The president of Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager, has predicted that the pain of inflation has peaked and that a year-long deal drought might soon come to an end.
Jonathan Gray said he was confident that markets had absorbed the “shock” of higher interest rates, signalling a possible return of deal activity now that US inflation has fallen sharply in recent months.
“Markets will normalise and transaction activity will pick back up,” he told the Financial Times. “It’s possible with the economy slowing you could have another pullback in markets, but we have made it through the inflation shock and most of the way through the interest rate shock.”