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Carlyle sells Cogentrix Energy to Quantum Capital in $3bn deal

Private Equity Wire

Carlyle initially acquired Cogentrix from Goldman Sachs in 2012 for an undisclosed sum and has since doubled the company’s assets by purchasing new power plants and expanding its operations. We will continue to be very active in those areas through our existing portfolio companies, as well as new investments that we make.”

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Quadria Capital Raises $500m for Third Healthcare Fund

Private Equity Insights

It had received commitments from both existing and new investors that include institutional investors, insurance and pension funds, development finance institutions and family offices across the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific, it said. IFC committed about $40m to the new fund, with a co-investment sleeve of up to $30m.

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Private Equity's Creative Wizardry Posing Systemic Risk?

Pension Pulse

A broader worry is that while buyers’ hunger may be back for higher-quality companies, as shown by the uptick in investment-banking activity on Wall Street, the books of PE firms are stuffed with less attractive businesses snapped up at inflated prices. Some investors don’t want firms using such tools to flatter returns.

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Are Insurance Companies Safe?

Tucker Advisors

Shortly after The Great Recession began unraveling in 2008, many people feared insurance companies would suffer the same fate as investment banks like Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns, Wachovia and Washington Mutual. After all, no one could have predicted those banks would fail, either. Forbes; June 1, 2012 [link].

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Best Caisse Scenario?

Pension Pulse

It’s late April, and Emond is appearing at a hearing at Quebec’s National Assembly, where parliamentarians are zeroing in on a perceived dilution of the share of assets the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec has invested at home, from 26.1% CPP Investments, meanwhile—Canada’s largest pension investor, with the Caisse at No.

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Transcript: Jawad Mian

The Big Picture

And so for the longest time, I actually thought that my unconventional background, I wasn’t an Ivy League student, I didn’t train at an investment bank, I wasn’t working for a hedge fund, I started my career as a bank teller. In 2012 Facebook went public, the IPO flopped. RITHOLTZ: Yes.

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Transcript: Aswath Damodaran

The Big Picture

And then in 2012, I think Berkshire Hathaway initiated its buybacks with a cap, which is, you know, that they will do buybacks as long as the price was less than intrinsic value. DAMODARAN: Or it could be some unique characteristic, pension funds pay no taxes. RITHOLTZ: He was not a fan. DAMODARAN: He was a big dividend person.

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