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Apax Partners to Take Kin + Carta Private in £203m Deal

Private Equity Insights

Originally founded in 1964, the former printing company shifted focus with the decline of that industry and rise of technology – via a series of acquisitions – and rebranded as Kin + Carta in 2018. Its share price reached a high of more than 600p in 1999 as a printing company.

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Top 25 Lower Middle Market Investment Banks | Q2 2023

Axial

.” Industries : Consumer Goods, Energy & Utilities, Technology, Industrials, Business Services, Manufacturing, Distribution, Health Care, Telecommunications, Consumer Services, Financial Services, Retail Visit FOCUS IB’s Profile “ASA Ventures Group (AVG) provides M & A representation to middle-market private companies.

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APG and Ivanhoé Cambridge Back Scape's $658M Student Housing JV in Australia

Pension Pulse

APG had backed Scape’s earlier development joint ventures, which were established in 2015 and 2018, with Ivanhoe Cambridge having committed $649 million to the company’s core strategy in 2022. Like I said, in Canada, we are behind the student housing curve, we need a private company like Scape to set up operations here.

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How CDPQ Used the Secondaries Market to Address Overallocation

Pension Pulse

Moving into 2023, he set a goal of reducing the pension’s PE allocation to 18 percent within three years, primarily by selling companies and exiting fund stakes via the secondaries market. These professionals had been trained to spot top private companies and PE funds, rather than to sell their investments.

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CDPQ's Head of PE on Vintage Year Diversification and Managing Liquidity

Pension Pulse

Moving into 2023, he set a goal of reducing the pension’s PE allocation to 18 percent within three years, primarily by selling companies and exiting fund stakes via the secondaries market. These professionals had been trained to spot top private companies and PE funds, rather than to sell their investments. percentage points.

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CDPQ Posts 7.2% Return in 2023

Pension Pulse

CDPQ's own public equities portfolio saw its performance "driven by growth stocks, as well as by large positions in Quebec companies, which performed well." The private equity portfolio was affected by interest rate hikes as well as by an increase in financing costs, which affected certain private companies.

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CDPQ's Head of Liquid Markets Discusses Mid-Year Results

Pension Pulse

In the first half of 2023, higher financing costs hurt the Caisse’s private-equity portfolio, which posted a return of 1.4 In the short term, the portfolio was constrained by higher financing costs, which influenced the performance of certain private companies,” the pension fund said. per cent, far below its benchmark of 7.2