AMP is a cryptocurrency token on the Flexa blockchain network, whose goal is to facilitate transactions for merchants using digital currency. The idea is to offer an alternative payment system to regular fiat money. While merchants often shy away from using Bitcoin...
A real estate investment trust (REIT) is like an index fund for residential, commercial, and industrial real estate. Managed by professionals, REITs let investors land a dividend-paying inflation hedge without the stress of being a landlord and the obligations that...
On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve announced emergency interest rate cuts amid a worsening coronavirus situation. Shuttered Chinese factories, negative bond yields, and record-setting losses across all major US indexes tell a story of an economy in decline. In response,...
To understand what an alternative investment fund is, one must first understand what constitutes a conventional investment fund. An investment fund is a supply of capital pooled by several investors to purchase a basket of securities, of which each investor retains...
China’s President Xi Jingping caused quite a stir recently, after making a speech embracing blockchain technology and cryptocurrency, calling on his nation to take a leading position in the sector. Subsequently, the country passed a new cryptocurrency law, as it...
We conducted a study asking 2,000 US respondents which asset class they had the most confidence in. We used Google Surveys and targeted males and females between the ages of 18 to 65+ from coast to coast. We asked the following question with several possible...
The report released recently by Prequin shows how institutional investors are increasing their allocations to alternative assets and intend to continue increasing allocations in the future also. Infrastructure, Private Equity and Debt come out as being institutional...
Timberland and its origin as an asset class Timberland is the ownership of forests for the long-term harvesting of wood as an investment. Forests are owned by either public or private entities, public refers to government ownership and private refers to ownership by...