{"id":48286,"date":"2015-05-18T06:49:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T10:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=48286"},"modified":"2015-05-18T07:46:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T11:46:52","slug":"blackstone-buys-hedge-fund-shares-property-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2015\/blackstone-buys-hedge-fund-shares-property-in-europe.html","title":{"rendered":"Blackstone Buys Hedge Fund Shares, Property in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hero_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48291\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hero_2.jpg\" alt=\"hero_2\" width=\"360\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hero_2.jpg 360w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hero_2-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Hedge fund investor Blackstone Group has bought a minority stake in $13.6 billion multi-strategy hedge fund Magnetar Capital LLC, the WSJ reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis transaction will help us continue to meet the objectives of our most important stakeholders\u2014our investors and our employees\u2014as we enter the next decade of our firm\u2019s evolution,\u201d Magnetar said.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, Blackstone acquired three shopping centers in Portugal and Spain which will be managed by its European retail platform, Multi Corporation. Blackstone acquired these assets through the acquisition of the shares of the CG Malls Europe Fund. Multi is one of Europe\u2019s leading shopping center owners and managers and owns and manages 25 assets in Portugal and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are all high-quality award winning assets originally developed by Multi that we will integrate into our operations in the region. We will use our skills as a leading pan-European operator to further improve their attraction for retailers and local consumers.\u201d Jaap Blokhuis, Chief Executive Officer of Multi, said.<\/p>\n<p>Blackstone also announced that Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone, will present at Bernstein\u2019s 31st Annual Strategic Decisions Conference in New York on Thursday, May 28.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for <a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a> is a premier <a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">hedge fund database<\/a> and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">HedgeCo.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for <a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) &#8211; Hedge fund investor Blackstone Group has bought a minority stake in $13.6 billion multi-strategy hedge fund Magnetar Capital LLC, the WSJ reports. \u201cThis transaction will help us continue to meet the objectives of our most important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16044,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-strategies-2","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48293,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48286\/revisions\/48293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}