The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and for that we can largely blame policies of envy that increasingly restrict investors’ access to wealth-building instruments.

The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada has granted approval of Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners’ 25-year power-purchase agreement with NV Energy for the 690-megawatt AC Gemini Solar + Battery Storage Project in Clark County, Nev.

Financial distress can be a profitable alternative investment, provided you have the cash to rescue otherwise viable companies from a financial pinch or even circumstantial bankruptcy. Sponsors of distress debt funds have been stockpiling cash in anticipation of the next economic downturn and are now armed to the teeth with the financial resources to profit by aiding of troubled companies struggling to pay their obligations. What they could not have anticipated is that the United States was in the midst of its longest economic recovery and expansion in the country’s history, and now it is the holders of distressed debt funds in need of relief.

Eric Kittner had a front-row seat for one of the biggest corporate calamities in U.S. business history. At the time he was a staff accountant for Arthur Andersen, the $8 billion accounting and consulting giant, when one of its most high-profile clients, Enron Corp., went into full collapse, filing for the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history at the time. Enron shareholders filed a $40 billion lawsuit against the company after Enron’s stock prices plunged from a high of $90.75 per share in mid-2000 to less than $1 by the end of November 2001.

KKR and XPV Water Partners, a firm that invests in water-focused companies, have launched a wastewater treatment platform to address water nutrient contamination around the globe.

Understanding the complexities of private equity and how value is created in such investments are the first steps in investing in an asset class that is gradually becoming more accessible to individual investors. Private equity is often ruled out of a portfolio, but it shouldn’t be. As long as investors understand the risks and have no short-term liquidity needs, there are several ways to participate in a private equity investment.

The recovery from the 2008 global financial crisis is the longest in the economic annals, leading pundits to ponder whether 2020 can stay friend to the trend. Certainly there are threats to prosperity, from geopolitical tensions to trade tussles to the possibility that central banks have run out of ammo. With interest rates already negative in Europe and Japan, and low in the United States, the usual central bank fix for recessions, that of even lower interest rates, might lack effectiveness.

If you want to better understand the potential hazards facing oil investing, let’s spend a little time reviewing the years-delayed IPO planned by Aramco, the Saudi state-owned oil giant. Though the Aramco IPO is finally appearing imminent and is expected to be the largest-ever initial public offering, it has been riddled with problems tied to the oil business’s vulnerability.

Private jet travel is booming, and not just because it makes a heady status symbol. It also offers a host of advantages and investment opportunities. Skift, a hospitality news service, asserts that private aviation is shaking up traditional luxury markets — adding private aviation services to expenditure like those on second homes and yachts. The research firm Mordor Intelligence reports the market for business jets is anticipated to reach $19.95 billion in 2024. Michael Fisher, COO of the Greensboro, N.C. office for Diversified Trust, has been closely following the private aviation business.

Affordable housing has become a critical topic in California — and several technology giants have pledged billions of dollars to fund its development.

Eleven private wealth executives offer their opinions about what advisers and investors can expect in 2020.

The financial advisory business has been on a 10-year bull run with growing revenue, assets and profits. But according to the recently published 2019 Adviser Compensation & Staffing Study, sponsored by Pershing, cracks are beginning to emerge.

The U.S. lodging industry will remain strong through the next two years, despite forecasts that revenue growth will continue to diminish, reports CBRE Hotels Research.

Ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) individuals — those with a net worth of at least $30 million — gave a total of $153 billion toward philanthropic endeavors in 2018 — roughly equivalent to all U.S. federal government spending on healthcare, education and energy expected for 2019, according to The New Normal: Trends in UHNW Giving 2019, the fourth edition of Wealth-X’s report focused on philanthropic giving by the world’s wealthiest individuals.

It seems that stocks have been balanced on a hair trigger in 2019, ready to spike or plunge at the slightest provocation of investor expectations about trade-deal progress or adjustment of the federal funds rate. All this turmoil has somewhat overshadowed the solid performance of housing stocks.