Last week we:

1. Attended a public hearing for The Sunset Amphitheatre, a 20,000 seat live music venue that just broke ground in McKinney, Texas. We attended because it's an exciting development for our city, but also because they're offering an interesting investment wherein people can buy permanent tickets to firepit suites. They can sell tickets they don't personally use in order to earn a profit.

2. We attended an event hosted by Owners in Honor, a nonprofit that provides a supportive community to military veterans interested in becoming business owners via the "Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition" model. The idea with ETA is to mitigate business startup risk by buying an existing business.

Chihiro Kurokawa and Pedro De Leon, Jr. are your hosts for the Beyond Stocks show. Our goal is to provide the premier podcast and community for accredited investors interested in growing their wealth through investments other than stocks and bonds.

Pedro and Chihiro discuss a recent report from JP Morgan (linked below) and focus on two themes in particular.

1. The persistent US housing shortage will create investment opportunities. While we agree about the long term, there's still potential for significant short term capital displacement particularly in office and multifamily as a correction may be ongoing. Also, building affordable housing is always a challenge due to NIMBYism.

2. Investing in businesses may be on the rebound based on the inflection point in yearly IPO volume, as well as improving valuation multiples. Of course, at Beyond Stocks we're fans of investing in businesses via private offerings as opposed to the stock market.

JP Morgan blog post: https://www.jpmorgan.com/insights/investing/investment-strategy/alternative-investments-in-2025-our-top-five-themes-to-watch

Chihiro Kurokawa and Pedro De Leon Jr. are regular dudes who love investing in and learning about alternative assets. We bring you authentic discussions and industry experts to help people understand that wealth can be built outside of investing in stocks and bonds.

Ron Glasgow is a Certified Financial Planner and founder of GlasgowInvestments.com. We brought him on the show to discuss how many of his clients diversify into alternative investments via Delaware Statutory Trusts.

DSTs are vehicles for passive investment that provide many of the tax benefits of direct, active real estate investing, without having to be a landlord! For example, DSTs can accommodate 1031 exchanges, a powerful tax deferral strategy.

Learn more at www.GlasgowInvestments.com.

Pedro De Leon, Jr. and Chihiro Kurokawa have seen the data! We know that alternative investments are an important wealth-building opportunity in the years to come. We want to share our thoughts and bring on experts to let you know that Alt Investments are the way to go!