The Alternatives Investment Center
John Nicholson is a long time financial services expert, his current organization The Alternative Investments Center provides information on crypto currencies, alternatives and more. We provide a wealth of advice on how to grow your retirement savings and financial future in today's new world of finance.
The Alternative Investments Center offers expert guidance and support across multiple categories of alternatives. A niche that is not typically covered or found at the typical local investment office. Crypto currencies have only recently been brought in to the mainstream through The GENIUS Act of 2025.
Author John Nicholson has recently published A Crypto Evolution a nearly 300 page book on the evolution of crypto currencies and current adaption of a standardized U.S. based stable coin in his book A Crypto Evolution.
The Alternative Investments Center is located in the beautiful Ozarks region of Southwestern Missouri. We are the Alternative Investments Center, a consultancy that provides information on quickly evolving alternative investments markets while managing investments in Qualified Rural Opportunity Zone funds. We are located within our own Missouri qualified rural opportunity zone that is primarily focused with the purchase and development of real estate, distressed properties, raw land investments, the repurposing of both residential and commercial properties, land development, property management and development of our current location at 106 N Front St. We have recognized the fast growing demand over the last decade for alternative assets and the potential benefits of investing outside of the typical mainstream Wall St. and associated investment offerings.
Our opportunity zone focus is predominately on smaller rural developments and is significantly different from the majority of the developers in the opportunity zone space who are concentrating on larger commercial urban developments. By leveraging our expertise and experience in the development of smaller rural real estate investments, we aim to be more nimble while creating a platform that simplifies the investment process and further maximizes returns for our clients through careful planning primarily in rural opportunity zones.
Qualified Rural Opportunity Zones & Business Origins
Our business has several key success factors that set us apart from our competitors. Firstly, our emphasis on rural alternative investments within opportunity zone areas and development aligns perfectly with the quickly growing alternatives markets trend. Opportunity zones can offer significant incentives and provide a unique investment landscape that can generate substantial returns through capital gains reductions and upside with other potential incentives based on the area or the project’s scope.
Through focusing on projects within these zones, we position ourselves as a leader in the industry and attract investors who are seeking security through capital gains tax reductions advantages written into the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Secondly, with our industry first starter advantage in the rural electric vehicle charging space it gives us a competitive edge in certain investment lanes that we are focusing on.
We also simultaneously understand the importance of reaching a wider range of investors online and providing simplicity across a complicated space. Our online platform provides investors with access to our growing pool of informative videos, the ability to simplify the concepts through the visual experiences of video and finally explore investment opportunities through videos of our upcoming or finished projects.
Our initial Opportunity Zone project is the potential rehab and buildout of the Phillipsburg General Store & Odd Fellows Meeting Hall. Originally built to house the Odd Fellows Meeting Hall in 1900 it had sadly fallen into disrepair by the late 1980s. A local woman later purchased and improved the property in the 1990s reopening the General Store portion originally located on the first floor. Her interests and time waned in the property after 20+ years. John discovered the property in 2017 recognizing the value of the building located in a opportunity zone than setup the Alternative Investments Center located in the Phillipsburg building to create a rural office for national investment opportunities throughout the United States.
History
We began as The 401K man.com in 2012 offering various lines of insurance and financial services to individuals and small businesses through out Illinois. Our downtown Chicago office was located right across the street from The Chicago Mercantile Exchange Building and then trading floor. We have multiple pages of information and answers to the common questions on crypto currencies, alternative investments and more. Additionally if you have questions on more commonly implemented annuities, life insurance needs, conventional investments, employee benefits and financial planning that are not available here they are on our sister website The401Kman.com .
The Virtual Advisor Group was founded later in 2020 to serve the growing online only requests of insurance quoting and online enrollment nationwide.
The Virtual Advisor Group provides free online consultations, Life insurance quotes, Annuities, financial and retirement planning throughout the United States representing over two dozen A+ rated Fortune 500 insurance and financial institutions with our national online portal. Below is a link to the press release issued at that time.
https://www.prlog.org/12220497-public-vs-private-marketplace-exchange-benefits.html#
John Nicholson has worked in the financial services and insurance industry since 2008. John's financial background began fairly early in the late 1980s. In 1998 after leaving a promising building trades career and property development. He became focused on assisting many clients obtain home improvements and financing for major projects as well as numerous commercial building improvements for clients while simultaneously doing rehabs and flipping of his own projects in the Chicagoland area. Later as a well-recognized T.V. spokesperson for a major remodeling company for a number of years in the early 2000s, he has become a trusted adviser to many, helping friends, relatives, and clients through improving their financial, estate, and retirement plans. The Alternative Investments Center was founded with the vision of asset accumulation and real estate redevelopment through funding smaller scale rural opportunity zone reinvestments. Our origins stem from our experiences in the insurance and financial services industry The Alternative Investment Center offers access to unique tax sheltered niche investment opportunities for those individuals and entrepreneurs who are seeking capital gains reductions and long term growth. Crypto based services are available for developers, investors and consumers who have an interst in developing a project, building a retirement or investment fund or simply getting started with using crypto.
Author John Nicholson
Alternative Investments Center
Explore alternative investments beyond traditional options. Crypto currencies, precious metals, Real estate investment trusts (R.E.I.T.s) Rural Opportunity Zones and more.
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