Paris-based Ardian has acquired a $1.75 billion portfolio of 17 limited partner stakes in private equity funds from the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System (PSERS), according to a statement.
The $52 billion pension sold the portfolio in an effort to restructure its asset allocation.
“PSERS is endeavouring to reduce its exposure to private equity to 15 percent of the fund’s size, and the depth of the secondary market makes possible a large asset sale that will bring up closer to our long-term target,” PSERS chief investment officer James Grossman said in the statement.
Cogent Partners advised PSERS on the transaction, which closed in December 2014.
The PSERS portfolio is one of several large acquisitions Ardian completed last year. In September the firm closed a $2.38 billion deal for 40 LP interests from an undisclosed sovereign wealth fund. Earlier in 2014, Ardian bought a portfolio of 36 LP interests from another sovereign wealth fund for $1.36 billion. It also purchased a portfolio of stakes from GE Capital in April.
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