The Blackstone Group, founded in 1985, is a financial services and alternative asset management company focusing on real estate, private equity, marketable alternative investment strategies, mergers, acquisitions, fund-placement advisory services, and restructurings.
The firm has over 1,300 investment professionals in fifteen offices across Europe, Asia, and the United States, in cities such as San Francisco, Houston, Atlanta, New York, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo.
The Blackstone Group has over $95 billion of assets under management or advisement, including more than $25 billion in private equity funds. The firm utilizes a disciplined, due diligence-based approach to investing, leveraging a breadth of expertise across a number of sectors and taking a long-term view in order to deliver returns while preserving capital.
Blackstone also manages over $47 billion in assets in the credit and marketable alternatives segment, which includes publicly-traded closed-end mutual funds, funds of hedge funds, credit-oriented funds, and collateralized loan obligation vehicles.
The Blackstone real estate segment manages over $23 billion in assets, invested in a highly diversified portfolio of healthcare, retail, hotel, office, and multi-family properties around the globe.
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