Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Back in 2007 when Kim began what would turn into a 16-year stint heading up the fund’s Asian private equity business (she was the firm’s first hire outside Toronto when the portfolio was just C$4.4 Higher interest rates signpost a higher cost of doing business that will impact portfolio companies’ performance and multiples.

Portfolios 69

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) Richard Manley said this: "At CPP Investments, we believe the value of companies integrating sustainability effectively into their strategy, operations and financial disclosures is increasing. My take: This is a great deal for BCI and Searchlight, a private equity firm BCI seeded.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 8, 2023

So, it was a shock in 2022 to learn that an American company, owned by a Wall Street firm, sent children as young as 13 to work in slaughterhouses. The disgrace was more disturbing because the company, PSSI, is vital to national food safety and its owner, Blackstone, claims to be a model of management. Shannon Rebolledo: Not at all.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 9, 2024

Having built a team of more than 700 staff, including in-house development, design and operations teams, the company promotes its ability to invest in systems, technology, and security which provide an institutional grade living setting for its tenants and reliable returns for investors.

Pension Funds 59

Pension Funds Education Leveraging Assets 59

The Big Picture

JULY 11, 2023

Just an incredible, insightful conversation about how to build a company, how to grow through acquisitions, how to make sure everybody on your team understands their role, is appreciated, and is acting and performing at the highest levels. And those are the same problems for big companies as little companies. RITHOLTZ: Right.

Mutual Funds 88

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

They invest primarily in private and public companies. Pete Legal, had built an RV company called Cobra, sold it or partnered with private equity, had a bad experience, left that, and said, I’m gonna do it over again. And he had a little startup RV company called Forest River. 00:08:32 [Speaker Changed] Okay.

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Hedge Funds Venture Capital Startups Capital 98

The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Michael Carmen is co-head of private Markets at Wellington Management. Wellington’s a fascinating company. Just really a fascinating history from, from a private company to a public company back to a, a partnership. And today, as you know, you have companies like Stripe doing $55 billion rounds, right?

Hedge Funds 64

Hedge Funds Mutual Funds Funds Due Diligence 64

The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

So, until the financial crisis of 2007 and 2009 or however you go — you actually time it, I was in this finance bubble. Stuff that we teach in basic courses is very static theory of how companies fund and it’s like one round of funding, debt and equity, and then the world is over. I was teaching corporate finance.

Banks 81

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Pension Pulse

JULY 4, 2023

The Reading-based company has at least £14 billion of borrowings at a time of sharply rising interest rates and huge investment demands, putting a huge strain on its balance sheet. The company said customers in the W6, W12 and W14 postcodes of west London were reporting low pressure or no water.

Pension Funds 52

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

But there’s also a lot of, like at Wittel, you know, I was at Wachtel in 2005 to 2007, so really near the peak of a big merger’s boom. I tell people like there’s this time when we, you know, we had like two sets of bidders for some company, like on in conference rooms on different floors. And I love that.

Mergers and Acquisitions 52

Mergers and Acquisitions Law Firms Hedge Funds Finance 52

The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

What most people don’t realize is that that deal had been hanging around as a potential transaction for a long time, and a lot of firms had looked at it, and it had conversations with the company. companies, and had lots of very talented folks that we work with. A lot of these companies were becoming very large.

Private Equity Firms 59

Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Finance Financing 59

The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2025

Even amid tariff uncertainty clouding the near-term picture, several private companies are now on track to go public. The story includes a founder returning to lead a company from which he had previously been fired (Steve Jobs, anyone?), Eventually, StubHub sold itself to eBay in January 2007 for $310 million.

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Mergers and Acquisitions Initial Public Offering New York Stock Exchange Debt 130

The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

But we talk about some really fascinating things, 30% of operating rooms are managed and run by doctors employed by private equity. We looked at everything from retail to nursing homes to hospitals to insurance companies to manufacturers. Really, private equity used to be a small, outperforming sector of alternatives.

Private Equity Firms 59

Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Finance Financing 59

Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

based company at about $2.8-billion. A long-term vision under private ownership, bolstered by better access to capital, will help the company seize growth opportunities, he said. The transaction continues a wider trend of renewable energy companies being taken private. per cent stake.

Pension Funds 59

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It’s the fall of 2007. Whether it’s like, how do these trading companies work despite American sanctions? About McKinsey and Company. 00:29:27 [Speaker Changed] So Walmart is the ultimate example of how publicly traded companies have undercut costs in the name of gratifying consumers with low prices.

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