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BX BREIT
January 18, 2022
Featured

Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, a fund sold in increments as little as $2,500, has raised more than $50 billion since it started five years ago. The fund, known as BREIT, raised an average of more than $2 billion a month, or close to a 70% share of all the money invested in 2021 in nontraded REITs.

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ETFs
January 17, 2022
Economy

Of the 335 equity ETFs launched in 2021, the average number of holdings was just 156 positions, down from an average of 450 in 2009. This may indicate a shift to less widely-held, concentrated ETFs, compared with more diversified, core ETFs that typically hold a large number of positions.

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Hedge Fund Performance
January 14, 2022
Economy

Hedge funds betting on and against stocks, gained an average of 11.9% in 2021. That compares with the S&P 500’s total return of 28.7% and the Nasdaq Composite’s total return of 22.2%.

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Return to Office
January 13, 2022
Featured

An average of only 28% of the workforce last week returned to the office in the 10 major cities monitored by Kastle Systems. That compares with more than 40% the first week in December.

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Record Inflation
January 12, 2022
Economy

The Labor Department’s consumer-price index rose 7.1% in December from the same month a year earlier, up from 6.8% in November. That would mark the fastest pace since 1982 and the third straight month in which inflation exceeded 6%.

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Treasury to Upstarts
January 11, 2022
Economy

The U.S. is planning to hand out $10 billion to help upstart companies gain access to capital in a bid to rev up business in disadvantaged communities and spur a broader economic recovery from the pandemic. The State Small Business Credit Initiative will direct money to states, territories and tribal governments for programs that provide venture capital or encourage private lenders to issue loans to small firms. The program revives a policy put into place following the 2007-2009 recession, when banks cut back on lending to small firms and is more than six times as large the cost of the earlier program.

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Pension PE
January 10, 2022
Economy

U.S. pension funds’ private-equity investments swelled to an average 8.9% of holdings in 2021 after three years of straight growth. That amounts to roughly $480 billion of state and local pension fund assets tracked by the Federal Reserve, up from about $300 billion in 2018.

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Fed Signals
January 6, 2022
Economy

Federal Reserve officials discussed a faster timetable for raising interest rates, December meeting minutes show, signaling greater discomfort with inflation.

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Automating Workflows
January 5, 2022
Featured

The focus on automating hotel operational processes intensified due to the industry labor crisis. Contactless check-in/check-out and automation of day-to-day room rate setting are two leading examples of technology that will be increasingly adopted and refined in response to the lack of staff to complete processes manually.

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Neumann Apartments
January 4, 2022
Featured

Entities tied to Adam Neumann, who built office co-working giant WeWork, have been quietly acquiring majority stakes in more than 4,000 apartments valued at more than $1 billion in Miami, Atlanta, Nashville, Tenn., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and other U.S. cities. Many of these investments occurred within the past year.

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