Market Commentary

• Comparing Risk and Opportunity

  Every year in August I organize four lunches for serious investors on successive Fridays in eastern Long Island.

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PRESS RELEASES

• IK Investment Partners to sell Schenck Process to Blackstone

  IK Investment Partners (“IK”), a leading Pan-European private equity firm, is pleased to announce that the IK 2007 Fund has reached an agreement with private equity funds managed by Blackstone (“Blackstone”) to sell Schenck Process (“Schenck”), a global market leader in measuring and process technology.

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BLACKSTONE BLOG

• Bringing Sustainability Back to Core Business Goals

  At Blackstone, we believe that the key to improving sustainability is tying it to the company’s bottom line. This pioneering approach to sustainability has allowed us to deliver outsized savings and improve energy efficiency across our portfolio companies.