{"id":48491,"date":"2015-05-27T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=48491"},"modified":"2015-05-27T14:08:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T18:08:04","slug":"co-founder-or-blackstones-hedge-fund-arm-to-step-down-to-start-family-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2015\/co-founder-or-blackstones-hedge-fund-arm-to-step-down-to-start-family-office.html","title":{"rendered":"Co-Founder Of Blackstone&#8217;s Hedge Fund Arm To Step Down To Start A Family Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/family-office-services.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48493\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/family-office-services.jpg\" alt=\"family-office-services\" width=\"290\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.net) \u2013 One of the founders of Blackstone\u2019s alternative credit platform, GSO, is leaving the company to found a family office to invest capital and work alongside management teams. Doug Ostrover will step down as a Senior Managing Director of Blackstone and will become a Senior Adviser to the firm.<\/p>\n<p>Blackstone acquired GSO in 2008 and it now has assets under management of $75 billion, GSO is one of the largest alternative managers globally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoug has been our great friend and colleague for the last 25 years. The success of GSO as the leading alternative credit platform in the market today is in no small measure the result of Doug\u2019s creative thinking and energy. While we will miss him as a colleague, we are delighted that we will still have the benefit of his advice and counsel as a Senior Adviser.\u201d Bennett Goodman and Tripp Smith, the co-heads of GSO, said.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen A. Schwarzman, CEO, Chairman and Co-Founder of Blackstone, added, \u201cOn behalf of all of us at the firm, I want to thank Doug for his many contributions to Blackstone and GSO. He leaves behind a deep bench of finance professionals at GSO, whom he helped mentor and train over the years. I wish him well in the next stage of his career and I am glad that he is keeping a continuing affiliation with the firm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before co-founding GSO in 2005, Ostrover was Chairman of the Leveraged Finance Group of CSFB. Ostrover received a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Stern School of Business of New York University.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nEditor for\u00a0<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>\u00a0is a premier\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">hedge fund database<\/a>\u00a0and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.net<\/a>\u00a0is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) \u2013 One of the founders of Blackstone\u2019s alternative credit platform, GSO, is leaving the company to found a family office to invest capital and work alongside management teams. 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