Jun 01, 2022 / 01:00PM GMT
Patrick Davitt - Autonomous Research LLP - Partner, United States Asset Managers
Good morning. For those of you that don't know me, I'm Patrick Davitt, and I cover the U.S. asset managers here at Autonomous Research. It's a pleasure to welcome a man that probably needs no introduction to most of you, Blackstone Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder, Steve Schwarzman. This is our first asset manager discussion of the conference, so looking forward to having a nice discussion. I'm sure most of you know this, but Blackstone is the largest alternative asset manager in the world with $916 billion in assets under management across real assets, private equity, credit and hedge fund solutions. So Steve, thank you so much for joining us this morning.
Stephen Allen Schwarzman - Blackstone Inc. - Chairman, CEO & Co-Founder
Thanks for the invitation, and thanks for showing up.
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