The Managing Partners of Regent Global Funds, an Asset Based Lending  and alternative investment fund, will be speaking at Institutional Investor’s Distressed Real Estate Forum in New York City on November 17th and 18th.   For more information on this event please click here

By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
With economies in complete disarray on a global basis, one of the few bright spots has been the massive correction in oil.  It was widely speculated that oil was in a bubble and that speculation turned into a stark reality with oil dropping below 50% off its July [...]

By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
With the absolute implosion of global financial markets, the investment world is learning that alternative investments need to be private.  I don’t think there has ever been a better illustration of a “pull down” effect within the last 70 years.  It almost seems ridiculous to keep using the [...]

The Entrust Group, the world’s premier provider of account administration services for self-directed retirement plans, will be hosting a live educational asset based lending webinar taught by Dominic Mazzone and Michael Facchini of Regent Global Funds called, “How to Profit from Asset Based Lending Funds in the Credit Crisis and Beyond” on November 13, 2008.
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I recently spoke at the World Alternative Investment Summit in Niagara, Canada, and for such a prestigious, well organized event, I was somewhat surprised by the lack of attendance and the overall mood of the conference.   We all know that times are tough for hedge funds right now, but the performance numbers don’t speak as [...]

Summer is over. The children are getting back to school and the world is getting back to business.  One of the things that caught my eye last week before the long weekend was that Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway, is down around 20%.  If we were talking about anyone else, I wouldn’t be very surprised in [...]

By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
Distressed Debt is starting to make a lot of noise in the alternative investment arena and with everyone jumping on the boat; it might be ready to tip.  I have seen numerous announcements of new distressed debt funds and I think we will keep seeing more down the [...]

By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
Lately, a lot of investors and friends have asked my opinion about the effects of the credit crisis on commercial real estate. You’d have to be living in a cave not to know about residential values falling, but there doesn’t seem to be a general consensus about [...]

By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
Often investors get caught by marketing like anyone else and become absolutely in love with a brand.  Case in point is that they’ll take lower returns from a large, name brand fund over the higher returns of a lesser known, small fund.  To be fair, the large name [...]

By: Dominic Mazzone, Managing Partner, Regent Global Funds
This “Investment Perspective” comes straight from the rooms in banks that are filled with the proverbial bean counters known as underwriters that are making the lives of hard money lenders very easy and very profitable.  It’s clear that the banks are running out of both good decisions and [...]