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Non-residents who spend millions of dollars on NYC apartments help drive NYC’s economy. Most of the profit in condominium development is in the penthouses. The Ken Griffins of the world make NYC high end development viable, driving high-paying construction, brokerage, legal, marketing, and other jobs in NYC. We should be applauding Ken for spending $238 million in NYC, not attacking him for doing so. Importantly, non-resident owners of NYC apartments who leave their apartments vacant for much of the year are not a burden to NYC schools, services, or other resources while they drive growth in retail sales, restaurants, theater, and other important drivers of our economy. They also often support NYC non-profits with donations. Ken’s company is a major employer in NYC of very high paying jobs which drive a considerable amount of our tax base. We wouldn’t want him to move even more employees to Miami. These non-resident owners also already pay a lot of taxes including mansion taxes, real estate taxes, sales taxes and more. While @NYCMayor Mamdani likes the tag line ‘Tax the rich.’ Unfortunately, his policies will harm the constituencies he is supposedly trying to help. I can’t imagine the NYC construction unions are excited about his plan.









I attended a breakfast roundtable with $APO's Marc Rowan. Some quotes (starting with my favorite): > "It's not private equity. It's equity that is private" -- this is how he described an actual PE deal done with $3B in debt and $8B in equity (underwritten to 13% IRR, btw) > they have $15B in this private equity that's not private equity, expect this sleeve to grow to $40B by EOY. > private equity that *is* private equity is at $100B and is NOT a growth business for them. > "There is virtually no difference between PC and BSL. BSL loans are just held by multiple lenders" -- don't shoot the messenger, guys > APO's exposure to retail investors in semi-liquid vehicles is only $16B (against $1T in assets) > The firm made a deliberate decision to not offer PE in a semi-liquid form, and he strongly dislikes use of NAV as practical expedient > They see great opportunity in the 401(K) market (no surprises here) > If you expect more transparency on the portco level, it ain't coming (I asked)


Jason Kelce is rocking a full caddie outfit for the Par 3 Contest 😅














