Urban redevelopment is a familiar story in metros across the country. In the New York City metropolitan area alone, submarkets in parts of Brooklyn, the Bronx, Jersey City and Hoboken (just to name a few) are many years into facelifts that encompass thousands of new apartment units mixed with office, retail and entertainment uses that create a live-work-play environment.

Are foreign stocks finally emerging into the sunlight from hibernation? From January 2010 to December 2016, overseas stocks (as measured by the MSCI World ex USA Index) returned just 3.64 percent annualized, compared to 12.83 percent for the S&P 500 Index. The cumulative return for U.S. stocks during those seven fat years was 133 percent, more than 100 percentage points ahead of the meager reward investors earned for their patience with foreign stocks. But in 2017, year-to-date to July 31, 2017, international equities returned 17.1 percent versus 12.1 percent for the S&P 500 Index.

Congress should privatize federally owned businesses such as Amtrak, the postal service and the air traffic control system. Privatization would cut costs and improve customer service. It would also boost U.S. innovation and exports.

American infrastructure is in dire need of repair and replacement. Yet decades of experience have shown us that simply showering federal money on infrastructure is not the right solution. Indeed, this approach has been shown to encourage wasteful spending on projects that are politically expedient but economically dubious.

Demographics are destiny. The longevity revolution. The silver tsunami. Baby boomers aging. They are popular phrases and ones that continue to influence broad-based investor interest in the senior housing asset class. The reality is, however, that baby boomers (i.e., those born between 1946 and 1964, ages 53 to 71) are not today’s senior housing residents. Today’s residents are an earlier generation and part of either the Greatest Generation, born between 1901 and 1924 and currently 92 years or older, or of the Silent Generation, born between 1925 and 1945 and currently between the ages of 72 and 92. The move-in age to a senior housing property (either assisted living or independent living) is often older than 84. Baby boomers in general have another decade or longer before they become residents.

Although wind and photovoltaics are today’s poster children for renewable energy, hydropower has been around much longer and now boasts plants that have been operating reliably for more than 100 years, some of them with original equipment.

Fortunately for Amy Raskin, life did not always go according to plan. She had no particular calling in life when she headed off to the University of Pennsylvania to pursue an engineering degree, despite having “no idea” how she would apply it professionally.

The global commodities complex climbed out of its 2017 lows during a solid late-June rally, according to a summary from Franklin Templeton Investments. The firm based its report on measures provided by the benchmark Thomson Reuters/CoreCommodity CRB Index (CRB).

Investors can generate 8 percent to 10 percent returns from a diversified and conservatively leveraged portfolio of REIT Preferred Stocks (REIT Prefs) with lower volatility and far greater security than a portfolio of REIT common shares. In contrast to the over $1 trillion market for REIT common stocks, the less than $30 billion market for fixed or fixed-to-floating (not convertible) REIT Prefs is a niche market especially well suited to family offices, wealth managers and high-net-worth individuals seeking solid current income and preservation of capital.

Global philanthropic funds, even when combined with the development or aid budgets of governments, add up into the mere billions of dollars. Meanwhile, the cost of solving the world’s most critical problems runs into the trillions, according to the Rockefeller Foundation, including an estimated $2.5 trillion annual funding gap needed to achieve the sustainable development goals in developing countries alone. Private capital is urgently needed in order to fill this gap and address pressing global challenges.