Continuing Education Program - Blackstone Private Wealth Solutions

Education Is the Key to Private Markets

Listen to Joan Solotar, global head of Blackstone Private Wealth Solutions, explain Blackstone’s commitment to education on private market investing.

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Essentials Curriculum

Hear some of Blackstone’s top thinkers explain how private markets can improve portfolio diversification and reduce correlation to stock and bond market performance.

Private market investments as core portfolio building blocks
Basic features of private equity, private credit, and private real estate
Private-market managers’ value-creation capabilities, and the impact on portfolios

Eligible for 1 hour of CE credit for CFP/IWI/CFA and self-reporting designations

Defining the asset class and the drivers of its rapid ascent
Basic features and demystifying terminology
Implementing private credit in a portfolio today

Eligible for 1 hour of CE credit for CFP/IWI/CFA and self-reporting designations

Overview of the asset class including the key types of private equity
Case studies on how private equity managers partner with companies
How private equity can fit into portfolios today

Eligible for 1 hour of CE credit for CFP/IWI/CFA and self-reporting designations

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Private Market Perspectives Curriculum

Hear Blackstone’s thought leaders on the themes shaping markets today.

Blackstone senior leaders share their perspectives on the state of the private credit and real estate markets and the importance of sector and manager selection in today’s environment.

Eligible for 1 hour of CE credit for CFP/IWI/CFA and self-reporting designations

Joe Dowling, previous CEO, CIO and CFO of Brown Endowment, and Blackstone leaders, Nadeem Meghji and Joe Zidle, discuss the evolution of private markets, including real estate, and how we believe a core allocation to private markets may provide diversification and return benefits to investor portfolios.

Eligible for 1 hour of CE credit for CFP/IWI/CFA and self-reporting designations

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Essentials of Private Markets

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Frequently Asked Questions

We offer CE credit for our live webinar series: Private Markets Perspectives, our virtual Blackstone Universities and our on-demand education program on this page.

Please provide your designation details in the registration form when signing up for a course.

Blackstone is a CE sponsor at the CFP Board and the Investments and Wealth Institute (IWI), which include CIMA, CPWA and RMA designations. For each course, you are required to watch the entire video and score at least a 70% in a 10-question quiz following the video. You can also self-report credits with any designation that allows it such as CFA.

Our team submits course participants’ CFP and/or IWI designation details weekly, but please allow time as the CE credits may not appear immediately on your organization’s website.

Yes. Upon completion of a course, we provide a certificate that can be used to self-report CE credits. You can download it in the viewing console or via the link in the registration email after the completion of requirements.

We have included a technical help guide in the menu at the bottom of our viewing console. For any additional questions, you can email us at [email protected]