Blackstone

Simona Maellare discusses expansion plans, adding more retail-eligible offerings and why fragmented European rules remain the biggest barrier to access.

The alternatives giant has tripled its private wealth assets over five years, according to president and COO Jon Gray.

Blackstone uses a traffic light system to evaluate an asset's potential exposure to AI disruption risk, president Jon Gray told delegates at an HKMA event on Tuesday.

‘I don’t expect a Blackstone stadium any time soon,’ president and COO Jonathan Gray says on the firm's Q3 2025 earnings call.

A novel marketing campaign in Japan underscores the growing recognition that PE’s historic aversion to the spotlight will no longer cut the mustard.

The unit will sit within the firm's $280bn private wealth business and will focus on broadening retirement savers’ access to private markets.

Firms need to offer enough products to individual investors to match supply and demand, says Lionel Assant.

PGIM and Partners Group became the latest firms this week to disclose partnerships amid a trend of traditional asset managers and private markets specialists partnering to tap more non-institutional capital.

The £108bn pension pool expanded its private markets portfolio during the financial year ending 31 March, with co-investment remaining a key area of focus, according to its latest annual report.

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Asset managers’ partnerships with prominent sports figures are moving beyond a purely branding exercise.

As deploying capital gets harder, lenders and lawyers are turning to hybrid structures that blend sub-line mechanics with parallel vehicles and squeezing more leverage out of uncalled commitments.

The US asset manager has hired Mark Wang, former global chief investment officer of HSBC Life, amid a push by GPs to raise more capital from the insurance segment, PEI has learned.

Inflows during the period were disproportionately buoyed by the $49bn raised for MGX Fund I in June.

Political vagaries are throwing a spanner in the works for PE defence strategies; the €1.6 billion European behemoth that wants to co-invest with GPs; General Atlantic's new love.