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Alternative Investments
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6 guides. 30 connected topics.
Every topic below links to a substantial, indexable section inside a complete pillar guide.
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Research and explainers.
What Are Alternative Investments?
A practical map of assets beyond traditional listed stocks, bonds and cash.
Aircraft Leasing as an Investment
The lease cash flows, residual value and technical risks behind commercial aircraft ownership.
Litigation Finance Explained
How legal claims are funded, why outcomes can be uncorrelated, and where model risk enters.
Revenue-Based Financing Explained
Capital repaid as a share of revenue, with flexible timing but important unit-economics trade-offs.
Four cases · balanced evidence
Two outcomes that worked. Two that fell short.
Use the real result to pressure-test the guide: chronology, economics, stakeholder outcomes and primary sources are shown inside every file.
Open the complete category →Embassy REIT: why a distribution is not the same thing as rental yield
A data-rich FY2026 case study connecting leasing, occupancy, NOI, debt cost, development capital and the composition of a listed Indian REIT distribution.
Read the case →What workedAircraft leasing at GIFT IFSC: ecosystem growth is not asset-level return
IFSCA's growing leasing ecosystem is a real Indian specialty-finance case. This analysis separates regulatory scale from aircraft cash flow, repossession and residual-value risk.
Read the case →What fell shortThe $236.4 million Klimt: what a record auction hides about art investing
The November 2025 Klimt sale and the wider $59.6 billion art market show why record prices are poor proxies for portfolio return, liquidity and after-fee outcomes.
Read the case →What fell shortYPF litigation: a $16 billion judgment can still become a losing branch on appeal
The Petersen/YPF litigation shows why a court award is not cash: appeal probability, sovereign enforcement, duration and financing structure must be modelled separately.
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