Blackstone

Alternative investments are courting private wealth more and more as insitutional money starts to dry up.

The firm's chief strategist, Joseph Zidle, expects the Fed funds rate to rise significantly over a long period of time.

The asset manager’s culture is allegedly one in which women's careers are destined to stall and portfolio-manager ranks are reserved for white men, the lawsuit claims.

Direct lenders, including hedge funds and buyout firms, are prepared to spend billions to lure borrowers away from the $1.2 trillion leveraged loan market.

The only remaining founder of GSO Capital has left to build a family office and find new opportunities to spend the wealth he’s amassed over 35 years.

Opening the door to retail money comes with risks, including the danger of exposing financial neophytes with relatively limited savings to complex investments.

The partnership aims to provide exposure to areas such as middle-market private equity, real estate and infrastructure.

The change will boost the firm’s “ability to reach a dramatically larger audience,” said CEO Stephen Schwarzman.

Part of the risk in any pivot to private equity is whether it would be essentially pawning what has been until recently a diamond of a business model.

A Manhattan real estate transaction is highlighting the shifting fortunes in global finance.

The firm is set to formally begin raising a new fund dedicated to this practice imminently, according to people familiar with the matter.

A younger cadre of managers led by new President Jonathan Gray is moving up.

Expected to raise $1 billion, the listing could encourage new offerings from many of the country’s cash-starved property firms.

The new strategy will focus on long-term ownership of income-producing companies, not unlike Warren Buffett’s buy-and-hold style.

The private equity firm’s credit arm grew significantly with the addition of a new insurance platform and an energy investment management unit.

Steven A. Cohen’s firm says a female executive is required by her employment contract to confidentially arbitrate her dispute with the asset manager.

These three bellwethers offer insight into the forces that will shape the investing landscape in the decade to come.

The $814 billion Beijing-based investment firm has more than a third of its portfolio in alternative assets.

Energy was likely a “headwind,” analysts wrote.