Blackstone to Present at the Citi 2012 Financial Services Conference


New York, February 28th, 2012 – Blackstone (NYSE:BX), announced today that Laurence A. Tosi, Chief Financial Officer of Blackstone, is scheduled to present at the Citi 2012 Financial Services Conference on Thursday, March 8, 2012 at 8:45am EST.

A live audio webcast of the presentation will be available on the Investor

Relations section of Blackstone’s website at http://ir.blackstone.com/

For those unable to listen to the live audio webcast, a replay will be available on Blackstone’s website shortly after the event.

Please direct any questions regarding the webcast to Blackstone’s Investor Relations group at [email protected].

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