The company was founded on 1985 by Peter G. Peterson and Stephen Schwartz Mann.

Business scope: Blackstone Group is the world's leading alternative asset management company and financial consulting service provider. Its asset management business includes private equity funds, real estate investment funds, hedge funds, mezzanine funds, senior bond funds, self-operated hedge funds and closed-end funds. Blackstone Fund also provides various financial consulting services, including merger and acquisition consulting, restructuring and reconstruction consulting and financing services.

Office locations: new york, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles, Paris, London, Mumbai and Hong Kong.

Human resources: Blackstone Group currently has 57 managing directors and about 340 other investors and consultants with different professional backgrounds, engaged in investment banking, leveraged financing, private equity and real estate.

Asset scale: As of May 2007 1, the assets managed by Blackstone Group reached about US$ 88.4 billion, much higher than that of February 3 1 41billion, with an average annual growth rate of 4 1.65438+.

The company's business consists of four parts-enterprise private equity, real estate, tradable alternative asset management and financial consulting.

Alternative asset management is the fastest growing field in the asset management industry, and Blackstone Group is one of the largest independent alternative asset management companies in the world.

Since entering the field of asset management 20 years ago, Blackstone Group has raised about 66,543,804 billion US dollars, mainly distributed in private equity funds, real estate investment funds, mezzanine funds and senior bond funds. As of May 2007, it also managed hedge funds, self-operated hedge funds and closed-end funds with assets of $25.4 billion.

Blackstone Group has become one of the largest private equity fund companies in the world since it entered the business from 65438 to 0987. By May, 2007, the Group had conducted 112 transactions through its private equity fund, with a total investment of $21400 million and a total enterprise value of about 199 million. There are 265,438+04 transactions through its real estate investment fund, with a total investment of $654.38+0.33 billion, and the total value of enterprises exceeds $654.38+0.22 billion.

Corporate private equity fund and two real estate investment funds are the largest funds in their respective fields. As of May, 2007, the cumulative investment scale reached 1 9.6 billion US dollars and 7.2 billion US dollars respectively.

During the 20 years of asset management activities, Blackstone Group has established long-term relationships with many large institutional investors around the world, who invest in different types of investment funds.

For many years, the management of Blackstone Group has paid attention to the best long-term business and investment effect, rather than the influence of short-term income, net income and cash flow, in the process of entering and establishing various businesses and deciding what to invest in its investment funds. As a company about to go public, Blackstone Group will stick to its long-term growth goals.