<p style="line-height: 20.8px;">Bruce Flatt, chief executive officer of Brookfield Asset Management Inc., is putting Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, KKR & Co., and others on notice that his Toronto– based firm is about to make a major push into private equity. Flatt says his buyout firm will earn comparisons to the largest of Wall Street’s alternative-asset managers. “If you don’t mention it today, you should,” Flatt said in an interview at his New York office with Bloomberg Television’s Erik Schatzker.</p>