Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

European private equity investment firm Castik Capital has held the final close of its third fund, EPIC III, with total capital commitments of €2bnm exceeding its target of €1.75bn. The fund is 60% larger than predecessor EPIC II, which closed at €1.25bn in October 2020.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 17, 2023

The 77-year-old billionaire told the Financial Times that big asset managers had competed aggressively to lend to the largest private equity groups as money poured into their coffers in 2020 and 2021, raising questions over the due diligence the funds conducted when they agreed to provide multibillion-dollar loans.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 2, 2024

This includes robust sales in pension risk and longevity risk transfer, as well as nearly doubling our individual annuity sales. Since the launch of our FlexGuard indexed variable annuity product suite in 2020, our sales have exceeded $21 billion. pension plans, and is the largest pension fund manager in Japan.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 25, 2023

As majority shareholder since 2020, we are proud of the work we have accomplished in supporting the rapid growth of the company and believe the successful closing of this strategic investment speaks to Corsair’s unique ability to operate and execute within highly regulated industries.”

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) started allocating to insurance-linked securities (ILS), largely via insurance-linked funds, as well as some direct investments into other reinsurance-related securities, in late 2019. 2022 saw further growth in the ILS allocation at a time when HOOPP’s overall net assets shrank somewhat.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 7, 2024

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP is acting as legal advisor to ALLETE. In addition, we formed ALLETE Clean Energy eight years ago, and that company now operates in nine states and will have more than 1,000 megawatts of wind energy in its portfolio by the end of 2020. also provided a fairness opinion to ALLETE.

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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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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association predicts that alternatives will contribute 50% of industry revenue in the coming years, despite comprising just 12% of the $153 trillion global investable market in 2020. The information provided in these materials does not constitute any legal, tax or accounting advice.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association predicts that alternatives will contribute 50% of industry revenue in the coming years, despite comprising just 12% of the $153 trillion global investable market in 2020. The information provided in these materials does not constitute any legal, tax or accounting advice.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: But market returns across — RITHOLTZ: The past decade, 2010 to 2020, we were what? And then it’s actually hard to make a legal bet. So technically, and that’s probably why it was legal, there’s no gambling involved. RITHOLTZ: Oh no, it’s much worse. SEIDES: It’s lower. 14, 15% a year?

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Sara Grillo

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Research shows that ESG comes with higher fees, so much so that it may be better to take fee savings and donate it to a charity that has impact than actually invest in an ESG fund and pay the higher fees. From a Wall Street Journal Article: The environmental, social, and governance funds’ average fee was 0.2%

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In recent years, globalization has waned, and geopolitical tensions and risk have risen: The United Kingdom withdrew from the European Union in 2020. the ability to leverage centralized risk, legal, HR, IT, back and middle office capabilities), relevant sectoral expertise, the ability to leverage scale (e.g.,

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

But in some ways, those events, and we saw it again in March of 2020, we saw it again around where you see these big moments where it draws people together. So what I mean by that is, first, understand the duration of your funding source. Pension funds have quite long-dated capital. So it was certainly stressful.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Silas Brown and Kat Hidalgo of Bloomberg report Florida pension to offload up to $4 billion of private credit: The Florida State Board of Administration is looking to sell a bundle of private credit stakes worth as much as $4 billion in what would be one of the largest deals of its kind, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 4, 2023

The company is still in talks with its shareholders about raising as much as £1 billion in fresh funds following a £500 million injection agreed last year. Its largest shareholder is Canadian pension fund Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (Omers), which holds a nearly 32 per cent stake. billion in Canadian funds.

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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2023

MIAN: Starting now, so from the 2020 to 2030, just like software was from 2010 to 2020, from 2020 to 2030, the zeitgeist is climate. Legal immigration has been trending lower since the Gulf War in 2003. RITHOLTZ: Is that an investable thesis? Is that something people can put money into? RITHOLTZ: Nobody.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Which is run by many insurance companies, pension funds who use Aladdin, and it’s a commercial enterprise for the firm. Didn’t it start as a bond shop, catering to pension funds and foundations? I mean, it started as largely mortgages, fixed income bonds shop, and you know, create a closed end funds.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 31, 2025

The fund was oversubscribed and represents a more than 50% increase on QPEs debut fund, which raised 202m in December 2020. From its first fund, QPE completed 12 platform investments and 16 follow-on deals. QPEs internal team and its Ambassador Network contributed 30m, accounting for around 10% of total commitments.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2024

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

officials allege: Senior executives at Quebec’s provincial pension fund manager tried to win contracts by paying Indian officials hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes and interfered with corruption investigations in the United States, American prosecutors allege. Cabanes and Malhotra sat on the board of Azure Power Global Ltd.,

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The decision to put a senior government official on the board of the arm’s-length pension fund manager raises questions about AIMCo’s continued independence, and whether the move opens the door to the government to exert greater political influence or to steer the pension fund manager toward government priorities.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 13, 2024

That's good news for cryptocurrencies such as XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) , which has been involved in an epic legal battle with the SEC since December 2020. Large institutional investors (such as pension funds and hedge funds) are now investing in these ETFs as the easiest way to gain exposure to Bitcoin.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Nicolas Van Praet of the Globe and Mail reports pension giant Caisse strikes deal to acquire Innergex Renewable Energy: Canadian pension fund giant Caisse de dpt et placement du Qubec has struck a deal to buy Innergex Renewable Energy Inc. The Caisse will pay $13.75 So this is a cash flow base that will be stable over time.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

AIMCo), citing a need “to restore confidence” in the provincial pension fund manager. T hose returns are comparable to the rates of return earned by several other large Canadian pension funds. He said AIMCo’s clients were not informed in advance of the changes, citing legal considerations. million to $222.3

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

00:21:10 And so we started an advisory group of people, you know, hedge funds, pension funds, insurance companies, you know, buy side investors. We’ve reduced legal immigration for, for jobs dramatically. I mean, so essentially we didn’t have much legal immigration at all during the covid period, right?

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The Big Picture

JULY 22, 2024

So yeah, it’s a broad swath of clients that we cover from pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, retail, you name it. So you know, when the world thought rates would rise, we were like, no rates are here to stay 00:16:34 [Speaker Changed] Last decade 00:16:35 [Speaker Changed] On the, yeah, before 2020.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 7, 2025

The remaining shares of Colonial are owned by Koch (28.1%), KKR (23.4%), Canadian pension fund Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec (16.5%), and IFM Investors Pty (15.8%). Brookfields financial advisors were Jefferies, Greenhill & Co, and Morgan Stanley, while Kirkland & Ellis served as the legal advisor.

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