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Blackstone Becomes First $1tr Private Equity Manager

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On Thursday, Blackstone became the first in the private equity industry to hit that level, boasting in its latest quarterly earnings report that it managed just over $1 trillion in assets as of the end of June. For firms like Blackstone, attaining that size cements their position as a major player in mainstream finance.

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MicroStrategy (MSTR) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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As an operating business, we are able to use cash flows, as well as proceeds from equity and debt financing, to accumulate bitcoin, which serves as our primary treasury reserve asset. These capital market levers allow us to deploy intelligent leverage to increase our Bitcoin holdings in a manner which we believe has created shareholder value.

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Blue Owl Capital (OWL) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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We reported another strong quarter of results for Blue Owl this morning with 12 straight quarters in consecutive management fee and FRE growth since we've been a public company. In direct lending, for instance, we provide financing solutions to sponsors for their portfolio companies. Thank you very much, Ann.

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Main Street Capital (MAIN) Q4 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

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I'll also provide updates on our asset management activities, our recent dividend declarations, our expectations for dividends going forward, our recent investment activities and current investment pipeline, and several other noteworthy updates.

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Main Street Capital (MAIN) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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We're also providing updates on our asset management activities, our recent dividend declarations, our expectations for dividends going forward, our recent investment activities and current investment pipeline, and several other noteworthy updates. As of today, I would characterize our lower middle market investment pipeline as above average.

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MicroStrategy (MSTR) Q4 2023 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

As an operating business, we're able to use cash flows, as well as proceeds, from equity and debt financings to accumulate Bitcoin, which serve as our primary treasury reserve asset. As an operating company, we can make use of intelligent leverage. And three, debt financing. One, cash flow from software operations. annually.

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Blackstone (BX) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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We're buying as well as financing several firms that design, build, and service data centers. We recently financed a cloud infrastructure business supporting AI development. Fee-related earnings increased 12% year over year to $1.2 We are also actively investing in other companies in AI-related areas. billion or $0.95

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