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Blackstone, Other Private-Equity Stocks Catch Fire
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That is bigger than those of financial giants Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and BlackRock Inc. KKR’s stock performance has been even stronger over that period, edging out Blackstone’s by a few percentage points. (Blackstone’s performance over the past three years has trounced that of all three rivals.)</p>\n<p>Shares of Carlyle, which historicallylagged behind those of peers, have shot up by nearly 160%. Even Apollo’s stock, which was weighed down by revelations of ties between former Chief Executive Leon Black and Jeffrey Epstein, has more than doubled.</p>\n<p>The S&P 500 has risen by about 83% in that period, according to FactSet.</p>\n<p>Private-equity firms—big owners of assets purchased with significant amounts of debt—are ideally positioned to be outsize beneficiaries of current market dynamics. Low interest rates have made borrowing cheap and led yield-hungry investorsto funnel hundreds of billionsof dollars into the firms’ coffers.</p>\n<p>The tailwinds were on recent display as the firms reported strong second-quarter results, pushing their shares up even further.</p>\n<p>The spring for the group’s outperformance was loaded well before the pandemic began, when each firm opted in quick succession to abandon its partnership structure and become a C-corporation on the heels of the 2017 corporate tax cuts. The partnership structure had kept their billionaire founders in control but meant their stocks couldn’t be included in indexes, and shareholders had to endure extra tax requirements to own them.</p>\n<p>The firms’ shares have been added to several indexes, and the S&P 500 could be next.</p>\n<p>“By being publicly traded partnerships, we created stocks that were difficult to own,” said Blackstone President Jonathan Gray. Becoming corporations meant “creating liquidity and a broader universe to buy these stocks,” he said.</p>\n<p>The firms also ditched “economic net income,” a profit metric they had created for their public-market debuts that ended up being volatile and difficult to understand. They began to emphasize figures that matter more to public investors, including the amount of earnings that can be returned in the form of dividends and profit tied to management fees, which are more predictable than performance-related income.</p>\n<p>KKR earlier this year said it was tying employee compensation more closely to performance fees, enabling more of the management-fee stream to flow to public investors.</p>\n<p>“What the markets want are sticky, consistent fee streams that are recurring in nature with high re-up rates,” said Morgan Stanley analyst Michael Cyprys, who has been covering the stocks for years.</p>\n<p>And all four firms have thrown themselves into raising so-called permanent or perpetual capital. It is money that doesn’t have to be returned or re-raised within a few years, as has historically been the norm with private-equity funds, and can keep churning out fees instead.</p>\n<p>The quest for such long-term capital has led them to develop platforms to manage assets for insurance companies and offer new products to individual investors.</p>\n<p>Long a leader in insurance, Apollo now gets more than $250 billion of its $471.8 billion in assets from insurance affiliatesAthene HoldingLtd.and Athora Holding Ltd. Apollo is solidifying the arrangement with a deal announced this year to buy the piece of Athene it doesn’t already own. Its rivals have all made recent movesaimed at catching up.</p>\n<p>Blackstone has led the charge on the industry’s other major permanent-capital front: individual investors. 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That is bigger than those of financial giants Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and BlackRock Inc. KKR’s stock performance has been even stronger over that period, edging out Blackstone’s by a few percentage points. (Blackstone’s performance over the past three years has trounced that of all three rivals.)\nShares of Carlyle, which historicallylagged behind those of peers, have shot up by nearly 160%. Even Apollo’s stock, which was weighed down by revelations of ties between former Chief Executive Leon Black and Jeffrey Epstein, has more than doubled.\nThe S&P 500 has risen by about 83% in that period, according to FactSet.\nPrivate-equity firms—big owners of assets purchased with significant amounts of debt—are ideally positioned to be outsize beneficiaries of current market dynamics. Low interest rates have made borrowing cheap and led yield-hungry investorsto funnel hundreds of billionsof dollars into the firms’ coffers.\nThe tailwinds were on recent display as the firms reported strong second-quarter results, pushing their shares up even further.\nThe spring for the group’s outperformance was loaded well before the pandemic began, when each firm opted in quick succession to abandon its partnership structure and become a C-corporation on the heels of the 2017 corporate tax cuts. The partnership structure had kept their billionaire founders in control but meant their stocks couldn’t be included in indexes, and shareholders had to endure extra tax requirements to own them.\nThe firms’ shares have been added to several indexes, and the S&P 500 could be next.\n“By being publicly traded partnerships, we created stocks that were difficult to own,” said Blackstone President Jonathan Gray. Becoming corporations meant “creating liquidity and a broader universe to buy these stocks,” he said.\nThe firms also ditched “economic net income,” a profit metric they had created for their public-market debuts that ended up being volatile and difficult to understand. They began to emphasize figures that matter more to public investors, including the amount of earnings that can be returned in the form of dividends and profit tied to management fees, which are more predictable than performance-related income.\nKKR earlier this year said it was tying employee compensation more closely to performance fees, enabling more of the management-fee stream to flow to public investors.\n“What the markets want are sticky, consistent fee streams that are recurring in nature with high re-up rates,” said Morgan Stanley analyst Michael Cyprys, who has been covering the stocks for years.\nAnd all four firms have thrown themselves into raising so-called permanent or perpetual capital. It is money that doesn’t have to be returned or re-raised within a few years, as has historically been the norm with private-equity funds, and can keep churning out fees instead.\nThe quest for such long-term capital has led them to develop platforms to manage assets for insurance companies and offer new products to individual investors.\nLong a leader in insurance, Apollo now gets more than $250 billion of its $471.8 billion in assets from insurance affiliatesAthene HoldingLtd.and Athora Holding Ltd. Apollo is solidifying the arrangement with a deal announced this year to buy the piece of Athene it doesn’t already own. Its rivals have all made recent movesaimed at catching up.\nBlackstone has led the charge on the industry’s other major permanent-capital front: individual investors. The firmhas been investing for yearsto create infrastructure to distribute and market products aimed at moderately wealthy individuals—a market it estimates is worth $80 trillion—and it has become clear in recent quarters that the effort is paying off in a big way.\nBREIT, the firm’s nontraded real-estate investment trust, and BCRED, a private-credit product likewise aimed at individual investors, have been raising a combined $4 billion in new capital each month, the firm said during its second-quarter earnings call last month.\nBlackstone’s peers are starting to follow suit. KKR in May rolled out a product to offer private real estate to individual investors. 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