Tag Archives: alternative investments

Public Pension Funds Chasing Returns…Deja Vu All Over Again?

Remember the 2008 financial crisis? Of course you do as it crushed many individuals along with entities entrusted as fiduciary’s that were managing OPM or, other peoples money!  In the era leading-up to the implosion of the global financial markets, more than a few titans of finance from Wall Street to the streets of small school […]

Blackstone Group, the largest owner of rental homes in the United States! (Infographic)

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Question: What happens to housing when these investor’s are no longer buying? ‘The Blackstone Group LP, the world’s largest private equity firm, became the largest owner of rental homes in the U.S., acquiring 41,000 homes in the past two years. In October, Blackstone offered the first-ever “rental-home-backed” security on Wall Street. The bond is backed […]