Top 10 High Dividend Companies To Own In Right Now

Top 10 High Dividend Companies To Own In Right Now: The Blackstone Group L.P.(BX)

The Blackstone Group, L.P., together with its subsidiaries, provides alternative asset management and financial advisory services worldwide. The company operates in five segments: Private Equity, Real Estate, Hedge Fund Solutions, Credit Businesses, and Financial Advisory. The Private Equity segment involves in private equity investing through five general private equity funds and one specialized fund focusing on communications-related investments. This segment engages in various transactions comprising leveraged buyout acquisitions of seasoned companies, transactions involving growth equity or start-up businesses in established industries, minority investments, corporate partnerships, distressed debt, structured securities, and industry consolidations. The Real Estate segment manages general opportunistic real estate funds and internationally focused opportunistic real estate funds. This segment also has debt investment funds targeting non-controlling real estate debt-rel ated investment opportunities in the public and private markets, primarily in the United States and Europe. The Hedge Fund Solutions segment manages funds of hedge funds, and Indian-focused and Asian-focused closed-end mutual funds. The Credit Businesses segment manages credit-oriented funds, CLOs, credit-focused separately managed accounts, and publicly registered debt-focused investment companies. The Financial Advisory segment offers financial and strategic advisory, including corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions advice; restructuring and reorganization advisory; and fund placement services for alternative investment funds. Blackstone Group Management L.L.C. operates as the general partner of the company. The Blackstone Group, L.P. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Advisors' Opinion:

[By Jayson Derrick]

Bloomberg first reported that Blackstone (NYSE: BX) plans to spin off its financial advisory division. The company confirmed that it will spin off the division to a new publicly-traded firm. Blackstone holders will own around 65 percent of the new company. Shares lost 0.57 percent, closing at $29.60.

[By Matt Egan]

Other financial firms set to reveal results this week include Blackstone (BX), Citigroup (C) and Morgan Stanley (MS).

  Running of the bull markets

Tech titans to the rescue: Expect tech stocks to be the rock stars on earnings this week.

[By Laura Brodbeck]

Thursday

Earnings Expected From: SAP AG (NYSE: SAP), Novartis AG (NYSE: NVS), UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (NYSE: UNH), Mattel, Inc, (NASDAQ: MAT), Key Corp (NYSE: KEY), Philip Morris International (NYSE: PM), Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), PPG Industries, Inc (NYSE: PPG), The Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX), Schlumberger N.V. (NYSE: SLB), International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) Economic Releases Expected:  Chinese house prices, US housing starts, eurozone CPI, Hong Kong’s unemployment rate

Friday

[By Maria Armental and Anna Prior]

Independent refiner PBF Energy Inc.(PBF) announced a secondary offering of 18 million shares by funds affiliated with Blackstone Group LP(BX) and First Reserve Management LP. Shares of PBF Energy fell 4.3% to $30.04 in premarket trading.

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