BCI owned C$28.3 billion ($20.6 billion) of private equity assets as of March 31, 2023, more than 10% of its holdings. It’s not clear which assets the pension manager intends to sell. BCI is an investor in dozens of private equity funds, including products managed by Bain Capital, Brookfield Asset Management and CVC.
Some institutional investors hit their allocation limits to private equity when interest rate hikes in 2022 caused the value of publicly traded stocks and bonds to sink.
When high borrowing costs constrained deal activity, it also hindered the ability of private equity fund managers to make distributions to their investors. That’s spurred some endowments and pensions to unload private equity stakes to raise cash and make room for new investments.
Investment Management Corp. of Ontario, for example, sold some of its stakes in infrastructure funds in the secondary market and may do the same in private equity, Chief Investment Officer Rossitsa Stoyanova told Bloomberg this month.
In November, Ardian announced it had acquired a $2.1 billion portfolio of limited partnership interests in 20 private equity funds from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
Source:BNN Bloomberg
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