The Library — Strategies & Tools, Explained | Main Street Alternatives

Library

The Tools and Strategies, Explained

The Solutions section is about your circumstances. This is about the instruments themselves — what they are, how they work, and where each one fits. Four books, 7 chapters, and a working reference for the strategies institutions and the ultra-wealthy have used for decades.

Book TwoComing Soon

Wealth Management

How a coordinated plan turns assets into durable income, manages risk across a full balance sheet, and keeps investments, taxes, and estate working toward one objective.

This book is on the way — we’ll announce it when the first chapters are ready.

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Book ThreeComing Soon

Business Succession Planning

Transitioning ownership of a privately held business — to family, management, or an outside buyer — while preserving value and protecting what you built.

This book is on the way — we’ll announce it when the first chapters are ready.

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Book FourComing Soon

Alternative Investments

An institutional toolkit made accessible to individual investors: private equity, private credit, real estate, energy, and specialty assets, and the role each can play.

This book is on the way — we’ll announce it when the first chapters are ready.

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Table of Contents

Every chapter in the Library, in reading order. Start anywhere — each chapter stands on its own and points to the ones it depends on.

  1. 1
    Why Your Advisors Need to Talk to Each OtherSoon
  2. 2
    How Your Portfolio Should Be Put TogetherSoon
  3. 3
    Turning Your Savings Into a PaycheckSoon
  4. 4
    The Risks That Can Undo a Good PlanSoon
  5. 5
    Making Sure Your Money Goes Where You WantSoon
  6. 6
    Who Handles What Between Your CPA, Attorney, and AdvisorSoon
  1. 1
    When to Start Planning Your ExitSoon
  2. 2
    What Your Business Is Actually WorthSoon
  3. 3
    Who You Can Sell Your Business ToSoon
  4. 4
    How the Deal Is Structured, and What You KeepSoon
  5. 5
    What to Do With the Money After You SellSoon
  6. 6
    What Happens to the Business If Something Happens to YouSoon
  1. 1
    What Alternative Investments Are, and Who Can Buy ThemSoon
  2. 2
    Owning Private CompaniesSoon
  3. 3
    Lending to Companies Instead of Owning ThemSoon
  4. 4
    Owning Property Through a FundSoon
  5. 5
    Investing in Energy ProductionSoon
  6. 6
    Investing in Early-Stage CompaniesSoon
  7. 7
    Litigation Finance, Royalties, and Other Uncommon AssetsSoon
  8. 8
    What You Are Signing, and What You Are PayingSoon
  9. 9
    How Much to Commit, and When You Get It BackSoon

Not sure which applies to you?

Start from your circumstances instead. Tell us what you are facing, and we will point you to the chapters that fit.