FS Investments started as Franklin Square Capital Partners in 2007. The firm currently has in excess of $23 billion in assets under management in 11 funds, with 300 colleagues nationwide...

In this article, we look at various players in the alternative investments industry and identify who they are and what they do. The many firms involved...

When government looks for ways to foster economic development generally or investment in specific sectors or technologies...

After more than a decade of sponsoring institutional-quality investments for retail investors, CION Investments believes that the time is right to...

During a time when BDCs have been on a downward trend, Owl Rock Capital Partners has ...

At a time when annual sales of nontraded BDCs have fallen from $6 billion four years ago to less than $1 billion by the end of 2017,...

In this article, we further explore the functioning and potential that the blockchain-enabled distributed ledger trading platform called Velocity Ledger (“VL”) brings to the nontraded REIT industry specifically and the broader market for alternative investments generally.

Blue Vault recently discussed the coming Velocity Ledger (“VL”) blockchain-enabled trading platform for nontraded REIT shares, DSTs, limited partnership interests in joint ventures, and eventually, individual commercial real estate properties and portfolios, with two of the company’s principals, Jon Haahr of Silver Portal Capital and Julian Jacobson of Fundamental Interactions (“FI”).

How REITs Make Money Equity REITs can make money in two ways: collecting rent from tenants and through capital appreciation in their property values. Different REITs have different strategies for making money. You can find information about a REIT’s strategies in its prospectus. Usually, there’s a return objective to meet for investors, as well as…