Wesley LePatner, a Blackstone executive who served as CEO of the firm’s real estate income trust, was among four people killed Monday when a gunman opened fire in a Midtown Manhattan office building that houses Blackstone’s global headquarters.

  • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    That’s because everyone hates hedge funds when you describe what they do. If you just say a “real estate investment group” a lot of people will still get it, so they say nothing in the hopes that your eyes glaze over and you don’t think any more about it.