Members of Donald Trump's DOL landing team oppose fiduciary rule While the president-elect's pick to head DOL hasn't said anything about the rule, others on the team have objected to it Dec 14, 2016 @ 1:23 pm | By Mark Schoeff Jr | Investment News Although President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of labor may be a…

Preferred Apartment Communities, Inc. Announces Agreement to Acquire a Class A Office Building in Atlanta, Georgia December 8, 2016 | Source Preferred Apartment Communities, Inc. | Tucson News Now SOURCE Preferred Apartment Communities, Inc. ATLANTA, Dec. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Preferred Apartment Communities, Inc. (NYSE: APTS) ("PAC" or the "Company") today announced that on December 2,…

Industrial real estate market is at top of its game, says JLL By Jeff Berman, Group News Editor · December 8, 2016 | Logistics Manager The industrial real estate firm pointed to myriad factors for better than good market conditions in 2016, which it said are likely to continue in 2017, including: low interest rates,…

Is CRE Past Market Peak? Dec 13, 2016 | by NREI Staff | NREI Based on NREI’s survey of industry professionals in November, fewer commercial real estate insiders believe that the market is at its peak than was the case in October. Forty four percent of those surveyed indicated they believe the commercial real estate market is…

Outlook good for expanded accredited investor definition after strong approval in House Sailing through the chamber Monday, 391-2, bill includes changes to who is considered a sophisticated investor eligible to participate in private placements Dec 6, 2016 @ 1:07 pm | By Mark Schoeff Jr. | Investment News Congress could act before the end of the year…

Morningstar's Top Picks for Inflation Protection By Christine Benz | 12-07-16 | 05:00 AM | Morning Star Surveying the fund and ETF landscape, from direct hedges like TIPS to indirect inflation-fighting plays such as floating rate loans and commodities. Over the past decade, many investors have learned some hard lessons about attempting to predict the direction of inflation.…

Alternative Investment Equity Raised in November 2016 December 13, 2016 | by Beth Glavosek | Blue Vault Blue Vault has compiled sales data on nontraded alternative investments for the month of November. Sales for all categories of alternative investments came in at $621.8 million, and fundraising year to date is $6.27 billion*. In November, nontraded…

Nontraded BDCs Post Annualized Return of 14.7% December 9, 2016 | Blue Vault Nontraded BDCs this year have produced a median annualized return of 14.7%. Through the end of September 2016, BDCs have performed exceptionally well despite the slowest capital raise in four years. "Unfortunately, many investors are missing out on these returns because financial…

Apartment Vacancy Rate Stays Low, Surprising Researchers Dec 6, 2016 | Bendix Anderson | NREI Experts warned that hundreds of thousands of new apartments would open in 2016 and drive up the vacancy in the sector. But for most of this year, average vacancy rates stayed low. “The market has proved to be incredibly resilient,” says John…