Blackstone Shocks Wall Street with $1.57B Profit Surge
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There's more to the story. Blackstone raised $52 billion in fresh capital during the quarter, with around 20% coming from private wealth channels. That influx helped push management fees up 13% and lifted assets managed for retail investors to $280 billionroughly one-fourth of the firm's $1.2 trillion AUM. Meanwhile, net flows in Blackstone's credit and insurance division led the pack again, continuing a trend that's outpaced other business lines over the past 12 months. While the traditional private equity business saw a 12% rise in net realizations, real estate fell 37% as the sector remains in a slow recovery. Gray noted the property market is improvingbut hasn't yet reached escape velocity.
Still, momentum could be building. Gray flagged a growing deal pipeline now that the brief pause following President Donald Trump's Liberation Day tariffs has passed. Though net realizations in the second quarter were just 63% of what they were four years ago, Blackstone's platform could be positioning for new opportunities across asset classes. For now, its ability to generate sizable earnings from unrealized gainswithout needing a frothy exit marketcould offer a blueprint for navigating higher-rate environments.
This article first appeared on GuruFocus.
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