Retirement Savers Eager To Invest in Real Estate and Other Private Assets—but Here’s What They Should Know
A growing number of Americans want more than stocks and bonds in their retirement plans—they want private equity, real estate,...
archivePrivate Equity
Meltdown of some Yieldstreet real estate funds raises eyebrows from financial advice industry.
Yieldstreet real estate funds turned out to be far riskier than some clients believed them to be, according to CNBC....
How Technology Helps With Investment Management And Providing Transparency
Limited partners are an important source of private equity capital for commercial real estate projects. But while LPs may not...
PE funding for Indian property slumps to $1.7 billion as investors get selective, report shows
Private equity (PE) investments into India’s real estate sector saw a steep 41% year-on-year (YoY) decline in the first half of 2025, totalling $1.7 billion across just 12 deals, according to the latest report by Knight Frank India. The sharp contraction was driven primarily by a significant dip in capital flows into the residential and warehousing segments.PE investments in the residential sector halved to $500 million in H1 2025, while the warehousing segment witnessed a near wipeout, plunging 97% year-on-year to just $50 million. These declines come against a backdrop...
Yale’s Endowment Selling Private Equity Stakes as Trump Targets Ivies
Yale University’s famed endowment has been trying to offload one of the largest portfolios of private equity investments ever in a single sale, a move that reflects the pressures on both Wall Street and higher education under the Trump administration.The Ivy League school has sought buyers for up to $6 billion in stakes in private equity and venture funds, according to three people briefed on the sales process, amid uncertainty about its federal funding and the reality that many of these investments have not delivered the outsize returns that Yale...
Can Family Offices Apply Private Equity Discipline To Art And Collectibles Investments?
Woodbridge, New Jersey USA - February 18, 2014: A pile of vintage baseball cards from the 1970s New ... More York Yankeesgetty In the evolving landscape of wealth management, family offices are increasingly looking to diversify their portfolios by making direct investments into alternative assets where before they were more likely to invest as a limited partner of a fund. For decades ultra-high-net-wortth individuals have been making direct purchases of art and collectibles. Now family offices are increasingly viewing those purchases as an alternative investment to be included in the...
Real Estate Fund Exceeds $2.5 Billion for Affordable Housing
“The capital need is in the trillions, not billions,” Ms. Anadu said.“It’s no secret that there’s a big market opportunity,” said Bennett Goodman, the executive chairman and a co-founder of Hunter Point Capital, an investment firm that backed Vistria in 2022. “What’s hard is being able to put together a scalable platform where you have sufficient capital to be relevant.”Vistria’s fund-raising comes as some investing focused on social issues has fallen out of favor. But the size of the fund — and the broad buy-in from investors at so-called family...