Blackstone Private Wealth - Investment Strategy, Associate

Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our $1.1 trillion in assets under management include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, opportunistic, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, X, and Instagram.

Job Description

Blackstone is seeking an associate to join Blackstone’s Investment Strategy team in the Blackstone Private Wealth group. The Investment Strategy team develops thought leadership related to global macroeconomic and financial market trends in order to guide asset allocation and inform investment and strategic decisions. The team sits within Private Wealth, providing insights to both financial advisors, as well as institutional clients across the Firm. Investment Strategy leverages not only public market data, but proprietary data from our 250+ portfolio companies to help formulate macro and market views of the Firm.

The individual will support the Investment Strategy team’s research and content development for both internal and external audiences. The individual will also assist with ad-hoc research projects in response to specific requests from Private Wealth and across the Firm’s business units. As such, the individual will work with a variety of professionals across job functions, including investment and asset management teams, sales, investor and client services, and operational groups including legal, marketing, and others.

A successful candidate will be knowledgeable in macroeconomic and financial market concepts, with a proven history of quantitative research and analysis but also strong qualitative skills to describe market conditions and relay the team’s views to internal stakeholders. The individual will be comfortable analyzing large data sets, creating cogent summaries, and translating these into effective visual presentations. 

Business Unit Overview:

Blackstone Private Wealth was established to answer the growing demand for Blackstone products from high-net worth investors. Partnering with many of the world’s largest private banks and wealth management firms as well as family offices, Blackstone’s Private Wealth team packages and delivers the full breadth of Blackstone’s alternative product capabilities to these firms and their clients and provides ongoing product and advisor support, as well as education and training around alternative investments.

We leverage the global scale platforms across Private Equity, Secondaries, Real Estate, Credit, Tactical Opportunities and Hedge Fund Solutions to structure single asset class and multi-asset solutions to fit into clients’ asset allocation and portfolio construction objectives. Blackstone manages $271 billion of capital from Private Wealth clients.

Blackstone Private Wealth is globally positioned, with offices in New York, London, Zurich, Paris, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo and works with many of the world’s largest wealth management institutions, independent wealth managers and family offices.
 

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Support the Investment Strategy team’s thought leadership and research efforts by collecting, researching, and analyzing global macroeconomic and market data.
• Identify appropriate data sets quickly and efficiently, and organize them in a clear, concise manner.
• Transform and analyze large data sets to create exhibits ensuring accuracy of data and methodology.
• Assist with the creation of internal and external publications and research projects.
• Create, maintain and update presentation materials for internal and external audiences.
• Support the management of multiple projects, keeping the team informed of their status.
• Support internal approval processes and coordinate closely with colleagues across various business units.
• Identify opportunities to improve and streamline existing workflows.
• Read, research and r