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 Jonathan Bean has built a career around alternative asset management** and **institutional investing**, including co-founding platforms that provide capital to major insurers and early event-driven strategies. For more on his background and family enterprises, see https://jsbean.com and his professional profile. Alternative Investments: Exploring Paths to Diversification and Potential Long-Term Wealth Building The investment world has expanded far beyond traditional stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. **Alternative investments**—encompassing private credit, hedge fund strategies, event-driven approaches, insurance-linked securities, and more—have become essential tools for many sophisticated investors seeking greater diversification and exposure to non-correlated returns. Institutions like endowments, pension funds, and large insurers often allocate significant portions (frequently 15–30% or higher) to alternatives. The rationale? These strategies can tap into unique market ineffici...

  There's a quiet trend among the highest-performing executives in Las Vegas that doesn't show up in business publications or networking conversations. It's not a new productivity system, a morning routine, or a leadership philosophy. It's something far more fundamental: they've completely changed how they approach their health. While most executives in this city rely on the same fragmented, reactive healthcare everyone else uses, a growing number have shifted to concierge longevity medicine—and the performance gap it creates is significant. Las Vegas Doesn't Play By Normal Rules This city demands more than most. The economy runs 24/7. Deals happen over late dinners. Relationships get built in environments that aren't exactly optimized for health. Travel is constant. The pressure to perform never fully releases because there's always a competitor ready to move if you slow down. The executives who built Las Vegas into what it is today—and those scalin...

  Walk into any high-level meeting in Las Vegas and you'll notice something different about the executives who consistently outperform. They're sharper. More energized. Calmer under pressure. It's not luck or genetics. Increasingly, it's longevity medicine. Las Vegas has always attracted ambitious people who play to win. Now the city's top executives are applying that competitive mindset to something more fundamental than market share or deal flow. They're optimizing their own biology, and it's becoming the quiet status symbol among those who understand what actually drives sustained success. Las Vegas Demands More From Its Leaders Running a business in Las Vegas isn't like running one anywhere else. The gaming industry operates around the clock. Hospitality never sleeps. Real estate moves fast. Entertainment demands constant innovation. Executives here face a pace and intensity that burns out leaders in other markets. The desert environment adds phy...

  You've spent two decades investing in everything except yourself. The career got your best hours. The family got your weekends. The mortgage got your financial margin. The obligations got whatever remained. Every decision filtered through the same question: what do others need from me? Now you're somewhere past 40, and the account you've been withdrawing from—your own health, energy, and wellbeing—is overdrawn . The body is breaking down. The mind is foggy. The motivation that once felt automatic has disappeared. You've been so busy providing for everyone else that you forgot to maintain the person doing the providing.   This isn't selfishness catching up with you. It's self-neglect. And it's hitting men over 40 with brutal consistency. The Provider Trap and Men's Health Men are conditioned to measure their worth through what they provide. Financial security. Stability. Problem-solving. Strength others can lean on. This conditioning works well en...

  Everyone has a credit score. Most people know roughly where theirs stands. But there's another score influencing your life that you've probably never checked— your online reputation score . This isn't a formal number generated by any agency. It's the impression created in the mind of every person who types your name into Google and scans what appears. Employers, romantic interests, potential friends, business contacts, landlords—they're all assigning you a mental score based on your search results. And most people have no idea what score they're receiving. Your Career Is Being Shaped by Searches You Don't See The employment statistics paint a clear picture. Research consistently shows that 70% of employers conduct online searches during hiring. More than half have eliminated candidates based on what they discovered. The troubling part: almost none of them tell candidates this happened. You experience the outcome—the job that went to someone else, the ...

  Nobody wants to admit it, but the health of leadership directly determines organizational outcomes. We talk endlessly about strategy, market positioning, and talent management while ignoring the fact that every critical decision runs through a human body that may or may not be functioning well. I've become fascinated by this disconnect. Companies invest millions in technology, consultants, and infrastructure optimization. Meanwhile, the person making billion-dollar decisions might be operating on four hours of sleep, tanked hormones, and chronic inflammation that's quietly degrading their cognitive function. The Data Is Starting to Come In Researchers are finally quantifying what many suspected. A study tracking Fortune 500 companies found measurable stock performance impacts when CEOs disclosed health issues. But that's just the dramatic, visible stuff. The real story is subtler. It's the acquisition that got approved because an exhausted executive couldn't...