Insights

Explore how concentration, leverage, liquidity, and risk controls factor into hedge fund due diligence, with Crystal’s framework for evaluating managers.

Explore how consumer private equity is reshaping brands through acquisition, capital, and scale—and what this shift means for advisors and investors in 2026.

Review June 2026 hedge fund performance, strategy dispersion, AI-driven market shifts, and the second-half outlook for financial advisors and allocators.

Understand how private equity is influencing the business of sports, from franchise valuations and league access to media rights, youth sports, and allocator opportunities.

Explore why middle-market companies may be among the biggest beneficiaries of the AI boom, and what this shift could mean for allocators, private markets, and financial advisors.

Institutional, systematic strategies that evaluate every trade for investment merit first — then for tax impact. Built for investors with complex tax exposure.

Three risks are converging inside the traditional portfolio. The answer is measured in return per unit of risk.

A report on the 2026 IPO cohort, the supply shock it implies, and what it means for client portfolios.

Drawdown funds and semi-liquid wrappers are often treated as interchangeable. Q1 2026 showed they're not.

Explore the key differences between drawdown funds and interval funds, including liquidity, investment strategies, and suitability for investors. Learn how each fund type aligns with your clients' financial goals.

An educational overview of all eight Ivy League endowments — Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, UPenn, Brown, Dartmouth, and Cornell.

The endowment model, popularized by Ivy League university endowments, is characterized by investing in traditional US equities and fixed income, and approximately 40%* to multiple alternative investment funds such as private equity and hedge funds.

The J-Curve in private equity investing is a graphical representation of the returns made by private equity funds through time. The shape of private equity fund performance when plotted on a line graph, resembles a capital “J”, hence the name J-Curve.

Review the alternative investment trends, market developments, and portfolio themes that shaped 2025, with insights for financial advisors and investors.

An analysis of the trillion-dollar AI spending spree, the growing funding gap, and how AI economics could reshape global markets and capital flows.

How private credit is reshaping sports, media, and entertainment through asset-backed financing, contractual cash flows, and high-demand intangible revenue streams.