A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
The billionaire founder of investment firm Elliott Management was one of several investors who warned financial ministers in 2007 that a crack in the housing market could cause huge problems for the banking industry.
The success story at Citadel has been written by a number of people who have backgrounds from the University of Chicago.
I'm looking forward to partnering with TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners. This transaction is a clear endorsement of J. Crew and the hard work and dedication of all of our associates.
I love picking people. I started Blackstone, and we had no people, and now we have with our portfolio companies about 750,000 people all over the world. Everybody who is at a senior level has ultimately been picked by me.
We think the most important criteria for selecting an investment firm are the manager, team, and track record.
It is the manager and the team that affect performance, not the size of the fund or firm.
When the tide goes out, you get to see who's swimming naked. PIMCO has had its bathing suit on for a long time
STG is a combination of a holding company and a private equity model.
Blockchain Capital has a global investment mandate so it is very possible that we make an investment in India at some point.
Back in 2005 and 2006, I argued as forcefully as I could, in letters to clients of my investment firm, 'Scion Capital', that the mortgage market would melt down in the second half of 2007, causing substantial damage to the economy.
Who is Antonio Weiss? He's the head of global investment banking for the financial giant Lazard.
In 2014, Blackstone was the most profitable money manager in the world. I did not anticipate that.
We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.
When Bill Morgan and I formed Kinder Morgan in February of 1997, it had about $300 million in enterprise value.
What I like about Bain Capital is that we have Republicans, we have Democrats, we have independents; we are a diverse firm in terms of political views. But what we do is we sit down and we try to solve the problems.
The speed and trajectory of BlackRock's ascent have been breathtaking.
We are not only one of the largest investment firms but also one of the best performing.
If I could press a button and have all of Sequoia Capital on the Midas List, I would choose to do that over a honoring a single individual.
I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.
