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Capital Square announced the full-cycle completion of CS1031 2000 West Creek Apartments, DST, following the sale of the underlying property for $115 million, generating a 137% total return to investors over the nearly seven-year holding period. The Regulation D private placement was backed by 2000 West Creek, a 373-unit, Class A multifamily community in Richmond, …
HarbourVest Partners has closed its seventh co-investment program at approximately $4.75 billion in total commitments, exceeding the $4 billion target with support from a global group of new and existing limited partners. HCF VII seeks to provide investors with diversified exposure to direct co-investments across buyout and growth equity strategies alongside leading private markets sponsors. …
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Galaxy Digital has made a strategic investment in Digital Prime Technologies, the institutional digital asset technology firm behind Tokenet, a lending platform developed in partnership with EquiLend. The investment extends an existing relationship: Galaxy participated as a launch client when Tokenet went live in May 2026. Tokenet applies securities lending workflows, risk controls, and lifecycle …
Peachtree Group, an investment management firm, has partnered with Goldman Sachs Custody Solutions to expand its reach of alternative investment offerings to investors. Through Goldman Sachs’ custody solutions platform, RIAs will gain access to Peachtree’s investment products, to provide high-net-worth and affluent clients with“streamlined” access to Peachtree’s real estate and credit products. Additionally, Peachtree’s investment vehicles are accessible through alternative investment platforms, including iCapital, SEI …
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Brookfield Asset Management and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board have agreed to take LXP Industrial Trust private in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $5.2 billion, including net debt and preferred equity. West Palm Beach-based LXP owns one of the largest portfolios of warehouse and logistics facilities in the U.S., comprising approximately 53 million square …
Axos Financial subsidiary Axos Nevada Holding plans to acquire Arc Technologies, a cash management and fintech platform, in a move to expand its artificial intelligence offerings. The acquisition will enable Axos to gain access to enhanced AI capabilities through Arc’s financial infrastructure hub and agentic finance tools, which are designed to automate workflows, provide market insights, and boost operational efficiency. The deal, which is expected to close this month, will be Axos’ fourth acquisition in the last year. In May , Axos acquired Los Angeles-based Jenius Bank’s $2.3 billion in deposits from …
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U.S. wholesale inflation followed the example of consumer price inflation in June with a monthly decline. The Producer Price Index for final demand fell by a seasonally adjusted 0.3% in June after rising 1.1% the previous month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. Analysts had expected the June figure to be in line …
Executive Summary The war in Iran has scrambled traditional views of safety in fixed income, pushing investors out of long‑duration Treasuries and broad investment‑grade benchmarks and into floating‑rate, senior‑secured credit. From February 28 through early July, the Invesco Senior Loan ETF (BKLN) returned just over 3% on a total‑return basis, compared with losses of about …
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Managed account sponsors and turnkey asset management providers (TAMPs) continue to prioritize platform consolidation as they work to deliver more integrated, tax-efficient investment solutions, according to the latest Cerulli Edge—U.S. Managed Accounts Edition. While the unified managed household (UMH) has yet to become the industry standard, Cerulli found that firms increasingly view household-level portfolio management …
Envestnet has expanded its partnership with Vanguard to integrate Vanguard’s Advisor’s Alpha framework into Envestnet’s wealth management platform, pairing it with the firm’s tax-aware portfolio management technology. The collaboration is designed to help advisors deliver more personalized after-tax outcomes for clients, with a particular focus on tax-loss harvesting and tax-efficient retirement strategies, through scalable model …
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Partners Group has held the final close of its fourth direct infrastructure program at more than $15 billion — surpassing the prior vintage by more than 50% — with a diverse investor base spanning public and corporate pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, and banks across North America, Europe, the Middle East, …
Nuveen has struck a strategic partnership with the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) to deploy up to $2 billion into sustainable infrastructure via Nuveen’s Energy Infrastructure Credit (EIC) platform. CalSTRS will act as anchor investor for a sustainable infrastructure sleeve within the Energy & Power Infrastructure Credit Fund II (EPIC II), and is positioned …
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Partners Group has held the final close of its fourth direct infrastructure program at more than $15 billion — surpassing the prior vintage by more than 50% — with a diverse investor base spanning public and corporate pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, and banks across North America, Europe, the Middle East, …
Private equity sponsors are fundamentally changing how they manage portfolio companies during extended holding periods, increasingly abandoning the assumption that an initial investment thesis remains fixed through exit. According to new research from McKinsey & Company titled Unlocking Full Potential: Five Practices Reshaping PE Value Creation, buyouts are experiencing prolonged lifespans. Average hold periods have …
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Figure Technology Solutions is making a bold move to expand its blockchain-based capital markets platform, announcing a $717 million agreement to acquire Kiavi, an AI-powered lending platform serving residential real estate investors. The deal includes a joint venture with Sixth Street to purchase loans off Kiavi’s balance sheet. Kiavi has spent 13 years building a …
Moomoo is expanding its cryptocurrency trading business into Texas while introducing a new feature that allows U.S. users to transfer digital assets directly between external wallets and their platform accounts. The global investment and trading platform said Texas-based investors can now trade 52 cryptocurrencies through Moomoo Crypto with zero commissions and transaction fees as low …
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J.P. Morgan Asset Management launched the JPMorgan Managed Futures Plus ETF on the Nasdaq, offering investors combined exposure to U.S. equities and a managed futures strategy within a single fund structure. The JPMorgan Managed Futures Plus ETF, trading under the ticker JPFP, is designed to provide portfolio diversification through a managed futures allocation alongside exposure …























