MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 20, 2026--
Insigneo, an international wealth management firm, today announced a strategic partnership with Alius Capital Partners to establish a dedicated real estate vertical on its platform. Building on more than a year of joint due diligence work, the arrangement establishes a proactive approach to sourcing and delivering private property investment opportunities, spanning debt, preferred equity, and equity strategies, to Insigneo’s network of investment professionals and the clients they serve.
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Rather than relying on reactive deal flow, Alius will proactively build and maintain a curated product shelf, structuring preferred terms and minimums, enabled by the collective scale of the Insigneo platform. For a client base with strong ties to Latin America, where private real estate carries consistent and significant demand among high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth investors, the partnership formalizes access at an institutional-grade standard.
“Our investment professionals and their clients have been asking for institutional-quality real estate solutions, and this is our answer,” said Mirko Joldzic, Head of Investment Solutions Group of Insigneo. “Alius brings the sourcing depth and due diligence discipline to make this a real, embedded resource for our network - and that is exactly the kind of capability that sets Insigneo apart.”
Alius Capital Partners was founded to bridge the gap between the institutional real estate market and the private wealth channel. The firm’s co-founders bring a transaction track record exceeding $2 billion across Starwood Capital Group, Palatine Capital Partners, CRC Companies, Aria Development Group, and Boston Properties, and will apply those same underwriting standards to opportunities sourced for the Insigneo platform.
“Our partnership with Insigneo is exactly what we built Alius to do,” said Alexander Feldman, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Alius Capital Partners. “By proactively sourcing and vetting opportunities, we can give Insigneo’s investment professionals and their clients consistent access to risk-adjusted real estate strategies that institutional investors have long relied on. We look forward to expanding this collaboration across Insigneo’s growing global network.”
The announcement reflects the broader momentum in wealth management toward private market alternatives. Insigneo has been systematically expanding its alternatives infrastructure, and the Alius partnership represents a significant addition to that buildout.
About Insigneo
Insigneo is a leading international wealth management firm providing services and technologies that empower investment professionals to successfully serve their clients globally. Insigneo leverages its customized solutions, client-first service, and custodial relationship with BNY Mellon’s Pershing to provide a fully integrated, best-in-class wealth platform. With over $30 billion* supported customer assets, Insigneo empowers more than 300 investment professionals and 68 institutional firms serving over 32,000 clients. For more information, visit www.insigneo.com
(*as of Q1 2026)
About Alius Capital Partners
Alius Capital Partners is a real estate investment platform purpose-built to provide investment professionals and their clients with access to curated, institutional-grade real estate investment opportunities. The firm applies rigorous sourcing, underwriting, and deal-structuring standards across private debt, preferred equity, and equity strategies — with terms and minimums aligned for the private wealth channel. Alius was founded by professionals with a collective track record exceeding $2 billion in transactions at firms including Starwood Capital Group, Palatine Capital Partners, CRC Companies, Aria Development Group, and Boston Properties. For more information, visit www.aliuscp.com
Insigneo & Alius Capital Partners
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Animal welfare activists converged outside of Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers' Capitol office on Monday, chanting “Free the dogs!” and demanding that the governor and attorney general do what they can to shut down a beagle breeding and research facility where many of the protesters clashed with police two days earlier.
An estimated 1,000 activists from around the country came to Ridglan Farms in rural Blue Mounds in an attempt Saturday to free an estimated 2,000 beagles kept there about 25 miles (about 40 kilometers) southwest of the capital, Madison. They were met by police who repelled them with tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray. The Dane County Sheriff's Department said 29 people were arrested.
More than 100 protesters were met outside of the Capitol hallway that leads to the offices of Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul by police officers who handed out constituent contact forms for Wisconsin residents to complete.
Evers and Kaul did not immediately return messages seeking comment. No one from their offices spoke directly to the protesters, some of whom carried pictures of Evers, Kaul and U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin interacting with dogs.
Aidan Kankyoku, a co-leader of the Coalition to Save the Ridglan Dogs that organized the effort, said they were hoping that both Evers and Kaul would break their silence about the dog breeder. Kankyoku said activists also wanted Kaul to execute a search warrant on the facility to investigate allegations of ongoing animal cruelty.
“We just want the dogs out,” he said.
Ridglan has denied mistreating animals but agreed in October to give up its state breeding license as of July 1 as part of a deal to avoid prosecution on animal mistreatment charges. On its website it says “no credible evidence of animal abuse, cruelty, mistreatment or neglect at Ridglan Farms has ever been presented or substantiated.”
Ridglan says it has served as a biomedical research facility “that supports health studies benefitting both humans and animals” for more than 60 years. Nearly all of its current research is aimed at improving veterinary medicine, according to its website.
Ridglan said in a statement Monday that activists “have spread false and highly misleading claims about our research and our deep commitment to animal welfare, fueling dangerous levels of anger and hatred.” Ridglan said staff members have been threatened and followed as they leave the facility.
Ridglan said it hoped that those arrested Saturday are held “fully accountable.”
Many of those who were at the facility on Saturday returned to the Capitol on Monday to decry law enforcement’s reaction. Some of them showed off bruises they said were caused by rubber bullets.
Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett defended the actions of his officers, telling The Associated Press on Monday that their response was “appropriate and decisive” to the risk posed by between 300 and 400 protesters who attempted to break into the facility.
“We were outnumbered,” Barrett said of the 26 officers on scene.
The activists were organized into three groups, with one willing to commit felony breaking and entering, another willing to be arrested for trespassing, while others were there to peacefully protest, the sheriff said.
The sheriff's department released a video that showed a truck driving through Ridglan's gate, which Barrett said put officers and Ridglan staff who were in its path at risk. Barrett said another video released Monday showed an activist taking a baton away from an officer as protesters tried to rush the gate to the facility.
Protesters previously broke into the facility in March and took 30 dogs. Twenty-seven people were arrested on trespassing and other charges.
Democratic U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, in a social media post on Monday, called on state officials to work with Ridglan on a plan for releasing the dogs that won't overwhelm placement groups and prevent the beagles from being euthanized. Pocan last week questioned U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. during a House Appropriations Committee hearing about federal grants going to organizations that use beagles from Ridglan Farms.
Kennedy said he had a hard time believing what Pocan was telling him but that he would look into it.
Animal rights activists protesting in the Wisconsin State Capitol show off wounds they say they suffered when they clashed with police two days earlier outside of a dog breeding and research facility, Monday, April 20, 2026, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)
Animal rights activists converge at the Wisconsin State Capitol to demand that the governor and attorney general do what they can to shut down a beagle breeding and research facility, Monday, April 20, 2026, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)
Animal rights activists attempt to break into Ridglan Farms beagle breeding and research facility in Blue Mounds, Wis., Saturday, April 18, 2026. (Amber Arnold/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)
Rebekah Robinson, the president of Dane4Dogs, center left, speaks at a protest at the Wisconsin State Capitol demanding that the governor and attorney general do what they can to shut down a beagle breeding and research facility, Monday, April 20, 2026, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)
