Tagged: alternative assets

September 24, 2025 @ 12:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

The House Committee on Financial Services has sent a letter to the Chairman of the SEC, Paul Atkins, in support of the Executive Order that mandates the inclusion of alternative assets in 401 (k) plans. In the US, few firms offer pensions or defined benefit plans,… Read More

August 8, 2025 @ 12:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order yesterday that approved alternative assets for individuals holding 401(k) retirement accounts and other defined contribution plans. The decline of defined benefit plans by employers has led to an explosion of 401(k) plans, which are typically offered by employers… Read More

April 23, 2025 @ 10:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TPG (NASDAQ: TPG), a global alternative asset management firm, and Temasek, a global investment company headquartered in Singapore,  announced a definitive agreement to make a “substantial minority investment in Cliffwater LLC, an independent alternative investment adviser and fund manager.” TPG’s investment will be made “through… Read More

April 20, 2025 @ 6:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Crayhill Capital Management LP, a $3 billion alternative asset management firm specializing in asset-based finance, announced the close of Crayhill Principal Strategies Fund III with approximately “$1.31 billion of capital commitments, including $162 million of committed co-investment capacity, exceeding its $1 billion target.” The flagship… Read More

April 2, 2025 @ 11:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Allfunds (AMS: ALLFG), the WealthTech partner for the wealth and asset management industries with more than €1.5 trillion assets under administration across Mutual Funds, Alternative Assets and ETPs, announces the launch of Nextportfolio 4, the latest version of its flagship portfolio management tool, “strengthening Allfunds’… Read More

December 22, 2024 @ 12:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Independent Advisor Solutions Inc. —a wholly owned subsidiary of Wellington-Altus Financial Inc. —is pleased to announce a retail partnership with Apollo (NYSE: APO), a provider of alternative assets and retirement solutions. This latest collab aims to reinforce Independent Advisor Solutions’ dedication to forming deep relationships… Read More

November 9, 2024 @ 5:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Centralis Group, a global alternative asset and corporate services provider, today announced its acquisition of Admina Fund Services. Centralis explained that it partners with alternative investment firms and corporate organizations offering administrative, global expansion and governance solutions catered to clients’ unique requirements. Based in Luxembourg,… Read More

July 8, 2024 @ 10:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Join Crowdfund Insider and several experts to review the evolving world of alternative assets and investment crowdfunding. While JOBS Act crowdfunding exemptions were crafted to support early stage, private firms, innovators in the securities crowdfunding sector have leveraged these new securities exemptions to provide a… Read More

November 15, 2023 @ 5:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OKX, a cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 technology company, has collaborated with regulated digital asset custody service provider Komainu and CoinShares (Nasdaq Stockholm: CS), a European alternative asset manager specializing in digital assets, to empower CoinShares “to conduct 24/7 trading through the OKX platform while assets… Read More

July 19, 2023 @ 10:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alto, a self-directed IRA custodian and platform that enables individuals to invest in alternative assets using their retirement funds, announced its new partnership with crypto exchange Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN). All Coinbase One members that open an Alto CryptoIRA account “will enjoy a 1% match (up to $100)… Read More

July 2, 2023 @ 2:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alto, a self-directed IRA platform that enables individuals to invest in alternative assets using their retirement funds, announced the appointment of Scott Harrigan as CEO of Alto Securities and Oliver Plattner as Chief Product and Technology Officer. Before joining Alto, Harrigan was previously “the CEO… Read More

May 22, 2023 @ 11:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zodia Custody, an institution-first digital asset custodian by Standard Chartered in association with Northern Trust, and LMAX Digital, the regulated institutional crypto currency exchange operated by LMAX Group, announce a collaboration to deliver institutional-grade trading infrastructure and custody services for the European leading Alternative Asset… Read More

May 19, 2023 @ 3:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Public, an investing platform that allows members to invest in stocks, treasuries, ETFs, crypto, and alternative assets, announced the rollout of Alpha, a project to enhance your investing experience with artificial intelligence powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4. Alpha reportedly “reduces the time retail investors spend researching… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alto, a self-directed IRA platform that enables individuals to invest in alternative assets using their retirement funds, announced “a breakthrough solution that makes it easy for issuers to raise capital by tapping into the more than $10T held in IRAs.” The Alto platform “simplifies raising… Read More

April 17, 2023 @ 10:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Templum, Inc., a provider of Cloud-based capital market infrastructure for alternative assets and private securities, announced today its partnership with Sydecar, a “frictionless” deal execution platform that provides venture investors, syndicates, and funding platforms with the foundational services needed to execute deals. The explosion of… Read More

April 15, 2023 @ 11:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CAIS, the alternative investment platform for independent financial advisors, continues to see an increase in demand for customized white label funds among independent broker-dealers (IBDs) and registered investment advisors (RIAs) “seeking alternative asset allocations on behalf of their clients.” CAIS’ white label fund solutions–Custom Funds–”allows… Read More

February 26, 2023 @ 4:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Eric Satz, CEO of IRA platform Alto, in order to discuss why alternative assets are the new bonds when it comes to portfolio diversification. As the head of a self-directed IRA that enables individuals to diversify their portfolios using retirement… Read More

January 4, 2023 @ 10:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Yieldstreet notes that in this challenging market environment, where stocks and bonds have been largely underperforming, investors “may be looking to allocate their capital to assets with little correlation to public markets.” Yieldstreet points out that one of the most, if not the most, uncorrelated… Read More

January 4, 2023 @ 3:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AltoIRA notes that December is a “hectic” time of year. Between buying the right gifts, making holiday party appearances, and visiting with family, you’d be forgiven if your “top concern” isn’t maximizing your IRA contributions. According to AltoIRA, end-of-year IRA contributions are “something you should… Read More

June 24, 2022 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A portfolio with an “optimal” risk-return ratio by the end of 2022 “could yield 13.7%,” according to an update from Robo.cash. Its largest share is allocated towards P2P lending, the team at Robocash wrote in a blog post. In their latest study, Robocash investment platform… Read More