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Blackstone’s BREIT and other funds curb investor redemptions

January 17, 2023

Blackstone’s BREIT and other funds curb investor redemptions

January 17, 2023

Blackstone’s BREIT and other funds curb investor redemptions

January 16, 2023 | Arleen Jacobius | Pensions & Investments

While open-end real estate fund managers are very publicly dealing with a flood of redemption requests from retail investors, clients of institutional funds are more quietly seeking to get their money out to take gains in advance of more potential write-downs or to rebalance their portfolios.

Managers of private REITs — a type of real estate open-end fund —have been struck by increasing redemption requests.

Blackstone Inc. and Starwood Capital Group in December reported putting up gates, meaning they slowed down redemptions to a trickle at the end of last year. And institutional real estate open-end fund managers are also being hit by an increasing number of redemption requests, industry insiders said.

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