Blackstone Inc.

Founded in 1985 and headquartered in New York, Blackstone is an alternative asset manager serving institutional and individual investors. Its clients include pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, insurers and private-wealth investors.

The firm invests across private equity, real estate, credit and insurance, infrastructure, secondaries, hedge-fund solutions and life sciences. Its distinctive advantage is scale: Blackstone can deploy capital across asset classes while using specialist teams, operating expertise and global networks to support portfolio companies and assets.

Blackstone is especially strong in real estate and private markets. It is the largest manager in the 2026 PERE 100 ranking by five-year private real-estate fundraising, and its investment platform includes major businesses in corporate private equity, infrastructure and credit.