Blackstone

Eight years ago, Stephen Schwarzman decided to go all in on artificial intelligence — and never looked back.
The president and COO of the private equity titan works with labor economist Teresa Ghilarducci to design a U.S. national savings program.
Dispersion among individual managers was high in 2015, creating clear winners and losers — and making manager selection that much more important for funds-of-funds firms.
Auto lending is a much smaller market than mortgages, but it mirrors many of their problems, particularly in subprime. Beware a recession.
High valuations are slowing the deal pace, but firms have plenty of dry powder to put to work.
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