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Why Blackstone is talking about LTAFs

Catch up on the top news in wealth management this week

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Blackstone to grant equity to most employees in future US buyouts

Effort follows a broad-based ownership push by KKR and others

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Members of the Jewish community attend a small counter-protest to the March for Palestine by tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters on 13 April

Blackstone co-CIO Lionel Assant slams Met Police for ‘openly Jewish’ comment: ‘Antisemitism is racism’

'If my Christian or Muslim friends were arrested for wearing a cross or hijab during a demonstration against anti-semitism, I would be equally very angry'

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Blackstone says private equity’s two-year ‘hibernation’ could be ending

Firm’s first-quarter profit rises as dealmaking picks up after a roughly two-year slump

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Hipgnosis Songs Fund owns the catalogue of artists such as Shakira

Hipgnosis Songs Fund agrees to $1.4bn Concord takeover

The offer price is a 32% premium to the company’s closing price on 17 April

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'When you consider that I started my career building models with a pencil and a slide rule, I’d say I’ve come a long way'

AI’s unlikely benefactor: Blackstone’s 77-year-old CEO Steve Schwarzman

The private equity billionaire has donated more than half a billion dollars for AI education and research

Thomas Nides has held a number of high-level positions in banking and politics

Thomas Nides to join Blackstone as vice-chair

Former Morgan Stanley executive, ambassador to Israel to focus on strategic initiatives, client relationships

Blackstone pays $2.4bn for minority stake in NiSource unit

Infrastructure deal also includes capital injection as alternatives giant targets green reindustrialisation

Blackstone boss Stephen Schwarzman continues property push

Blackstone raises $2.6bn for real estate secondaries fund

The private equity giant has announced the close of Strategic Partners Real Estate VIII

Byron Wien had joined Blackstone’s quarterly partners meeting last week

Blackstone executive Byron Wien dies aged 90

The Wall Street prognosticator widely known for his annual Ten Surprises lists worked to the end

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Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman will be looking to reassure investors in a slow market for deals

Blackstone stock slides after earnings miss

Alternatives giant says it's hard to know when transactions will pick back up

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'You don't want to be a second mover in AI', Schwarzman tells conference

Blackstone’s Schwarzman: Private equity can’t put its ‘head in the sand’ on AI

Technology will revolutionise the sector rapidly, according to the veteran investor

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Verdun Perry was raised in 'a pretty rough neighbourhood' in inner-city Philadelphia

Why Blackstone’s Verdun Perry is no longer embarrassed about the borrowed suit he wore to his first job interview

Today he is the global head of Blackstone Strategic Partners, overseeing one of the largest secondary fund managers, with $68bn of assets under management

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Blackstone boss Stephen A. Schwarzman has overseen a period of rapid growth that has pushed the alternatives manager to the top of the pack

Blackstone becomes first private equity firm to reach $1tn

Firm is the first among its peers to reach landmark asset level

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