Westbrooke’s Yield Plus investment product is capturing the attention of South African investors seeking exposure to international property markets, particularly...
Fund flows - meaning sales of products - in March were “surprisingly resilient.” As a variety of large brokerage firms, including LPL Financial, Charles Schwab & Edward Jones, revamp this year to give financial advisors easier access to sales of alternative investments, investment managers reported that March sales of these products were booming. Money managers such as KKR & Co. Inc. and Blackstone Inc. have long targeted sophisticated institutional investors to sell high risk, high reward investments, from hedge funds to private real estate and credit deals. Over the past...
If financial advisors ask clients the rate of return for their rental real estate investment property, they should expect to hear a number at least 5 percentage points higher than the actual one, according to the founder of The Real Estate Whisperer Financial Planning.That's because of calculations based on "optimistic assumptions, untracked costs and the absence of formal benchmarking" among many owners, said Rich Arzaga, founder of the Monument, Colorado-based firm, in a presentation at this week's Financial Planning Association Retreat in Oak Brook, Illinois."It's where ownership bias meets the...