Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In conversation with Top1000funds almost exactly two years since her promotion to the top job, she is mindful of how the portfolio’s size could impact its ability to continue to generate the pension fund’s strongest return of 15.5 It provides a level of analysis that goes much deeper than just persistency of returns, she says.

Portfolios 69

Portfolios Pension Funds Due Diligence Investing 69

Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 20, 2023

My take: This is a great deal for BCI and Searchlight, a private equity firm BCI seeded. Consolidated Communications is a leading fiber-first provider and it will grow nicely as a private company with BCI/ Searchlight as its partners. Institutional investors see private debt as an area of huge opportunity in the coming years.

Investing 59

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Pension Pulse

MAY 8, 2023

So, Rebolledo returned with a team and a search warrant. No pension fund wants to invest in private companies that abuse immigrant children. I still don't and when I see these flagrant abuses at private companies, I'd be even tougher on them, lawyering up and using private investigators extensively.

Due Diligence 52

Due Diligence Pension Funds Education Mutual Funds 52

Pension Pulse

APRIL 9, 2024

The company’s Queen Victoria Market project is part of an A$1.7 Like I said, in Canada, we are behind the student housing curve, we need a private company like Scape to set up operations here. Construction is expected to begin in the coming months with completion set for the 2028 fiscal year.

Pension Funds 59

Pension Funds Education Leveraging Assets 59

The Big Picture

JULY 11, 2023

If you’re a private company, you don’t have any of those pressures. RITHOLTZ: Does that insulate you from the sort of short-term activist, what about this quarter’s returns when you’re making those long-term investments in technology? We actually acquired in 2007 a local asset management.

Mutual Funds 88

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Pension Pulse

JULY 4, 2023

The company leaks more water than any other water company in UK, losing the equivalent of up to 250 Olympic size swimming pools every day from its pipes. Its chief executive, Sarah Bentley, resigned last week, weeks after she was asked to forgo her bonus over the company's handling of sewage spills.

Pension Funds 52

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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. ADMATI: We’re at the mercy of these private companies. RITHOLTZ: Because they’re private companies. But the Sacklers took away a whole bunch of money to private company.

Banks 81

Banks Debt Financing Finance 81

The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Just really a fascinating history from, from a private company to a public company back to a, a partnership. He is uniquely situated because he has run both public mutual funds as well as privates, including late stage venture private equity credit down the list. Really interesting. In terms of being that specific.

Hedge Funds 64

Hedge Funds Mutual Funds Funds Due Diligence 64

The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

That’s after returning a big chunk of capital and profits to their investors. They invest primarily in private and public companies. So I had started a third company called Room 77 that we had end up selling to Google. I had just gotten married in the fall of 2007. Once again? I have an extra special guest.

Hedge Funds 98

Hedge Funds Venture Capital Startups Capital 98

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. Like I think that, like there are a lot of people signing a public company merger agreement is sort of different from like signing a letter of intent to buy a private company, right?

Mergers and Acquisitions 52

Mergers and Acquisitions Law Firms Hedge Funds Financing 52

The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

So the theory was that’s great that you’re providing a loan, but if you can co-invest with them and get the upside of partnering with some of the most successful private equity funds in the United States, you know, a great way to enhance your returns. Yes, there’s a lot of liquidity in private equity.

Private Equity Firms 59

Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Financing Finance 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

Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

With the deal, the Caisse is adding to its roster of renewable energy investments and flexing its muscle under its dual mandate, which is to promote Quebecs economic development while earning the best possible returns for shareholders. The transaction continues a wider trend of renewable energy companies being taken private.

Pension Funds 59

Pension Funds Shareholders Legal Stakes 59

The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

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. It’s now become giant, dominated by four firms, and no longer generating outsized returns. Anyway, Gretchen is a legend on Wall Street.

Private Equity Firms 59

Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Financing Finance 59

The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It’s the fall of 2007. Which on the books, if all you’re thinking about is you’re in a cubicle and you’re analyzing numbers for some publicly traded company, you slash inventory, you’ve lowered, or I’m sorry, you’ve increased return on asset because inventory is asset, right?

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