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INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 26, 2013
Troubles mount as Tony Thompson's nontraded REIT halts dividends

TNP Strategic Retail Trust cites loan compliance issues with lenders.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 24, 2013
Mark Tibergien to speak at IN's Best Practices workshops

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 24, 2013
Paulson sticks to guns on gold

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 24, 2013
Five IBDs in $7M settlement over nontraded-REIT sales

Ameriprise and four other IBDs agreed to pay fines and restitution in a deal with Massachusetts securities cop William Galvin. The state's action is the latest in a series of crackdowns on the sale of nontraded REITs.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 19, 2013
Senior manager at SAC Capital indicted for fraud

The probe over alleged insider trading at SAC Capital is inching ever closer to boss Steven A. Cohan. On Friday, Michael Steinberg, a senior executive at the besieged hedge fund, was indicted for fraud.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 19, 2013
Hedge funds benefit insiders only

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 18, 2013
Alternatives get a C grade in first test

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 17, 2013
Nontraded-REIT party is about to commence

A half dozen nontraded REITs are planning 'liquidity events' that could float investors' boats. Bruce Kelly has the details.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 14, 2013
Reg D advertising for public gets OK

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 10, 2013
Bosses of broker-breaker Provident Royalties get prison time

Four top executives of private-placement Ponzi scheme Provident Royalties were sentenced to prison, bringing to a close one of the most sordid tales in the history of alternative investments.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 02, 2013
American Realty Capital in another big deal, this time with GE

Nick Schorsch's American Realty Capital Trust IV strikes $1.45 billion deal with GE Capital for a tasty portfolio of properties. The deal comes hot on the heels of an $807 million purchase for his traded REIT last Friday.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 02, 2013
Will Bitcoin bite the dust?

Bitcoin, the digital currency and investment phenomenon that's up 1,000% this year, plummeted on Wednesday afternoon. Jason Kephart looks at what went wrong.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 01, 2013
Liquidity liquidity everywhere: Schorsch taking REIT brokerage public

It's good times in the nontraded REIT industry. The lastest sign: ARCP boss Nick Schorsch plans to stage yet another 'liquidity' event — this time, taking a REIT brokerage public.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUN 27, 2013
Three REITs set merger to create $3.5B portfolio

Apple REITs follow through on plan floated in June.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUN 27, 2013
B-Ds reining in sales of alternatives

Broker-dealers, feeling the heat from regulators, are changing how they sell alternatives. Bruce Kelly has all the details.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUN 27, 2013
Apple REIT Six OKs merger

Latest nontraded property trust to announce liquidity event

INVESTING EQUITIES JUN 24, 2013
Institutions pessimistic on alt holdings

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUN 24, 2013
Institutions pessimistic about alternatives

But they are more bullish about equities, Natixis survey shows

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUN 21, 2013
American Realty Capital strikes $2.2B deal for a traded REIT

American Realty Capital strikes a $2.2B deal for traded REIT CapLease as ARC CEO Nicholas Schorsch shakes off his recent Cole bid failure. Bruce Kelly has all the details.

INVESTING EQUITIES JUN 20, 2013
The Takeaway: Crashtastic!