BXPE Redemptions and NAV: Blackstone's Private Equity Fund Has Paid Every Request, and Its NAV Has Risen 32 Months Running

What BXPE is, in one paragraph

BXPE is Blackstone's private equity fund for wealthy individuals: an evergreen vehicle that takes money every month and invests across Blackstone's buyout, secondaries, hybrid capital, growth and life sciences strategies. It is not a mutual fund, an interval fund or a BDC. Both BXPE U.S. and the TE feeder are private funds “exempt from registration under Section 3(c)(7)” of the Investment Company Act, sold under Regulation D to investors who are both accredited investors and qualified purchasers, but they registered their units under the Exchange Act, so they file 10-Ks, 10-Qs and an 8-K every month with the price and the money raised. The feeder exists for tax-exempt and non-U.S. investors and owned 31.3% of BXPE U.S. at June 30, 2026. BXPE U.S. in turn owned 83.7% of BXPE US Aggregator (CYM) L.P., the entity that holds the investments. BXPE, which excludes the Luxembourg SICAV, had about $19.3 billion of Transactional NAV at August 31, 2026; adding the SICAV, the BXPE Fund Program had about $27.6 billion. There is no market for the units. The way out is the quarterly redemption plan.

Nine quarters of redemptions

Until mid-2025 BXPE ran each quarter's redemption as a tender offer and filed the result in a Schedule TO-I/A. From the October 2025 window the same numbers appear in the 10-Q or 10-K redemption table. The percentage is units redeemed over BXPE U.S. units outstanding at the start of the quarter (our arithmetic); the 3% cap is the plan's quarterly limit. Units redeemed include those of feeder holders, which are satisfied by redeeming the same number of BXPE U.S. units.

Two things stand out. The first is that the cap has never been in play: the largest quarter used about a sixth of it. The second is that the trend has turned up. The April 2026 window was 2.6 times the January window in units and almost three times in dollars, and January was three times October. The money is still small next to the fund's size: $61.1 million against about $14.7 billion of BXPE U.S. Transactional NAV at June 30, 2026 (our arithmetic: 0.41%). The October 2025 dollar figure is our subtraction of the nine-month total ($16.1 million) from the full-year total ($22.5 million) in the 10-K; the filing does not give it separately.

The average price is not the NAV. It mixes Class I and Class S units and is net of the 5% early redemption deduction on units held less than two years, which the fund keeps “for the benefit of all investors.”

The result for the July 2026 window, effective September 30, will be in the third-quarter 10-Q. On the timing of past reports (November 12, 2025 for the third quarter of 2025), that is mid-November 2026.

The rules: 3% a quarter, no carry-over, and a gate

The plan is described the same way in every 10-Q. BXPE U.S. “expects to periodically redeem up to 3 % of its Units outstanding per quarter” at the Transactional NAV on the date the plan specifies. If requests exceed the limit, redemptions are pro rata after death, disability and divorce cases. And a request that is not filled does not wait in line: “Unsatisfied redemption requests will not be automatically carried over to the next redemption period.”

The general partner, with the independent directors' approval, can also change or suspend the plan. The filing's own example of when: “Unit redemptions may not be available each quarter, such as when redemptions would place an undue burden on BXPE U.S.'s liquidity.” Some holders have extra limits. The 10-Q says “Certain unitholders have agreed to certain additional restrictions, including a minimum holding period,” and the October 2, 2026 8-K creates new unit series (Class I-Series IV and Series E, among others) that come with “early redemption deductions and/or minimum holding periods and redemption limitations, as applicable.”

BXPE does not pay distributions. The 10-Q: “While BXPE does not currently intend to declare distributions, it may determine to do so in the future.” All of the return is in the unit price, so redemption is the only way to get cash out.

Why the queue has not formed: new money

A 3% quarterly exit is easy to honour while far more money comes in than goes out. BXPE U.S. reports each month's sales in an 8-K, including the units the feeder buys on behalf of its own investors.

In the second quarter of 2026, BXPE U.S. sold $1,567.6 million of units and paid out $61.1 million, a ratio of about 26 to 1 (our arithmetic). Over 2025 it sold $4,216.4 million and redeemed $22.5 million. From launch through June 2026, the totals are about $11.39 billion in and $107.1 million out. The flows have not slowed: the four monthly sales from June to September 2026 averaged $591.7 million (our arithmetic), more than any single month of 2025.

The comparison that matters for a holder is the other way round: the redemption plan has never been tested by a quarter in which requests exceeded inflows. The Aggregator, which also serves a parallel fund, redeemed $110.2 million of units in the second quarter of 2026 against $19.4 million a year earlier.

NAV: 32 months up, and what it is made of

The Transactional NAV is the price for both purchases and redemptions, set at each month-end and published about four weeks later. Class I has gone up every month since launch.

From the $25.00 launch price, Class I is up 58.9% in 32 months (our arithmetic), with no distributions to add. The fund's own numbers: 20.0% for Class I in 2025, 14.2% in the first half of 2026 and 19.5% a year since inception at June 30, 2026. The largest monthly move was May 2026 (+4.27%), the smallest July 2026 (+0.36%). The 10-Q lists Anthropic and SpaceX among the investments that make up the top half of the Aggregator's NAV at June 30, 2026, alongside AirTrunk, Jersey Mike's, Hologic and L'Occitane; it does not give their individual values, so we cannot say how much of the May-June jump they explain.

A NAV with no down month in 32 is a valuation series, not a market price. The 10-Q describes what is weighing on it: “Broad geopolitical uncertainty has slowed overall realization activity across the private equity industry,” and “valuations of select software companies have been and may be negatively impacted going forward.” Fees come out before the NAV: a 1.25% management fee on Class I-Series I, a performance allocation of 12.5% of total return above a 5% hurdle with a high-water mark, and a 0.85% annual servicing fee on Class S. In the first half of 2026 the accrued performance allocation alone was 1.96% of the Aggregator's average net assets, non-annualized.

The gap between Transactional NAV and GAAP NAV

BXPE publishes two NAVs. GAAP NAV is in the financial statements. Transactional NAV, the one units are bought and redeemed at, adds back three items. At June 30, 2026, GAAP NAV per Class I unit was $38.33 and Transactional NAV $39.01.

Two of the adjustments are timing: offering costs are spread over 60 months from January 2025, and Class S, D and N servicing fees are charged monthly rather than accrued up front as GAAP requires. The third is a judgment call, defined in the 10-Q as an adjustment “to remove certain contingent tax liabilities which the General Partner reasonably expects will not be recognized upon divestment of the underlying investment.” It has grown from $10.4 million to $251.1 million in 18 months (our arithmetic: 1.70% of Transactional NAV at June 30, 2026). If those taxes were ever paid, the Transactional NAV that redeeming holders received would have been too high, and remaining holders would bear the difference. The filings do not say which investments the liabilities relate to.

Debt and commitments

At December 31, 2025 the registrants and the Aggregator had no debt outstanding. At June 30, 2026 the registrants and the Aggregator had $857.0 million of debt: $659.0 million on Bonavista, an asset-backed facility secured by syndicated loans, and $198.0 million on the Aggregator's revolving facility, whose commitments were raised to $2.65 billion in May 2026 at SOFR plus 3.00%. Against that, the Aggregator held $98.4 million of cash, $831.7 million of liquid debt investments and $2.5 billion of unused capacity, and had $2.2 billion of unfunded commitments to existing investments. Debt was about 4.9% of BXPE's $17.6 billion Transactional NAV (our arithmetic). The 10-Q does not tie the borrowing to redemptions; it lists redemptions among several uses of cash.

What a holder can do with this

• If you want to redeem: on the record so far, a request is paid in full at the quarter-end Transactional NAV, minus 5% if your units are less than two years old. The three most recent request windows ran in the first month of the quarter (October 1-31, 2025; January 2-30 and April 1-30, 2026), with payment effective at quarter-end. Check the exact window and form with your adviser or the fund's transfer agent.
• If you are deciding whether to wait: the 5% deduction falls away at two years. For units bought in January 2024, that point has passed; for units bought in 2025 it arrives in 2027.
• What would change the picture: a quarter in which requests exceed the 3% cap (they were 0.47% in April 2026), a drop in monthly sales from the $330-820 million range of 2026, or a first down month in the NAV. Each shows up in a filing we track: the monthly 8-K and the quarterly 10-Q.
• What to read in the next 10-Q (mid-November 2026): the July 2026 window, the tax-liability adjustment, and debt.

Other evergreen funds, same question: the private credit redemptions tracker lays out the BDCs that are prorating, BCRED is Blackstone's credit fund, and BREIT is its real estate one.

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All figures are from BXPE's SEC filings read on EDGAR on October 5, 2026: the final amendments to its Schedule TO-I tender offers of 2024 and 2025 (results filed August 5, 2024 through October 24, 2025), the 10-Ks for 2024 (accession 0001193125-25-054797) and 2025 (0001193125-26-106084), the 10-Qs for September 2025, March 2026 (0001930054-26-000009) and June 2026 (0001930054-26-000016), 33 monthly Form 8-Ks from January 2024 to September 2026, the credit-facility 8-K of May 29, 2026 and the unit-series 8-Ks of January 2 and October 2, 2026. Percentages of units outstanding, shares of the cap, ratios of inflows to redemptions, sums across months, monthly NAV changes and the October 2025 dollar amount are our arithmetic. This is analysis of public documents, not investment, legal or tax advice.