Overview
- Blackstone is exploring packaging more than $2 billion of stakes from its Strategic Partners vehicle into a collateralized fund obligation, according to multiple reports.
- The firm has tapped Jefferies to advise on the potential securitization, which would slice the portfolio into bond-like tranches sold mainly to insurers and other institutional buyers.
- Blackstone has not committed to the CFO and may instead sell the stakes on the secondary market, signalling the process is a market test for price and demand rather than a finished deal.
- The move responds to a wider exit problem in private equity, where roughly $4 trillion of assets remain unrealized and holdings from 2020–2022 have been hardest to monetise.
- If completed, the transaction would rank among the largest CFOs to date and could prompt more managers to use securitization as a liquidity tool while directly affecting limited partners waiting for distributions.