Jon Gray
We started on this journey 23 years ago with the simple idea that individual investors should have access to the returns and diversification benefits from alternatives.
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Blackstone
Headquarters: New York City
Founded: 1985
Assets Under Management: $1.3 trillion]
Jon Gray
The private markets are enormous.
[TITLE CARD: Jon Gray, President & Chief Operating Officer, Blackstone]
Jon Gray
90% of all the companies in the US with more than $100 million of revenue are private. So you can't access them in the public markets. And so the idea here is just to bring the individual investors right to the same place institutions have been occupying for a long time.
[TITLE CARD: Fernando Rivas, Chief Executive Officer, WF Corporate & Investment Banking]
Fernando Rivas
Everything WF does to support Blackstone ultimately results in a benefit to their retail investors and institutional investors.
Jon Gray
We can give you real estate, private equity, infrastructure and private credit, and we can draw on our amazing capabilities to deploy capital at scale.
Fernando Rivas
WF has supported Blackstone on some of the most consequential and exciting investments that they've made. That includes Safe Harbor, Simply Self Storage, QTS, Chamberlain.
Jon Gray
We acquired QTS, a data center business, for $10 billion in 2021. Then the AI revolution starts to happen, and the company needs enormous amounts of capital because it's building huge data centers all over the US. And WF has been there every step of the way, providing strategic advice, providing invaluable capital. And that's the model we love.
Fernando Rivas
Fundamentally, both companies are about the financial success of their clients. We have the size, the scale, the products to support Blackstone in almost anything they do.
Jon Gray
Ultimately in financial products, it's about delivering for the customers. Because what's our business about? It's making people's retirements better. And when you think about a mission-based firm like ours, yes, very exciting.
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