It should be no surprise that leading wealth advisers, including Charles Schwab, Vanguard and others, have taken their advisory platforms online. Betterment, an online robo-adviser, has only been in existence since 2008 but now manages $16.4 billion in assets. How can an online advisory provider such as Betterment attain considerably more AUM than many brick-and-mortar advisory firms that have been around for 50 years or more? The answer: Effective technology and a strong online presence.

The Jewish Senior Life campus in Rochester, N.Y., is not small latkes. With 1,000 employees, it is one of the largest employers in the city as it offers such services for the elderly as independent living, assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing, adult daycare and outpatient programming. The community even has its own IT (information technology) department, which developed a mobile app called JSL Connect. It is downloadable from iTunes and Android stores. Recently, the senior community formally connected with the Rochester Institute of Technology to innovate tech programs throughout the campus.

The Green New Deal, proposed by progressive members of the Democratic Party earlier this year, has been derided and stalled at the federal level, but it is beginning to germinate in some U.S. cities, large and small. The Green New Deal calls for public investment in renewable energy and the power grid in an effort to achieve decarbonization.

Talk of mining asteroids and planets for commodities needed for industries on Earth has been escalating lately. Both private space companies and federal agencies regard the mining of water and precious materials from stellar bodies as a new industry in the offing.

What is the best route for investors in real estate in 2019? Steady as you go or all change? The outlook for real estate fundamentals globally in 2019 remains generally positive, although the pace of improvement appears to be moderating amidst a slowing global-economic-growth backdrop. A slowing in the pace of monetary-policy normalization appears set to provide an extended window of opportunity for execution of existing strategies in the capital markets. Taken together, this suggests promising conditions for investors to keep moving forward steadily on their existing route.

Opportunistic investors that raced into the single-family rental market a decade ago on the heels of the housing crash are finding the story has changed. Now, instead of bargain-basement prices, the sector boasts improved operating efficiencies that are helping to generate steady yields and attract capital with longer-term strategies.

Industrial real estate — widely considered the “property type of the year” for years running — might be seeing its reign come to an end. According to a new forecast published by the Deloitte Center for Financial Services, it may not be easy for the industrial sector (encompassing warehouses, distribution centers, flex spaces and other industrial buildings with storage facilities) to sustain its momentum over the next few years.

Space is more important to modern business than most investors realize. It plays a role in making food, pricing insurance, and steering self-driving cars. While moonshot projects from SpaceX to Blue Origin drive headlines, the Earth-facing space economy is booming thanks to plummeting costs of entry. As tech companies large and small compete to launch thousands of satellites, it is easy to forget that space used to be the domain of national governments. Today, it is fast becoming the arena of private enterprise.

Digital technologies are changing virtually everything, and investment is no exception. Digital assets and securities are in the offing and, if they live up to their billing, will bring many new opportunities to investors. One of the avid observers of this tech wave is Scotte Carter, co-CEO of Monolith Global Partners. (along with co-CEO Chad White).

One of the most striking things about Joseph Zidle is that he personally replies to emails sent to his address — and swiftly. There is no executive assistant with a yoga instructor’s velvety voice, no phalanx of communications professionals running interference, and no cadre of compliance officers ensuring that anything said adds up to one big equivocation. It’s just Joe.