The 3rd Annual IMN Single Family Rental (SFR) Investment Forum was held at the Loews Hotel in Miami Beach last week. Over 1,000 SFR professionals attended the forum, including buyers, investors, lenders and service providers. The number and range of attendees at this year’s conference demonstrated significant enthusiasm for a growing and vibrant SFR industry.
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Three Top Considerations After Omnicare
In Omnicare, Inc. v. Laborers District Council Construction Industry Pension Fund, 575 U. S. ____ (2015), the Supreme Court clarified issuer liability under §11 of the Securities Act. Section 11 provides that issuers are liable for registration statements that contain “an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required . . . to make the statements therein not misleading.” While the Court’s opinion applies in the context of publicly registered offerings, there are some important take-home messages for private placements too. Click through for three top considerations for issuers in light of Omnicare.
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Crowdfunding: The Next Commercial Real Estate Frontier?
In a world where we buy groceries, book travel, and even date online, it should come as no surprise that online investment is becoming increasingly prevalent. The rapid shift towards an internet-centric world has made crowdfunding the next “big thing” when it comes to raising capital and finding investment opportunities.
What is Crowdfunding?
In the most basic sense, crowdfunding is a means of raising capital by seeking small amounts of money from a large number of individuals. There are hundreds of websites that act as intermediaries between the investors and the businesses and/or individuals, and provide a platform for the exchange of information and funds to happen in a systematic (and hopefully more legitimate) way.
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Mrs. Yellen, What in the World Are You Doing?
Is the Federal Reserve overreaching by broadening the scope of its policies?
If extremism in the defense of liberty is (reportedly) no vice, unremitting, continuous undisciplined chatter for the sake of transparency is no virtue. God knows transparency has become the sine qua non of public ethics these days. To be accused of not being transparent is pretty much the same thing as being accused of being an anti-Semite (with notable exceptions for certain parts of the world). When it was reported recently that Mrs. Clinton had used a private email address as opposed to an official State Department email, someone suggested that this evidenced a lack of transparency. The democratic establishment shuddered, only matched by the glee over at Fox News.Continue Reading Mrs. Yellen, What in the World Are You Doing?