Even though a March bid was spurned, Nicholas Schorsch and his American Realty Capital have struck a $6.85 billion deal to acquire Cole Real Estate Investments.
Firm has 1,500 affiliated registered reps and advisers; $32B in client assets.
The SEC and Finra are getting tough on broker-dealers, putting intense focus on those recommending and selling alternative investments, including nontraded REITs. <b><i>Don't Miss: <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20140110/FREE/140119991">Our full look at the SEC's 2014 priorities</a></b></i>
Finra turns its ever-watchful eye on frontier funds amid concern that risks are inadequately disclosed to retail investors.
High-profile real estate investor Nick Schorsch moves to the sidelines of the net-lease business with a $2.3 billion bang. Bruce Kelly has the story.
Once the dominant player in nontraded REITS, firm picks new chief for new perspective.
Stan Druckenmiller, one of the top-performing money managers of the past three decades, discovered a hard truth when he started investing in other hedge funds: Most don't treat their clients fairly, he said.
Risks of the strategy can be great the returns even greater.
HedgeChatter to parse online financial chatter to drive investment ideas.
What you need to know to get your Friday morning off to the right start, from InvestmentNews senior correspondent Jeff Benjamin. Today: Bill Gross quacks the whip, look out for the next housing bubble and what's happening to the Euro?
Nicholas Schorsch finally got his prize Wednesday when American Realty Capital Properties Inc. said it had acquired rival Cole Real Estate Investments Inc. in a deal valued at $11.2 billion.
As the year comes to a close, it's evident that independent broker-dealers are racking up a bonanza from the sale of alternative investment products, namely nontraded REITs. Question is, have firms learned from past mistakes?
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Private equity giant KKR finds expanding beyond the HNW crowd is not so easy and shuts two retail-focused funds. Plus: Gold jumps on Yellen preview, fund manager changes lead to Morningstar updates, Barclays cuts 12,000 jobs, and another day, another Obamacare delay.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Dr. Doom gets even doomier, using derivatives even when they hurt society, more sluggish economic growth, cashing in on video surveillance, and the pros and cons of free airport Wi-Fi.
The fees with Blackstone Group's nontraded fund of hedge funds make 2 and 20 not so bad. Are the returns strong enough to justify the stiff cost structure?
Today's Breakfast with Benjamin features BlackRock's settlement with the N.Y. attorney general. Plus: Stock futures looking up, activist hedge funds rock, a look at 4Q earnings, the myth of cybersecurity, retirement mistakes to avoid and the upside of office relationships.
Fund comes with no sales load but 12(b)-1 fee, performance fee and expense ratio.
The BlackRock Global Long/Short Equity Fund is a computer nerd's dream and, with its ability to zig when the rest of the market zags, a potentially valuable addition to a portfolio.
Real estate investor is joining forces with Chesapeake Energy's former CEO to raise up to $2B.
The $1.7 billion American Realty Capital Healthcare Trust Inc., headed by REIT mogul Nicholas Schorsch, will list its common stock on a national stock exchange in one of the first of what one analyst expects to be up to $20 billion of liquidity events of nontraded REITs over the next two years.
