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Four out of NYCRS’ five pension systems are selling a more than $5.5bn portfolio to Blackstone Strategic Partners in a deal set to close at the end of March.

While $1bn portfolios are a more common factor in the market today, New York City’s sale stands apart as among the largest of all time.

The pension fund’s portfolio is the latest LP-led deal to come out of the APAC region.

The Canadian pension fund joins the likes of CalPERS, PSP Investments and World Bank in bringing a sizeable portfolio sale to the secondaries market.

The Taiwanese insurer’s portfolio sale deal could be around $2bn in size, Secondaries Investor has learned.

Both firms are understood to have purchased an equal amount of the roughly $1bn portfolio.

MEAG MUNICH ERGO, the asset management arm of European insurer, would rather see one good co-investment opportunity than be shown multiple bad ones, says head of PE and co-investments Gregory Schmitt.

Paul Sanabria and Jeff Hammer joined the asset management unit of Canada’s largest insurer in 2019 and have overseen its debut GP-led fundraise.

The US pension giant has come up with a pricing strategy that could make it benefit more from this portfolio sale, Secondaries Investor understands.

The US public pension’s offloading of around $2bn in credit fund stakes marks the latest sizeable deal in the maturing market.