The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

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. What sets Blackstone apart from competitors is its investing style.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 23, 2024

It ranges from asset owners of various different descriptions who require customized benchmarks for their portfolios, and, in turn, those could be very different, depending on the client type, whether it's an insurance company or a pension fund or an endowment.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

Investment banks were not really a known concept in the area where I grew up. So what I mean by that is, first, understand the duration of your funding source. Pension funds have quite long-dated capital. So first, understand the duration of that funding source. That’s what I mean by liabilities.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

DAMODARAN: Or it could be some unique characteristic, pension funds pay no taxes. RITHOLTZ: So have we now gotten to the point where this sort of silliness is over, or are the venture capitalists and investment banks that bring these companies public, are they still playing that game? RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Sure.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2025

Last month, for example, one of our large asset manager clients launched a new ETF linked to an MSCI climate index with a record-breaking ceded investment of $2.4 billion from one of our large pension fund clients. We also completed large index deals with two of the world's top investment banks, which Baer will discuss shortly.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I can’t begin to tell you what it’s like to sit in a room with the Jeremy’s, Professor Jeremy Siegel and I keep calling him Professor Jeremy Schwartz, but he’s just Jeremy Schwartz, chief investment officer of the $75 billion ETF and mutual fund company, WisdomTree. I am just a fan of both of these guys.

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