Special Situations Investing: How Accredited Investors Access Distressed Deals
Oaktree Capital generated 18-23% gross IRR over 30 years. Elliott Management delivered 14.1% compound annual returns with lower volatility than the S P 500. Roughly $900 billion in US high-yield debt
June 30, 2026
Management Company in Private Equity: The Entity That Runs Your Fund
Management fees (1.74-2% annually) flow to the management company as ordinary income. Carried interest flows through the GP as capital gains taxed at 20% instead of 37%. LPs who skip the management co
June 30, 2026
CrowdStreet 2026: What Happened After the $63M Fraud and Is It Safe Now?
8 million of investor capital in the 2023 Nightingale fraud. CEO Elchonon Schwartz was sentenced to 87 months in prison in May 2025 with $45.8 million in restitution ordered. Only 13% of stolen funds
June 30, 2026
GP Stakes Investing: How Accredited Investors Access PE Manager Equity in 2026
Blue Owl Capital's Dyal unit manages $47.8B across 55+ GP stakes. Deal volume hit 164 transactions in 2025, up 40% year-over-year. Accredited investors can now access this strategy through feeder fund
June 30, 2026
Martin Marietta's $13.5B Lhoist Deal: What It Signals for Industrial PE
5 billion acquisition of Lhoist North America on June 29, 2026. The deal values Lhoist at 15x Adjusted EBITDA including synergies, with $85 million in annual cost savings targeted. The Berghmans famil
June 30, 2026
Securitize (SECZ) NYSE Debut: What the $400M SPAC Listing Means for RWA Tokenization
TL;DR Securitize (SECZ) lists on NYSE July 2, 2026 after merging with Cantor Equity Partners II (CEPT), raising ~$400M, the largest SPAC PIPE for an operating business since 2021. The platform already
June 29, 2026
Real Estate Syndication: How It Works for Accredited Investors in 2026
TL;DR Syndication waterfall mechanics (preferred return, catch-up, and promote splits) determine your actual return more than any projected IRR in a pitch deck. Rule 506(b) and Rule 506(c) offerings a
June 29, 2026
EQT's €5 Billion Scaleup Europe Fund: What Accredited Investors Need to Know
TL;DR EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund is targeting €5 billion to back 30-40 late-stage European tech companies, anchored by a €1 billion European Commission commitment. Denmark's national promotional bank E
June 29, 2026
Wefunder Review 2026: What the 41% IRR Actually Means for Accredited Investors
TL;DR Only 18 of 3,500+ Wefunder-funded companies have produced exits — a 0.5% exit rate. Most of your capital will sit indefinitely in companies that are neither dead nor successful. The headline 41%
June 29, 2026
Farmland Investing in 2026: What the NCREIF Returns Don't Tell Accredited Investors
TL;DR The NCREIF Farmland Index shows 10.29% annualized returns over 33 years, but that number rests on appraisal-based smoothing, excludes retail platform fees, and masks a 5-to-10-year liquidity tra
June 29, 2026
Invesco Bets $2.3 Trillion of Credibility on Tokenized Stablecoin Reserves
TL;DR Invesco ($2.3 trillion AUM) filed with the SEC on June 24, 2026, to launch a tokenized money market fund built to hold GENIUS Act-compliant stablecoin reserves. The fund holds only short-dated U
June 29, 2026
Cov-Lite Loans and the Covenant Erosion Hiding in Your Private Credit Portfolio
TL;DR Over 90% of large-cap leveraged loans are now covenant-lite, yet recovery rates on cov-lite senior secured debt trail covenanted loans by roughly 10 percentage points, running at 65 to 67 cents
June 29, 2026