First, it can help to reduce risk. There are times when an individual stock will crash or an entire sector will struggle. Your portfolio may incur significant losses if you are overinvested in that sector. At times of economic turmoil, people will typically invest in a safer asset category,...
Yourprivate real estate fundsare buying commercial properties at a discount. Or they're lending money to quality developers and sponsors at extraordinary rates (12% – 13%). That's what Ben Miller, CEO ofFundrisesaid his firm is doing in my one-hour long interview with him. Your venture c...
I prefer to take my risk on the equity side where it is more efficient (and not only from a tax perspective.) Corporate bonds (27% of TBM) carry inherent equity risk. When the company isn't doing well, the bonds become worth less due to the risk of the company going out of busines...
The easiest way I can do so is through a real estate crowdfunding platform likeFundrise, where you can invest as little as $10 per fund. Fundrise eREITs have performed well and with low volatility since the company began in 2012. The company currently manages over $3.3 billion and has over...
but I think the reason is not really as nefarious in one sense as the article suggests. My experience has been that decisions on what to offer and how it should be administered at what costs are trusted to amazingly low level employees who have no idea what they are doing and who can ...