Alternative Fund March 31, 2023 NEW! -AIP Alternative Lending Fund A March 31, 2023 NEW! -Alpha Core Strategies Fund March 31, 2023 NEW!…

August 1, 2023

Blackstone’s EQ Office sells Costa Mesa office campus at 10% loss

Blackstone has sold an office campus in Costa Mesa for $91.5 million — about 10 percent less than what it assembled it for between 2013 and 2015. MGR Real Estate, run by Michael Rademaker, bought the 553,000-square-foot complex at 3070 and 3100 Bristol Street, according to Orange County property records. The sale came to about $165…

August 1, 2023

US commercial property delinquencies rise further in July, report says

Nearly $12 billon of loans in U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) became newly delinquent, pushing the late payment rate up by 34 basis points from June to 3.93%, a report by credit rating agency KBRA said on Wednesday...

August 1, 2023

Brian Evans: Vetting Alts Sponsors for Your Practice

In this Blue Vault Minute, Brian Evans (Founder, Madrona Financial Services) talks about the factors he considers when choosing which alts sponsors to work with in his practice.

August 1, 2023

What Government Can and Cannot Do to Make Housing “Affordable”

The U.S. has a “housing shortage” and a popular part of that theme today is an “affordable housing” shortage. Honest economists would have to question that conclusion...

August 1, 2023

Blackstone NAV REIT Performance Outshines Cash Flow Concerns

Despite indications that Blackstone’s nontraded real estate investment trust (NAV REIT) has struggled to deliver on redemptions, the diversified fund has shown “consistently better” total returns than its peers, proving its post-pandemic staying power, Blue Vault researchers say. As more second-quarter data become available, we’re finding that Blackstone’s Real Estate Income Trust has outperformed or…

August 1, 2023

IRS Extends Relief to 2023 for SECURE Act Era Designated Beneficiaries

The Internal Revenue Service recently issued Notice 2023-54, in which they waived the excise tax on 2023 required minimum distribution failures committed by designated beneficiaries. This extends the waiver already provided for 2021 and 2022 under Notice 2022-53....

August 1, 2023

Private equity fundraising down 35% in Q2, Preqin says

Private equity funds worldwide had a difficult time on the fundraising trail in the second quarter, raising a combined $106.7 billion, down from $164.4 billion in the prior quarter and also down from $165.3 billion in the year-earlier quarter, according to a just-released Preqin report....

July 31, 2023

REITs: What’s Ahead for the Second Half of 2023

As we look ahead to the second half of 2023, the economic and commercial real estate (CRE) environment will continue to be shaped by global central banks’ fight against inflationary pressures that have been more persistent than expected....