The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But if I had a plan as to how to do that when I went to college, it was learn as much as I could, as fast as I could and get a ba and then become an accountant and a lawyer. But there came to be, in certain situations, buyers that were bootstrap, buyers that were, we would call ’em today, they then leveraged buyout financiers.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Europe accounts for anywhere between a third and a half of their investments. But because these are really good businesses, which got levered, they got leveraged through these leverage buyouts. Early nineties was the start of the modern high yield leverage buyout business done at scale. And still growing.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Fund, which includes the combination of the base CPP and additional CPP accounts, achieved a 10-year annualized net return of 9.6%. For the quarter, the Fund’s net return was 0.1%. The base CPP account’s net return for the quarter was 0.2%, and the five-year annualized net return was 7.3%.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 25, 2025

Changing investment approach amid market challenges Ontario Teachers shift comes as Canadas largest pension funds, known as the Maple Eight, are reconsidering their investment strategies. These funds collectively manage about $2.3 You dial back the risk by doing it with a partner rather than doing it on your own, he said.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 11, 2025

The private credit sector, a $1.5tn industry that includes specialised lenders like Apollo Global Management, Ares Management, and KKR, has long been a popular asset class for institutional investors, including pension funds.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 3, 2025

Ralph Berg, chief investment officer at OMERS for nearly two years, brings a fresh perspective to pension fund management with a history and work pedigree different to what you might expect from a Canadian fund investment boss. We are starting to see LBO [leveraged buyout] activity pick up again.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

Pension funds, perhaps, maybe aren’t growing as much as they need them to. RITHOLTZ: Clearly, 401(k) is not a much faster growing part of the allocation landscape than either direct benefits or pensions, if anything, that side of the street is shrinking dramatically. And so, this is a ripe market for them.

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