Blackstone plans to list some of its largest investments, the world’s biggest private capital group said on Thursday, after sluggish asset sales hit its third-quarter profits.
Jonathan Gray, Blackstone’s president, said the recent technology-fuelled rally in global stock markets signalled a likely return of investor interest in initial public offerings. He argued that this paved the way for share sales by the group, whose global assets now total $1.1tn.
“We are preparing to take some portfolio companies public . . . I would say the discussions have gone from theoretical to practical and we are talking about things like timing,” Gray said in an interview with the Financial Times.