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 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

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 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 Wire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

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

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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

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

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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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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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

JANUARY 30, 2024

The fund returned to profit last year, gaining 16.1%, equivalent to about $213 billion, according to a statement on Tuesday. It fell below its benchmark by 18 basis points, having recorded the previous miss in 2018. Its returns are highly dependent on market movements.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

He went on to become Managing Director and Global Head of Principal Credit Investments in 2015 and was subsequently appointed Senior Managing Director & Global Head of Credit Investments in 2018. In February 2021, he was appointed President & CEO of CPP Investments.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Over the course of 2018 to 2022, the US imposed significant tariffs on Chinese exports to the US. There's been a lot of discussion lately on why Maple 8 pension funds do not invest more in Canada, specifically in Canadian equities. The US withdrew from the TransPacific Partnership in 2017.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

AustOn is the Australian agriculture arm of Ontario Teachers’ and has operated in Australia since 2018. AustOn is the Australian agriculture arm of Ontario Teachers’ and has operated in Australia since 2018. That ensures alignment of interests.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Founded in 2018, Chinook Forest Partners consists of professionals experienced in forestland and natural capital investments, with a network of landowners, forest product manufacturers, and external partners across the US. Great deal with Brookfield and an amazing partner in Engie to take this asset to the next level.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Previously she was Chief Investment Officer at various state pension funds, including Maryland and Hawaii. So you end up going from the fund of funds to pension funds. I had a a two brief jobs between the, the fund of funds in Maryland and business school in between there. Absolutely.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

You may remember Amor Towles, his book A Gentleman in Moscow who joined me for authors in August in 2018. Their structures are built by their customers who are the limited partners by and large mostly its pension funds. It's not actually created by the private equity firms, it's created upstream by the pension funds.

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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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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We have institutional clients, we have retail clients, we have, you know, pension funds, we have endowments. A term that we sort of invented in 2018, which I regret now. So I would say the challenge of having those roles is that our institutional clients are much shorter term. So that, that’s the challenge.

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Private Equity Wire

MAY 13, 2024

In Europe, regulations limit how much insurers and pension funds can allocate to these higher-risk strategies, resulting in historically low direct participation, according to Dan Robinson, Head of Alternative Credit for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at Deutsche Bank’s asset-management arm DWS Group.

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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2023

You know, if you’re a CIO of a pension fund, you’re always thinking about your employees and your portfolio and the plan sponsors. It was, you know, I held this conference in 2018 in the desert and I was trying to think of a way to give a thoughtful gift and this idea came about.

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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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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 26, 2024

Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up The fund, which has so far backed five businesses and expects to add another 50 to its roster, attracted commitments from endowments, foundations, pension funds, family offices and HNWIs. trillion ($965.47

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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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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

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 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

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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

A gauge of Chinese stocks in Hong Kong climbed 3%, notching its longest winning streak since 2018. By 2039, they would have to clock 20 years of contributions to access their pensions. “Based on historical valuation, we think Chinese stocks have another 20% runway to go.” The ChiNext index, a tech-heavy gauge, rose a record 10%.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 16, 2024

Transitioning his hedge fund into a family office in 2018, Cooperman's investment approach skillfully blends macroeconomic perspectives with rigorous fundamental valuation, focusing keenly on market valuations without attempting to predict market directions. 24) Norges Bank 25) Nordea Investment Management 26) Korea Investment Corp.

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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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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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