Inveniam IO

December 1, 2020December 2, 2020

Data Integrity & Price Discovery Inveniam IO

The Person With The Best Data Wins

Today’s WSJ talks about employees’ reluctance to return to the office since Labor Day. From the article: “Attendance is up sharply from an April low of less than 15%, which largely consisted...

Data Drives Almost Everything In Financial Services

Data Is One of The Most Underutilized Aspects of Private Assets Today

Using the Crisis as An Opportunity to Digitally Transform Your Company

Leveraging Existing Assets to Close A Funding Shortfall

Fantastic article discussing how the nation’s largest public pensions is planning to leverage existing assets in a low-yield environment to close a funding shortfall. From Reason Foundation: “CalPERS recently announced the fund...

November 16, 2020November 16, 2020

Data Integrity & Price Discovery Inveniam IO Real Estate/CRE

States and Cities May Look to CRE to Fill Cauldrons

Excellent work by SitusAMC on “6 Frightening Real Estate Market” trends. Excerpts: “States & cities suffering from revenue shortfalls may look to commercial real estate to fill cauldrons. States are anticipating budget...

November 10, 2020November 10, 2020

Blockchain/DLT Data Integrity & Price Discovery Inveniam IO Real Estate/CRE

Price Discovery Will Be the Killer App for Blockchain

The Block provides excellent coverage on JPMorgan’s plans to get into the digital-asset custody game. From Frank Chaparro: “JPMorgan is actively exploring digital asset custody and is looking for help from crypto...

November 3, 2020January 21, 2021

Data Integrity & Price Discovery Inveniam IO Real Estate/CRE

The Data Economy is Upon Us

The WSJ highlights weakness in parts of the U.S. rental market nationally in the wake of Covid. Excerpts: “A large number of renters have been unable to pay some or even all...

October 27, 2020January 21, 2021

Cryptocurrency Inveniam IO

A Global Economy More Resistant to Manipulation

JPM likes bitcoin for the long haul. News of such broke over the weekend following a nearly 15% rise in the price of the world’s number one digital asset in the previous...

October 27, 2020October 27, 2020

Inveniam IO Private Markets Real Estate/CRE

The Public Markets Are Shrinking

Insights from leading custodian State Street on the transformation of private markets. Excerpts: “Private market funds, such as private equity, private credit, real estate & infrastructure, have traditionally been sold to institutional...

October 25, 2020January 21, 2021

Cryptocurrency Data Integrity & Price Discovery Inveniam IO

Not-So-Subtle Changes Are Happening to Money

A few years ago, bitcoin seemed a fringe concept. Now, Visa reports “significant interest” from crypto companies – and the feeling is mutual. PayPal this week announced customers will be able to...

October 22, 2020October 23, 2020

Data Integrity & Price Discovery Inveniam IO

LP’s Private Equity Investments Need Real-Time Pricing

Fascinating article in the NYTimes on how the nation’s biggest public pension fund, CalPERS, is doubling down on private equity – as the chase for higher returns kicks into high gear. Excerpts:...

October 19, 2020October 19, 2020

Blockchain/DLT Data Integrity & Price Discovery Inveniam IO

Blockchain Is the Commutative Medium for Trust

Two stories jumped out at us from last week. One is comments from CFTC chairman Heath Tarbert who noted: “The whole idea of DeFi really is, number one, it’s obviously revolutionary, and...

October 19, 2020October 19, 2020

Data Integrity & Price Discovery Inveniam IO Real Estate/CRE

Follow the Data

Commercial real estate may be reeling in urban city areas. What about upscale ski towns? Booming. The WSJ reports: “This was the busiest summer selling season ever,” says Ben Fisher, a broker...

October 6, 2020October 6, 2020

Data Integrity & Price Discovery Digital Financial Instruments Digital Token Inveniam IO Tokenization

Someday All Stocks Could Become Tokenized

Fascinating article by Yogita Khatri & team at The Block on how SEC Chairman Jay Clayton believes someday all stocks could become tokenized. Highlights: “Jay Clayton, chairman of the U.S. Securities and...

October 5, 2020January 21, 2021

Data Integrity & Price Discovery Inveniam IO Real Estate/CRE

Add Carbon Emissions to the Ever-Growing CRE Data List

When we tell people we collect data for commercial real estate holdings to determine fair-market value, the question becomes: what kinds of data? Answer: all kinds. From the WSJ: “Blackstone Group Inc.,...

September 30, 2020September 30, 2020

Data Integrity & Price Discovery Inveniam IO Real Estate/CRE

Monthly Asset Appraisal Is Vital

The FT with a sobering report on commercial real estate amid Covid. From the article: “Commercial properties hit by the economic effects of coronavirus could have lost as much as 1/4 of...

September 29, 2020September 30, 2020

Inveniam Capital Partners is laying the foundation for the digitization of the Private Markets at the intersection of the Capital Markets, Blockchain, and Big Data. Our work involves notarizing, validating, and indexing the data in an event series on the blockchain for data-rich assets. This allows real time pricing of private, seldom traded assets as well as risk management, and other quantitative driven investment strategies into the private markets.