When buyout titan Blackstone said last month it was forced to put the gates up on BREIT, its gigantic $US68 billion property fund,Blackstone’s epic BREIT deal introduces a twist to the great private asset reset.But sceptics have warned investors underestimate the cost of owning hard-to-sell assets, while falsely assuming those investments are less volatile
The $US4 billion investment came amid further redemption requests for BREIT in December after the limits were imposed. What is clear is that UC, as an institutional investor, identified an opportunity where it could provide much-needed liquidity and make sure it did so on favourable terms.Ironically, BREIT was an open-ended structure aimed at giving individual investors access to private assets. But that also made it vulnerable to those same investors acting rationally by shifting their money into public assets, if they deemed it to be a better deal.
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