Other HighTower makes strategic investment in Lexington Wealth Management HighTower has made a strategic investment in Lexington Wealth Management.
Other Bluespring Wealth Partners acquires Hickory Asset Management Bluespring Wealth Partners, a new business focused on acquiring experienced RIA and wealth management firms,…
Other First Trust launches First Trust EIP Carbon Impact ETF First Trust Advisors has launched the First Trust EIP Carbon Impact ETF.
From the Current Issue Digital platforms are opening doors to alternatives by Sheila Hopkins During the past couple of decades, institutional investors have steadily added alternative investments — hedge funds, private equity, commodities, real assets, etc. — to their portfolios in an effort to reduce volatility from public securities, while increasing returns above fixed-income dividend levels. Instead of the traditional 60/40 split often found in private investment portfolios, institutions now typically divide their portfolios into many largely uncorrelated asset classes, with a large percentage targeting alternative investments. Large endowments, such as Yale and Harvard, have more than 50 percent of their allocations in alternative sectors.
From the Current Issue Roundtable: Technology and investing by contributing executives Technology is increasingly on the minds of investors as they do their best to get their arms around rapidly unfolding tech-related issues. Technology is evolving so quickly it is difficult to keep pace, let alone understand its implications for investors, or how to integrate it into critical processes.
Energy GlidePath acquires wind portfolio in North Texas GlidePath Power Solutions, an independent energy storage developer, has acquired a 149-megawatt portfolio of wind…
Real Estate VanWest Partners launches self-storage fund, buys two assets VanWest Partners has launched VanWest Storage Fund I.
Real Estate CIM Group buys Austin tower CIM Group has acquired Chase Tower, a 21-story, approximately 390,000-square-foot, class A office building with…
From the Current Issue Rise of the Sunbelt: Outsized commercial real estate investment opportunities can be found in the region by Mike Consol The ongoing and rapid growth in the U.S. Sunbelt has been an extraordinary boon to commercial real estate investors, says a new report from Clarion Partners. The Sunbelt — the region stretching across 18 states in the Southeast and Southwest, including seven of the 10 largest U.S. cities, as well as many midsize metropolitan statistical areas — now holds about 50 percent of the national population, and is expected to rise to about 55 percent by 2030. Over the past decade, the region accounted for 75 percent of total U.S. population growth.
From the Current Issue Hotel projects by the thousands by Andrea Zander The franchise companies leading the U.S. hotel construction pipeline are Marriott International with 1,469 projects (193,458 rooms), up 9 percent by projects and rooms year-over-year, according to Lodging Econometrics (LE), followed by Hilton Worldwide with 1,372 projects (152,853 rooms), a 3 percent increase over 2018, and InterContinental Hotels Group with has 962 projects (97,647 rooms), also up 3 percent by projects and rooms compared with the year past.