The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They’re one of the older private equity firms around, been been in business since 1994. So I had worked for two private equity firms when I got outta Stanford. What is the secret to successfully growing a private equity firm for you’re coming up on your 30th year?

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

And they all develop their own little system of useful terms, but then they end up becoming almost like a barrier that makes it hard for an outsider who hasn’t grown up in the world of finance, who doesn’t have a father who ran a hedge fund or an uncle who ran a private equity firm. RITHOLTZ: Good timing, yes.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The statement, sent exclusively to the National Post , marks the first time Poilievre has explicitly addressed the issue of Alberta’s proposal to withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and set up its own pension fund. My take: This is a great deal for BCI and Searchlight, a private equity firm BCI seeded.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 20, 2023

Prior to joining CPP Investments in 2008, Andrew worked for Fortress Investment Group investing in credit opportunities. Importantly, no other large Canadian pension fund has allocated as much to Credit as CPP Investments (or Private Equity which makes up 33% of of its total assets).

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Pension Pulse

MAY 8, 2023

For all the years the investigation found child labor, PSSI has been owned by Wall Street's Blackstone--the largest private equity firm in the world. No pension fund wants to invest in private companies that abuse immigrant children.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

And by the way, we had success, that fund of, we started with the $110 million. By the time 2008 came around, we had about $5 billion. Investing in secondary debt took off in 2008. So as a firm in 2008, we started to go down a different path. 00:25:59 [Speaker Changed] Really? In, in those years doing what we do.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

So I worked at a private equity firm, that middle market private equity firm Yale had money with. It started on January 1 of 2008. RITHOLTZ: Great timing for hedge funds, right? SEIDES: In Warren’s 2008 annual letter, I think it was 2008, he made a statement. SEIDES: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

You had a lot of the big buyout firms, they were doing the transactions in the ‘80s, in the early ‘90s. But, you know, these large firms were spinning off smaller private equity firms. So lots of folks work there that now run very large alternative asset management firms and credit arms of firms.,

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The Motley Fool

JULY 20, 2023

In fact, virtually all of our drawdown funds we've launched in our history, have been profitable for our investors. Our performance has helped secure retirees' pensions, fund students educations, pay healthcare benefits, and protect and grow the savings of individual investors.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

based private equity firm focused on buyout and growth opportunities. Exited our co-investment in Vistra, a leading provider of trust, fund and corporate services based in Hong Kong with a resilient, scalable, and enterprise-wide technology platform. STAR Capital is a mid-market, U.K.-based Read his full comment here.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 5, 2024

IMCO CEO Bert Clark posted a comment on LinkedIn going over the Canadian model and other thoughts from the Fiduciary Investors Symposium: I recently had the pleasure of speaking at Top1000 Funds’ Fiduciary Investors Symposium Toronto 2024. The solution isn’t having pension funds invest more in the existing opportunity set.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

The current book is called “These Are the Plunderers, How Private Equity Runs and Wrecks America” That’s a little bit of a sensationalistic headline. When we spoke, the focus and conversation really emphasizes the largest of the large private equity firms. And that’s why we’re focusing on them.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

That restores a board seat the deputy minister held at AIMCo’s inception in 2008, which was removed a year later Three other former AIMCo directors, who were dismissed on Nov. AIMCo is Canada’s sixth-largest pension fund manager, investing money on behalf of 17 clients. and raising questions about its independence.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 15, 2024

gain for its latest fiscal year, with returns driven largely by public equity investments and private debt. annual target, pushed total assets at the biggest US public pension fund to $502.9 Calpers said that public equity investments led the way among asset classes with an estimated 17.5%

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