The Alternative Investing Advantage
Get off Wall Street and explore the wide world of alternative investments for your IRA. Take control and give yourself the freedom to choose the assets for your retirement plan, assets like real estate, cryptocurrency, private placements, and much more.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 10
- Latest publication
- Sep 9, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 8, 2026
Latest episodes
Real Estate Debt Funds: How Fix and Flip Lending Actually Works - Episode 227 w/ Brandon Rickman (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Real estate debt funds sit on the other side of every fix and flip, and Brandon Rickman has worked both sides. Brandon and his wife flipped between 500 and 600 houses in metro Atlanta before he co-founded ProLend Capital four years ago. He joins Alternative Investing Advantage host Alex Perny to explain how these loans are underwritten, how draw schedules work, and what an investor should ask before investing in a fund. Key Points: - He switched sides for economics. Brandon says his flips grosse
Agriculture Technology Investing and the Fourth Revolution - Episode 226 w/ Chris Rawley (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Agricultural technology is undergoing what Chris Rawley calls a fourth revolution, and he has spent a decade funding the companies behind it. Chris is the founder and CEO of Harvest Returns, a platform that raises capital for farms and agribusinesses. He joins Alternative Investing Advantage host Alex Perny to explain what precision tools, robotics, and biologics are actually solving, and where an investor can take a position. Key Points: - Agriculture is in its fourth technology revolution. Ste
Manufactured Housing Investing Under California Rent Control Laws (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Manufactured housing gets harder to buy in California, and that is exactly why "Ali" Nasir Ali stays there. Ali is the managing director of Rise360 Ventures, a former commercial appraiser, and the second generation of his family in manufactured housing. He joins the Alternative Investing Advantage podcast with host Alex Perny to explain how rent control, vacancy decontrol, and aging infrastructure are priced into a deal rather than ruling it out. Key Points: - Regulation reduces competition. Ali
Farmland Investing: The Asset Nobody Is Making More Of - Episode 224 w/ Rob Moore (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Farmland investing separates the land from the crop, and Rob Moore says that separation is the whole thesis. Rob is the general manager of AcreTrader, which buys row crop farmland and leases it to working farmers. He joins Alternative Investing Advantage host Alex Perny to explain how the asset class works and why returns come from the ground rather than the harvest. Key Points: - Row crops and permanent crops carry different risks. Tree crops like almonds and citrus take years to develop and ti
Assisted Living Investing: Why Rod Khleif Made the Switch - Episode 223 (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Senior housing investing is drawing capital as demographics tighten the supply of beds. Rod Khleif hosts Lifetime Cashflow Through Real Estate Investing, and his coaching students own more than 305,000 multifamily units. He joins Alternative Investing Advantage host Alex Perny to explain why he has moved part of his focus into assisted living and memory care. Key Points: - Roughly 10,000 people a day turn 80 in this country, and Rod says construction is running at about 4 percent of projected ne
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.