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Here's Why 1 Investment Bank Says Blackstone Just Hit a "Major Milestone"

The Motley Fool

Blackstone's unique investment business Blackstone manages investments for big money managers, including pension funds and institutional investors, and its $1 trillion in AUM makes it one of the largest asset managers in the world. Here's why this news is a big deal. What sets Blackstone apart from competitors is its investing style.

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HOOPP Beefs Up Its ILS Investments in 2022

Pension Pulse

The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) is just one of the numerous pension fund and major ILS investors we track in our directories here. First, read my comment covering HOOPP's 2022 results where the plan remains fully funded despite losing 8.6%

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Transcript: Robyn Grew

The Big Picture

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, another extra special guest, Robin Grew, President of Man Group, $145 billion publicly traded hedge fund in the UK, and soon to be Man Group’s CEO. GREW: So, Man is a — as you said hundred million – 145-billion-dollar hedge fund. Is that right?

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Transcript: David Snyderman, Magnetar Capital

The Big Picture

For me, I sat mostly in their internal, really an internal hedge fund. So we’d have credit, we’d have equities, we’d have hedge fund strategies, but with no silos. I 00:13:02 [Speaker Changed] Have noticed that a lot of firms that describe themselves as hedge funds really aren’t very hedged.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

The Big Picture

And in fact, it wasn’t even luck because I left in ’08 and I started my hedge fund. And if somebody said what would be the worst month in history to start a credit hedge fund, May of ’08 may have been the one or certainly closer. RIEDER: Yeah, it was definitely dumb luck. RIEDER: Yeah. RIEDER: It is.

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Are Pension Funds Fiddling With Another CLO Time Bomb?

Pension Pulse

Laura Benitez and Nishant Kumar of Bloomberg report hedge funds draw pension money to riskiest corner of a $1.3 Laura Benitez and Nishant Kumar of Bloomberg report hedge funds draw pension money to riskiest corner of a $1.3 trillion credit market: A high-stakes trade in the riskiest corner of a $1.3

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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

But he spent most of his career allocating capital to various hedge funds, private equity, venture, etc. And so my summer job at business school, I worked for a hedge fund that Yale had money with. RITHOLTZ: Hedge fund, private equity, and Yale endowment, right? You just stay here for a couple more years.”