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Ares Faces Its Biggest Decision Yet: Stick With Private Credit or Become an Alts Supermarket

Private Equity Insights

Yet, like its peers, Ares feels compelled to diversify into other asset classes, such as real estate, infrastructure, and private equity. The attractions of sticking with private credit are obvious. It’s easy enough to understand why Ares Cap would prefer to lend to a big firm than to a small- or middle-market one.

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On Why BlackRock Wants To Be Blackstone Again With a Twist of Crypto

Pension Pulse

He joined BlackRock in 2011 from Nomura Holdings Inc. BlackRock’s over $50 billion of infrastructure client AUM is comprised of infrastructure equity, debt and solutions, and has grown both organically and inorganically since inception in 2011. Not just sovereign wealth funds, US, Canadian and European pension funds too.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

So I worked at a private equity firm, that middle market private equity firm Yale had money with. So I think that argument is very valid in those couple of years, 2009, 2010 probably, maybe 2011, which was a tough year for hedge funds. You still had 2012 to 2017 to finish the bet. SEIDES: Yeah.

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Transcript: Ken Kencel

The Big Picture

You had a lot of the big buyout firms, they were doing the transactions in the ‘80s, in the early ‘90s. But, you know, these large firms were spinning off smaller private equity firms. So lots of folks work there that now run very large alternative asset management firms and credit arms of firms.,

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Blackstone (BX) Q2 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

In fact, virtually all of our drawdown funds we've launched in our history, have been profitable for our investors. Our performance has helped secure retirees' pensions, fund students educations, pay healthcare benefits, and protect and grow the savings of individual investors.

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KKR Forging a New Path For Capitalism?

Pension Pulse

Then she came across an investor presentation from a different universe: KKR, one of the world’s largest private equity firms. By that time, Mr. Stavros had decided to start an organization to promote his model more broadly, hoping to reach the 12 million people who work for companies that private equity firms own.

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This Week in Pensions & Investments: 10-11-2023

Pension Pulse

based private equity firm focused on buyout and growth opportunities. Exited our co-investment in Vistra, a leading provider of trust, fund and corporate services based in Hong Kong with a resilient, scalable, and enterprise-wide technology platform. STAR Capital is a mid-market, U.K.-based Read his full comment here.