Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Sterling, who founded the group in 2018, now oversees a portfolio exceeding $4bn across more than 50 portfolio companies. The fund attracted a diverse global investor base, including public and private pension funds, insurance companies, foundations, and RIAs from the US, Canada, the Middle East, and East Asia.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The system works exceptionally well, yet in the past year, we have seen increasing calls to change this model and use pension funds as a policy tool. The system works exceptionally well, yet in the past year, we have seen increasing calls to change this model and use pension funds as a policy tool.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

BC Partners first invested in Forno d’Asolo in 2018. Billion for Australia Private Credit Fund Ares Management Corp. billion) for a credit fund for Australia and. read more Dutch Pension Fund Divests $3B from Fossil Fuel Firms Dutch pension fund PFZW has completed a $3.02 Read more Ares Raises $1.7

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Pension Pulse

MAY 14, 2024

While investors have typically included other hedge funds, family offices and sovereign wealth funds, the prospect of higher yields is now luring more money that’s been traditionally risk-averse. Pension inflows into CLO equity, for which no public estimates are available due to the opaque nature of the strategy, aren’t entirely new.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Willis Towers Watson put out a press release stating the world’s top pension funds see the largest assets fall in 20 years: North America now accounts for nearly half of assets in world’s 300 largest pension funds ARLINGTON, Va., increase in the assets of the largest 300 pension funds in the previous year.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 29, 2024

The vehicle, which attracted support from astate and county pension funds, corporate pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations and insurance companies, allows KSL to return capital to LPs.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

The asset could attract investment funds and pension funds, the people said. Established by I Squared in 2018, Think Gas operates across 13 districts in India and supplies natural gas to domestic, commercial, industrial and automotive sectors, according to its website.

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Private Equity Wire

MAY 30, 2024

Private investment house Ardian has raised €530m for Ardian Growth Fund III, exceeding its €500m target size and raising more than double than the firm’s previous fund, which closed in 2018 at €230m.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The Enhanced Return Debt Fund (ERDF) has received significant seed capital from Generali Group and strong support from recurring investors. Since its inception in 2018, Infranity has built a strong track record in sustainable infrastructure debt investments, closing almost 100 investments in excess of circa €9bn.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

Platinum Equity is targeting a fundraise of $1.75bn for its second small-cap fund, Platinum Equity Small Cap Fund II, which was unveiled last year, according to a report by BuyoutsInsider.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

net new jobs in 2021, compared to 1.2% growth for all European companies.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Radio silence at the Caisse Since the opening of its office in New Delhi in 2016, the Fund has bet 9 billion on India. Its three former executives accused of corruption were all employees of the Quebec institution in this region of the globe between 2018 and 2023. How many investment cases have they been involved in?

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 22, 2024

MMC 22, Bain Capital Credit’s fourth fund in its private credit strategy, is intended to provide flexible, junior debt to middle market companies with EBITDA between $25m to $75m, located across the US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The firm’s predecessor fund, Bain Capital Middle Market Credit 2018, closed with $975m in 2019.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 7, 2023

.” Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up Revelstoke has raised three flagship private equity funds, three single-asset continuation vehicles under the EPIC series, and numerous co-investment vehicles since its inception in 2013. Since 2018, the firm has raised $3.7

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 30, 2024

We’ve had a fantastic partnership with Stonepeak and IMCO since 2018 along with our other investors, and we extend our gratitude to them for their unwavering support.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 30, 2024

We’ve had a fantastic partnership with Stonepeak and IMCO since 2018 along with our other investors, and we extend our gratitude to them for their unwavering support.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Allianz Global Investors and Dutch development bank FMO have agreed one of the largest “blended finance” funds on record, raising $1.1bn to invest in loans that help emerging and frontier countries meet sustainable development targets.

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Private Equity Professional

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Additionally, the firm raised $1 billion in commitments for co-investment vehicles dedicated to investing alongside Fund X. We are excited to construct a Fund X portfolio that builds upon our legacy of successful business transformation and value creation.” In March 2018, Blackstone acquired a minority equity interest in the firm.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 17, 2025

Bloomberg reports OMERS hires partner of Temasek-backed fund as Global Head of Private Equity: The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System hired Alexander Fraser, a former partner of a Temasek-backed fund, as the global head of its private equity arm.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2023

WPGG 14 is the largest-ever fundraise in the firm’s 57-year history, exceeding the previous global flagship fund, Warburg Pincus Global Growth, which closed on $15bn in 2018.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

Question is: Can it become a one-stop shop for pension funds, endowments, insurers, and sovereign wealth funds eager for exposure to every major alternative-asset class — without diminishing its private credit franchise? Since 2018, profits have compounded at an annual 35 percent clip, exceeding $1.1 billion last year.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Layan Odeh of Bloomberg reports CPPIB plows at least $5 billion into private equity in three months: Canada Pension Plan Investment Board poured at least $5 billion into private equity in the last three months of 2024 as the asset class regained appeal. In Q3, the Fund earned one of its largest ever quarterly increases on a dollar basis.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 10, 2024

Lauren Sforza of The Hill reports major pension fund will vote against Elon Musk pay package: The chief of a major pension fund said Monday he will vote against Elon Musk’s pay package later this week. The vote, slated to be held this week, would reinstate the 2018 pay package struck down by the judge.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 22, 2024

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports PSP chief investment officer Eduard van Gelderen to leave pension fund after 6 years: Public Sector Pension Investment Board chief investment officer Eduard van Gelderen is leaving the $265-billion fund after six years in the job. billion) pension fund.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Nest, the UK government-backed workplace pension fund, said it preferred proven business models to early-stage venture capital. Huge pension funds in Canada and Australia have been held out as examples that UK schemes could follow to improve returns. of the fund's assets were invested in listed stocks, 27.1%

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Pension Pulse

MAY 13, 2024

Bob Baldwin wrote an op-ed for the Globe and Mail stating a proposal to encourage more pension fund investing at home is wrong for Canada: Last month’s budget unveiled a working group led by former Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz to collaborate with pension fund leaders to encourage funds to invest more of their assets in Canada.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Over the last decade, the real estate arm of Quebec’s $300 billion pension fund tore through U.S. It was acquired in 1990 by Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec — Canada’s second-largest pension fund. Ivanhoé Cambridge bought Callahan in 2018 for an undisclosed amount. The Caisse pension fund reported a -6.2

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Pension Pulse

MAY 2, 2024

Last year, APFC’s staff decreased its private asset allocation from 19 percent to 15 percent, hypothesizing that there were better risk-adjusted returns to be had in asset classes like fixed income and hedge funds. This strategy has also given Frampton’s team the flexibility to get into some incredibly competitive investment funds.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 20, 2024

It's not their shares that are going to get their directors to the board if a court agrees and reopens the nominating process, it'll be a bunch of other institutions, pension funds, big money managers that look at what Starboard is saying and say, you know what? You've studied CEO pay. What was your reaction to seeing that go through?

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Gillian Tan, Swetha Gopinath and Layan Odeh of Bloomberg report OMERS to stop making direct private equity investments in Europe: The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System will stop making direct private equity investments in Europe as the pension fund overhauls its operations there, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 19, 2023

Commitments came from a diverse group of institutional investors, including endowment funds, pension funds, insurance companies and large family offices, as well as entrepreneurs. More than 40% of commitments came from institutional investors in the US.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2024

It is not monolithic and includes such varied enterprises as pension fund investment managers such as AIMCo , insurance companies, investment banks, broker dealers, hedge funds, mortgage investment companies – and still others. The term NBFI captures a wide range of enterprises and therefore defies a common regulatory approach.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan chief investment officer to depart at the end of December: Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan chief investment officer Ziad Hindo is leaving the pension fund manager at the end of the year after five years in the role. 31 after 23 years at Teachers’.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 6, 2024

Andres Gonzales of Reuters reports Canadian pension fund OMERS, DWS to acquire Italy's group Grandi Stazioni Retail: Canadian public pension fund OMERS and DWS Group reached a deal to acquire Grandi Stazioni Retail, the two investors said on Tuesday. billion ($1.8-

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Pension Pulse

MAY 21, 2024

Consequently, no shareholders provided further funding to Thames Water and the value of OMERS Thames Water investment has now been written off,” said James Thompson, a spokesperson for OMERS Infrastructure, in an e-mailed statement Friday. OMERS then boosted its stake to current levels in 2018. BCI), owns nearly 9 per cent.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 2, 2024

Pr ior to that, the system had completed several large offloads of its PE fund portfolios, including a sale of nearly $3 billion to Ardian in early 2022 and a sale of $1.3 billion to an investor group led by Goldman Sachs in 2018. Private equity is the asset class that takes the most risk at a pension fund.

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