Growth Equity’s Quiet Resurgence
Growth equity is regaining traction, offering investors access to proven, scaling companies with less reliance on leverage and improving liquidity through secondaries and co-investments.
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Deep dives into private equity, venture capital, credit, and alternative assets with strategies for navigating illiquid markets.
Leasing the skies: Aviation assets
Aviation leasing offers contracted cash flows backed by aircraft and engine assets, but returns depend on maintenance economics, residual values, and lifecycle timing across supply-constrained global aviation markets.
Investing in how sports are built, played and followed
From governance structures to fan economics, Pedro Félix da Costa shares how institutional investors are approaching sports as an emerging asset class.
Alternative Investments: A Primer for Family Offices
A practical guide to private market investing — from PE to real assets — for investors looking to build smarter, more resilient portfolios.
Why Some Investors Always See the Best Deals First
Private market deal flow rarely reaches broad distribution first. Learn how private deals circulate through investor networks, why allocations concentrate, and how sophisticated investors evaluate deal access.
Collectibles as Alternative Investments: How Cards, Watches, Art and Other Luxury Items Became Cultural Stores of Value
Sports cards, trading cards, luxury watches, and art function as cultural stores of value, driven by scarcity, grading standards, liquidity cycles, and investor demand.
Nasdaq Is Building the Scoreboard for Private Capital
Nasdaq recently launched rules-based Private Capital Indexes, leveraging eVestment’s $20T dataset. These NAV-weighted benchmarks provide institutional-grade transparency for private equity, debt, and real assets, formalizing performance tracking infrastructure.
Rare Whisky as an Alternative Asset: The Institutionalization of Spirits
Rare whisky is emerging as a credible alternative asset, driven by scarcity, secondary markets, and institutional interest, offering diversification, long-term appreciation, and a distinct role within sophisticated private investment portfolios.
European Football as an Asset Class: Revenues, Rights, and the Institutionalization of the Game
European football is emerging as a scalable alternative asset, driven by media rights, broadcasting revenues, global brands, and growing interest from private equity and institutional sports investing capital.
When “Small” No Longer Means Small in Investment Management
The SEC proposes redefining small investment advisers by raising AUM thresholds, modernizing regulatory flexibility analysis, and reshaping compliance expectations for RIAs, investment companies, and independent advisory firms.