Alternative investments

Opto Investments is building out a fully integrated tech platform for RIAs to gain access to the multitrillion-dollar private markets.

Until recently, alternative investments have mainly been the province of the high net worth set. In the past few years, though, there has been a concerted effort to change that.

The art market is nearing a critical inflection point, according to a new 2024 survey of global collecting from Art Basel and UBS.

A model of buying buildings with big carbon footprints, investing in green refurbishments and then increasing rents for higher sale prices is attracting attention of some asset managers in real estate.

AI can extract key insights from meeting transcripts, emails and files and other sources across a firm's entire book of business.

As CAIS launched a new advisory firm to simplify alternative investments for financial advisors and their clients, experts at the firm's summit discussed how to get clients more comfortable with the asset class.

Leaders at FINRA, Fidelity and ACA Foreside discussed the steps they take to safely market new investment products like ETFs and cryptocurrencies on social media and other platforms while staying in compliance with advertising regulations.

Baseball cards, sneakers, cars, antiques and stuffed animals could sell for a lot of money, or such collections could be a time suck and an emotional drain.

Despite the notion that an ESG backlash is pushing clients away, private equity products aiming to solve challenging problems through investments are still on the rise.

New alternative investment platform JKBX has attracted thousands of retail investors purchasing the streaming rights to hit songs from Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and more — here's what it might mean for the alts space.