Blackstone Private Wealth - Product Specialist, Associate (Credit)

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.

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 Credit, Private Equity, Secondaries, Real Estate, Infrastructure, Tactical Opportunities and Hedge Fund Solutions to structure multi-asset class and multi-asset solutions to fit into clients’ asset allocation and portfolio construction objectives. Blackstone manages $290 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.
 

Product Specialists in Private Wealth play an integral role in providing investment detail to client stakeholders.  They cover the entire product lifecycle, from fundraising through investment and return-of-capital.  They provide domain knowledge and expertise on investments, performance, market dynamics, and competitors.  Product Specialists have key internal and external stakeholders, including BX investment teams, Private Wealth sales professionals, various due diligence teams, financial advisors, and end-clients.
 

The Product Specialist will focus on Blackstone’s Credit strategies and products. This includes direct coverage of relevant strategies and providing strategic support to Private Wealth stakeholders executing sales initiatives across global channels. The role may provide opportunities to engage with clients and serve as a representative of Blackstone’s investment businesses to Wealth investors.
 

Primary job responsibilities will include:

·         Assist in answering a broad range of client and sales team inquiries about Blackstone’s products, market views, etc.

·         Analyze the competitive landscape through reviewing peers’ filing documents, presentations, etc., and distill key qualitative and quantitative takeaways.

·         Competence for client-facing work through Blackstone’s Legal & Compliance infrastructure.

·         Work across other Private Wealth business functions in supporting product initiatives such as Marketing, Sales, Investor Services, Finance, etc.

·         Enhance capital markets acumen to help contextualize Blackstone’s offerings in a diversified investment portfolio.

·         Help identify areas of improvement across the team’s current processes to increase efficiency of information sharing, communication with sales, global coordination, etc.
 

Qualifications:

·         3+ years of experience within Investment Banking, Investment Sales, or Asset Management.

·         Series 7 and 63 or capability to obtain within a year of e