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Alternative Investing 101

1.  What Are Alternative Investments?
2.  What is a Fund?
3.  How to Use IRR to Measure Fund Performance
4.  3 Key Benefits of Funds of Funds

Private Equity

1.  Private Equity: Stages and Strategy
2.  Buyout Performance Relative to Public Market Indices
3.  Private Equity vs. Venture Capital

Real Estate

1.  What is Real Estate?
2.  Real Estate Investment Strategies

Venture Capital

1.  How Does Investing in Venture Work?
2.  Venture Capital: Stages and Strategy
3.  Three Common Misconceptions About VC Investing
4.  Where the Money Goes in a Venture Investment

Private Credit

1.  What is Private Credit?
2.  Private Credit: Understanding the Capital Structure
3.  Intro to Mezzanine Capital

Crypto

1.  What is Cryptocurrency?
2.  How to Get Exposure to Crypto With Less Risk

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What is a Fund?

A fund is a pooled investment vehicle, which includes hedge funds, private equity funds (including venture capital, or “VC”), real […]
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What is Cryptocurrency?

Cryptocurrencies are digital currencies on the blockchain, a relatively new computing paradigm that enables decentralized applications. In other words, cryptocurrencies […]
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Private Equity: Stages and Strategy

Private equity (“PE”) refers to some level of ownership of non-publically traded companies or assets (such as real estate, oil/gas/coal/minerals, […]
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Venture Capital: Stages and Strategy

Venture capital is a form of financing that provides risk capital to young, often tech-focused companies. VC focused on a […]
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What Are Alternative Investments?

Alternative investments are the fastest-growing segment of the global financial markets. As McKinsey reports on year-end 2011 AUM for global […]
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What is Real Estate?

Real estate is considered the world’s oldest asset class, and the managed real estate market is now worth over $11.4 […]
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