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This is Masters in Business with Barry Redholz on Bloomberg Radio.

This week on the podcast I have an extra special guest, Joan Solotar.

She's the global head of private wealth solutions at private investment giant blackstone.

They run about $684 billion in assets.

The private wealth solution group runs over $100 billion and this is name it.

If you're interested in any sort of alternative investment from private equity to real estate

to non-traded reeds to debt and credit, you're going to find this to be absolutely fascinating.

Joan has had really an amazing career from research to she helped bring blackstone public.

She's just got a tremendous background and is incredibly knowledgeable about the space.

I strongly suggest listening to this twice because a lot of stuff goes by quickly with

no further ado my conversation with Joan Solotar.

My special guest this week is Joan Solotar. She is blackstones global head of private wealth.

Solutions she has been named one of the 100 most influential women in finance several

years running.

Blackstone is the world's largest alternative asset manager with $684 billion in assets.

Joan's department.

The private wealth solution manages over $100 billion in assets.

We're joining blackstone in 2007.

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