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How OMERS CIO Ralph Berg Refocused The Investment Programs

Pension Pulse

After nearly 20 years in investment banking, at Deutsche Bank and then Credit Suisse, in 2013 he moved to Borealis, OMERS infrastructure arm, to run infrastructure globally and then head the capital markets team. We are starting to see LBO [leveraged buyout] activity pick up again. billion ($97.2

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Transcript: Sunaina Sinha, Global Head of Private Capital with Raymond James

The Big Picture

Leverage buyouts requires leverage. And when rates were so low, the leverage went, it was cheap and, and and easily accessible. 00:41:54 [Speaker Changed] That was in an Asian manager in 2013. And, and then what does it mean now that rates are, you know, appreciably higher than they, they were in the 2010s.

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Transcript: William Cohan

The Big Picture

So, I graduated from business school in 1987 and went to GE Capital for two years, financing leveraged buyouts. I mean, you know, I probably shouldn’t have been doing it because I had been a journalist covering public schools and knew nothing about leveraged buyouts. And I actually started out of business school.

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