At this year’s CTAD meeting earlier this month in San Diego, anti-amyloid antibodies—both the approved ones and “shuttled” versions hard on their heels—continued to command attention (see parts nine;…
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Blackstone Announces Intra-Quarter Realization Update Relating to the Fourth Quarter
NEW YORK – December 23, 2025 – Blackstone today announced its estimate of revenue related to realization activity for the period from October 1, 2025 to December 23, 2025. This estimate does not include revenue from any realization activity that may occur subsequent to December 23, 2025. Based on information currently available, Blackstone preliminarily expects to record total Realized Performance Revenues and total Realized Principal Investment Income for such period in excess of $1.0 billion, comprised of over 80% Realized Performance Revenues. In addition to revenue related to investment realizations closed to date in the fourth quarter, this estimate includes certain non-fee related incentive fees and other investment income expected to be realized at quarter end.
The preliminary estimate regarding realization activity for the period from October 1, 2025 to December 23, 2025 disclosed above is not intended to predict or represent total Realized Performance Revenues, total Realized Principal Investment Income or total Segment Revenues for the quarter ending December 31, 2025, and results for the full quarter may differ materially. This estimate does not include the results or impact of any other sources of income, including fee income, or expenses, and Blackstone may realize further gains or losses relating to total Realized Performance Revenues and total Realized Principal Investment Income for the full quarter. It is also not indicative of the results that may be expected for any other period, including the year ending December 31, 2025.About Blackstone
Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. We seek to deliver compelling returns for institutional and individual investors by strengthening the companies in which we invest. Our over $1.2 trillion in assets under management include global investment strategies focused on real estate, private equity, credit, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, secondaries and hedge funds. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com. Follow @blackstone on LinkedIn, X (Twitter), and Instagram.Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which reflect our current views with respect to, among other things, a preliminary estimate regarding revenue we expect to record related to realization activity. You can identify these forward-looking statements by the use of words such as “outlook,” “indicator,” “believes,” “expects,” “potential,” “continues,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “seeks,” “approximately,” “predicts,” “intends,” “plans,” “scheduled,” “estimates,” “anticipates,” “opportunity,” “leads,” “forecast” or the negative version of these words or other comparable words. Such forward-looking statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, there are or will be important factors that could cause actual outcomes or results to differ materially from those indicated in these statements, including significant market developments that occur subsequent to December 23, 2025. We believe these factors also include but are not limited to those described under the section entitled “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, as such factors may be updated from time to time in our subsequent filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), which are accessible on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. These factors should not be construed as exhaustive and should be read in conjunction with the other cautionary statements that are included in this announcement and in our other periodic filings. The forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this announcement, and we undertake no obligation to publicly update or review any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.Investor Contact
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Scientists Found the Deepest Known Arctic Vent—and It’s Teeming With Life
Beneath cold, high-pressure oceans, water and gas molecules clump together into crystalline solids called gas hydrates. During a research cruise around the North Pole, scientists encountered the deepest gas hydrate ever…
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Johnston fined maximum for roughing in Ducks game
NEW YORK — Anaheim Ducks forward Ross Johnston has been fined $2,864.58, the maximum allowable under the Collective Bargaining Agreement, for roughing Seattle Kraken forward Tye Kartye during NHL Game No. 573 in Anaheim on Monday, Dec. 22, the…
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2026 Conference on Auditing and Capital Markets
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), in conjunction with Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR), is pleased to announce the 2026 Conference on Auditing and Capital Markets. This year’s conference will be held in person in Washington, D.C. on September 10-11, 2026. Attendance is free and open to academics, Ph.D. students, and financial regulators.
The conference aims to:
- Foster rigorous economic research on audit-related topics, including the economic impact of auditing, audit regulation, and audit oversight on capital markets.
- Inform the academic community about PCAOB activities and developments.
- Obtain input from the academic community on topics of interest to the PCAOB.
Paper Submission and Selection
The conference organizers invite researchers to submit working papers regarding all aspects of auditing issuers and brokers and dealers as well as the impact of audit regulation and audit oversight. Papers employing any research methodology will be considered, provided the approach is rigorous and well-suited to the paper’s research question.
All submitted papers will go through a blind review process by a program committee of PCAOB Office of Economic and Risk Analysis staff, CAR editors, and other academic experts to determine which researchers will be invited to present their papers at the conference.
Papers to be considered for this conference should be emailed to [email protected] by May 15, 2026. Please send a PDF version of your working paper, with a separate file for the title page from the paper to facilitate a blind review and specify “PCAOB Conference on Auditing and Capital Markets” in your email subject line.
Evaluation of Papers for CAR Submission
Several CAR editors will attend the conference and, shortly following the conference, will invite those authors whose projects appear particularly promising to submit that research to CAR for review and consideration for publication. The CAR editors will provide the authors of invited papers with comments for revision with the goal of expediting the review process. Invited papers should follow CAR’s editorial policy and be submitted via CAR’s electronic office.
Timeline
May 15, 2026: Submission of working papers for consideration for presentation at the conference.
July 31, 2026: Authors will be notified whether their paper is selected for presentation at the conference.
September 10-11, 2026: Presentation of selected papers at the conference.
October 4, 2026: Authors of a subset of papers selected by CAR editors will be invited to submit their papers to CAR for review and consideration for publication.
Conference Attendance
The conference will be held in-person in Washington, D.C. Attendance is free. Academics, Ph.D. students, and financial regulators interested in attending should contact the conference organizers at [email protected].
Continuing Professional Education Credit
We anticipate that this event will qualify for CPE credit. We will share additional details on CPE closer to the date of the conference.
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NM attorney general announces $9M multi-state settlement with Kia, Hyundai over car theft – Source New Mexico
- NM attorney general announces $9M multi-state settlement with Kia, Hyundai over car theft Source New Mexico
- Kia and Hyundai will spend millions fixing old cars to stop ‘Kia Boyz’ thefts The Verge
- Car theft settlements, Greenlink North gets stalled, and a new North Las Vegas civic building KNPR
- Ellison announces Kia, Hyundai settlement over auto thefts Minnesota Lawyer
- Hyundai and Kia will repair millions of vehicles under a deal to fix anti-theft technology The Bismarck Tribune
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Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific Khaled Khiari's – Remarks to the Security Council on Venezuela (New York, 23 December 2025) – ReliefWeb
- Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia, and the Pacific Khaled Khiari’s – Remarks to the Security Council on Venezuela (New York, 23 December 2025) ReliefWeb
- De-escalation urged as US-Venezuela tensions simmer Dawn
- Venezuela…
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Soyuz rocket to launch first Obzor radar satellite
Soyuz rocket to launch first Obzor radar satellite
A long-delayed all-weather imaging satellite will go into orbit on a Soyuz rocket on Dec. 24, 2025. The Obzor-R project was initially developed by the Roskosmos State Corporation within its…
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Acsa Enables Granular Sentiment Analysis With Zero-Shot Learning And Unified Meaning Representation Across Domains
Aspect-Category Sentiment Analysis (ACSA) unlocks detailed understanding of customer opinions by pinpointing specific topics within reviews and gauging associated sentiment, but building effective ACSA systems traditionally requires large…
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Office of Public Affairs | Justice Department Reaches Proposed Consent Decree with LivCor, One of America’s Largest Landlords, to Resolve Information Sharing and Algorithmic Coordination Claims
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division filed a proposed consent decree today to resolve the United States’ claims against LivCor, LLC, a Blackstone portfolio company, as part of its ongoing enforcement action in the Middle District of North Carolina against algorithmic coordination and other anticompetitive practices in rental markets across the country. Today’s proposed decree builds on the Justice Department’s success in obtaining proposed consent decrees in the same enforcement action against RealPage, Inc. and two other large landlords, Cortland Management, LLC and Greystar Management Services, LLC.
On January 7, 2025, the United States, together with its state co-plaintiffs, filed a complaint alleging that LivCor, along with five other landlords, actively participated in a scheme to set their rents using each other’s competitively sensitive information through common pricing algorithms. As alleged in Plaintiffs’ complaint, LivCor and other landlords, including five codefendants, shared competitively sensitive data to generate pricing recommendations using RealPage’s algorithms, which also included anticompetitive rules that aligned their pricing. In addition, LivCor and other landlords discussed competitively sensitive topics—including pricing strategies, rents, and selected parameters for RealPage’s software—directly with each other.
“The Trump-Vance Administration is committed to an economy that works for all Americans,” said Assistant Attorney General Abigail Slater of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division. “Landlords across America are on notice that the competition laws protect renters from the harms caused by competitors sharing competitively sensitive information or aligning prices, whether through an algorithm or otherwise.”
If approved by the court, the proposed consent decree would require LivCor to:
- Refrain from using any anticompetitive algorithm that generates pricing recommendations using its competitors’ competitively sensitive data or that incorporates certain anticompetitive features;
- Refrain from sharing competitively sensitive information with competitors;
- Accept a court-appointed monitor if it uses a third-party pricing algorithm that is not certified pursuant to the terms of the consent decree;
- Refrain from attending or participating in RealPage-hosted meetings of competing landlords; and
- Cooperate with the United States’ claims against other defendants.
As required by the Tunney Act, the proposed settlement, along with a competitive impact statement, will be published in the Federal Register. Any interested person should submit written comments concerning the proposed settlement within 60 days following the publication to Danielle Hauck, Acting Chief, Technology and Digital Platforms Section, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 450 Fifth Street NW, Suite 7050, Washington, DC 20530. At the conclusion of the public comment period, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina may enter the final judgment upon finding it is in the public interest.
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