ELTIF Explained: How Europe Opened Private Markets to Retail Money (And Why the US Hasn't)
The European Long-Term Investment Fund market crossed 300 registered vehicles in mid-2026, with total assets under management estimated at €34 billion at year-end 2025, a gain of nearly 55 percent in
September 7, 2026
PeerRealty Review 2026: What Happened to This Real Estate Crowdfunding Platform?
TL;DR: PeerRealty, a Chicago-based real estate crowdfunding platform that launched in 2014 and accepted accredited investors into Regulation D equity deals, stopped posting new investment opportunitie
September 6, 2026
Tyree and D'Angelo Partners Closes Fund IV at $650 Million: What a 10-Week Raise Tells LP Investors
Tyree & D'Angelo Partners closed TDP Fund IV LP at its $650 million hard cap on August 31, 2026, significantly oversubscribed and fully allocated after less than ten weeks in market, at a time whe
September 6, 2026
The $121 Billion Record: What Two Competing Data Sets Reveal About Private Equity Secondaries in 2026
TL;DR: The private equity secondaries market logged $121 billion in transaction volume during the first half of 2026 , the highest H1 on record, according to Evercore's H1 2026 Secondary Market Review
September 6, 2026
CVC Capital Partners Raises $10 Billion for Its Largest-Ever Secondaries Fund
CVC Capital Partners closed its largest-ever secondaries fund on September 3, 2026, raising $10 billion for Secondary Opportunities Fund VI (SOF VI) — nearly doubling the $5.8 billion its predecessor
September 6, 2026
Sports Team Ownership Funds: A Plain-English Guide to the Alternative Asset Class
TL;DR: Professional sports team ownership has become a recognized alternative asset class as every major U.S. league now permits institutional capital: the NFL became the last holdout when NFL owners
September 6, 2026
Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN Plans a $10 Billion AI Venture Fund. Here Is What It Means for You.
TL;DR: Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN, a wholly owned subsidiary of the $1.1 trillion Public Investment Fund (PIF), told Semafor on September 3 that its planned $10 billion global AI venture fund could launch
September 6, 2026
Carbon Removal Investing: What Accredited Investors Need to Know
TL;DR: Frontier, the advance market commitment backed by Stripe, Alphabet, Shopify, Meta, and McKinsey, has pledged to buy $1.8 billion worth of permanent carbon removal by 2040 , and corporate offtak
September 6, 2026
Fintor Review 2026: What Happened to the Fractional Real Estate App
TL;DR: Fintor raised $33.7M and built a fractional real estate app that let investors buy shares of individual rental homes for as little as $5, but its legal entity Fintor Assets, LLC filed a formal
September 6, 2026
The Adverse Selection Problem Hidden in Retail Private Markets
TL;DR: Private markets are opening to retail investors at record speed, and my read is that the products reaching retail shelves first are disproportionately the ones institutional LPs have already pr
September 6, 2026
How an LP Should Read a Continuation Vehicle Fairness Opinion Before Deciding to Roll or Sell
TL;DR: Continuation vehicles generated $65 billion of GP-led secondary volume in the first half of 2026, up 35% year over year, according to Evercore's H1 2026 Secondary Market Review — and every one
September 6, 2026
Flexstone Partners Acquires Glouston Capital: What the $15B Secondaries Roll-Up Means for LPs
TL;DR: On September 2, 2026, Flexstone Partners, a private markets affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers, completed its acquisition of Boston-based private equity secondaries specialist Glouston...
September 5, 2026