GHP Funds

SVP I

SVP I, the debut fund for the firm, closed in December 2002 and invested with four highly successful leveraged buyout funds. SVP I is diversified by sector and geography.

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SVP II

SVP II is a leveraged buyout fund of funds which closed in December 2006. SVP II represents a continuation of the successful strategy utilized by the predecessor fund, primarily investing with large, top tier LBO and growth equity firms. SVP II is diversified by sector and geography.

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SVP RE I

SVP Real Estate I, LP ("SVP RE I"), closed in February 2008, is a private real estate fund of funds. As with SVP I & II, SVP RE I received allocations with historically successful, highly sought after underlying fund managers who pursue compelling investment strategies. The fund is diversified by sector (Office, Hotel, Industrial/Warehouse, Retail and Residential) and geography (U.S., Europe, and Asia/Pacific).

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GHP COF

The GHP Credit Opportunity Fund (“GHP COF”) is a fund of alternative credit and distressed debt funds that is being raised and invested to pursue two specific investment themes: (1) the de-leveraging of European Banks, and (2) the potential for a distressed cycle in U.S. High Yield Credit. GHP COF will pursue complex liquid and illiquid credit opportunities in the U.S. and Europe.

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Blackstone’s fourth-quarter profit jumps 5% on private-equity gains

Posted on by Granite Hall Partners

Blackstone the world’s largest manager of alternative assets, said on Thursday a key measure of its earnings rose by 5 percent, helped by large gains in its private-equity unit and a strong performance by its real estate, credit, and hedge fund businesses. Blackstone followed its peer Apollo Global Management in reporting strong appreciation in its buyout funds and higher profits as both benefited from the stock market rally and a string of asset sales.

Economic net income, which reflects the mark-to-market valuation gains or losses on Blackstone’s portfolio and is a key earnings metric for U.S. private-equity firms, rose to $850 million from $811.6 million in the year-ago period.

Quarterly economic net income was 71 cents per share, ahead of analysts’ average expectation of 67 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. “In 2017, we took in $108 billion of capital inflows, invested more than $50 billion, and returned more than $55 billion to our limited partner investors through realizations — all new records for the firm,” Blackstone Chief Executive Stephen Schwarzman said in a statement.

New York-based Blackstone agreed this week to buy a majority stakein the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters, the parent of Reuters News. Blackstone’s assets under management rose to a record $434.1 billion in the fourth quarter, up from $387 billion in the previous quarter. The value of Blackstone’s private-equity funds, which account for around a quarter of its assets, rose 6.8 percent in the three months to end of December.

Fourth-quarter distributable earnings — the actual cash available for paying dividends — was up 94 percent on a year at $1.2 billion, as Blackstone took advantage of strong corporate valuations to exit some of its investments.

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