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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Pension Pulse

JULY 10, 2024

Private equity firms are already positioning to take advantage. Compared with the Savings & Loans crisis and 2008, we’re still in the first or second innings” when it comes to troubled assets, said Rebel Cole, a finance professor at Florida Atlantic University who also advises Oaktree Capital Management.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Regulators are pushing private equity firms to do a better job when it comes to valuing their assets. Carolina Mandl and Chris Prentice of Reuters report US SEC overhauls rules for $20 trillion private fund industry: The U.S. million Norweigans benefit from the Government Pension Fund.

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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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Pension Pulse

MAY 23, 2024

But what’s even more relevant, he says, is that with $88 billion now invested in a province with a GDP of nearly $500 billion, “the Caisse is the pension fund that is the most invested, in the world, in its local economy.” More than ever, Canada’s largest pension funds are being pressed to play the same role in the rest of the country.

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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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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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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 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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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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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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