Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The New York State Teachers Retirement System (NYSTRS) committed $400m (£315.55m) to private debt funds between October and December last year. The pension fund allocated $300m to the OIC Credit Opportunities IV fund, while the remaining $100m was committed to the Peninsula VIII, according to publicly available documents.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Mubadala Investment Company , Abu Dhabi’s sovereign investment arm, has formed a strategic partnership with New York-based alternative asset manager Blue Owl Capital as it seeks to co-invest in private credit opportunities amid a tightening monetary environment around the world.

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AltAssets

DECEMBER 13, 2023

AustralianSuper, the country’s biggest pension fund, has upped its exposure to private debt for US mid-market companies by $1.5bn through an expanded partnership with Nuveen investment arm Churchill Asset Management.

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Private Equity Professional

MARCH 21, 2024

Equity and debt investor Comvest Partners has closed its sixth flagship private equity fund, Comvest Investment Partners VI LP, with total capital commitments of $881 million. Like its earlier funds, Fund VI will… This content is for members only.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 17, 2023

Boston-based CrossHarbor aims to deploy the new funds into high-yield debt and equity investment opportunities across all US property types. Read more CrossHarbor Exceeds Target with $865M Close of 10th Opportunity Fund CrossHarbor Capital Partners, a multi-strategy commercial real estate investor, closed its tenth.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

It has vaulted to the top rungs of the alternative-asset management world by focusing on what it does best: private credit. Yet, like its peers, Ares feels compelled to diversify into other asset classes, such as real estate, infrastructure, and private equity. Apollo Global Management, and KKR. billion last year.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Graf remains cautiously optimistic about the deal pipeline, despite the difficulties encountered by firms including Silver Lake and Brookfield Asset Management last year in completing transactions. The new fund comprises around A$850 million from investors and the balance in loans from Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. billion ($1.7

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

But the deal is also a gamble, considering investors have worried about BCE’s ability to afford its dividend and pay down debt. The integration matters because investors tend to judge the riskiness of a company’s debt load by comparing it to annual cash flows: “This is a great trade, in sports terms,” Mr. Bibic said.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 14, 2024

Pension plans and insurers have been piling into funds that invest in equity tranches of collateralized loan obligations in recent months, according to several asset managers who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Some money managers have exceeded expectations, helping stoke such interest in the product.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A General Atlantic IPO would test investor sentiment toward alternative asset managers as the industry grapples with the end of the era of cheap debt that fueled easy dealmaking.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 3, 2025

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 1, 2024

Global alternative asset manager Ares Management Corporation, has closed its latest private credit fund at $34bn, making its the largest private credit fund ever raised, and reflecting a of high level investor demand for the asset class.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 4, 2023

Canada’s OMERS and Dutch pension investor APG have agreed to buy Netherlands-based energy infrastructure solutions firm Kenter, according to a draft announcement of the deal seen by Reuters and confirmed by the purchasers. OMERS, which has C$124.2 billion ($93.67

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 29, 2024

LS Power Group (LS Power), an investment manager focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector, has closed its latest fund, LS Power Equity Partners V, with total commitments of approximately $2.7bn, exceeding its $2.5 Fund V will invest in power and energy infrastructure assets, platforms, and companies.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 6, 2023

With a debt-to-equity ratio of roughly 0.12 Essentially, during the lean times, it can take on debt to keep funding its business and dividend while it waits for better days. was created so that entities unable to invest in partnerships (like pension funds) could invest, broadening Brookfield Renewable's access to capital.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Entangled Capital SGR Dea Capital Alternative Funds SGR IBLA Capital Generali Investments Europe S.p.A. Italian Association of Private Equity, Venture Capital and Private Debt Sella Venture Partners SGR Investitori SGR HOPE S.B. SGR Alchimia Investments Sagard Equity Partners STYLE CAPITAL SGR S.p.A. Castik Capital Partners GmbH Inovo.vc

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management , is below. Elizabeth Burton is Goldman Sachs asset management’s client investment strategist. Previously she was Chief Investment Officer at various state pension funds, including Maryland and Hawaii. Right, right.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

trillion of assets under management supporting defined benefit and defined contribution plans, PGIM serves more than half of the world's 300 largest pension funds. These inflows reflect the net benefit from large episodic institutional pension plan activity. As a market leader with nearly $0.5

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 19, 2025

Arcmont Asset Management has secured mandates totalling 475m for a new Impact Lending strategy from pension asset manager APG, and TIAA, one of the worlds largest institutional investors and a provider of retirement and financial services. Arcmont is owned by Nuveen Private Capital (NPC).

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Sinding also highlighted the importance of adding capabilities in secondaries, noting that it would strengthen EQT’s offerings at both the fund and portfolio levels. Unlike peers such as Apollo Global, EQT has avoided aggressive moves into credit investments, having exited its debt platform in 2020.

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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. billion as at Q3 FY2025: Highlights: Net assets increase by $24.5

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 30, 2024

Leading investors in the recap included a Stonepeak managed vehicle anchored by Mercer and Aware Super, and direct investments from the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (“IMCO”) and APG Asset Management (“APG”).

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 30, 2024

Leading investors in the recap included a Stonepeak managed vehicle anchored by Mercer and Aware Super, and direct investments from the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (“IMCO”) and APG Asset Management (“APG”).

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Pension Pulse

JULY 16, 2024

A higher cost of debt and slower economic growth have created a tough investing environment, pushing down the value of some private assets that pension funds own. Private credit has been one of the best-performing asset classes for some large pension funds in recent years, often earning double-digit percentage gains.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Earlier today, I spoke with Peter Letko and Daniel Brosseau of LetkoBrosseau Global Investment Management to set the record straight on where they stand on Canadian pension funds investing more in Canada. It may seem appealing to encourage pension funds to invest more of our combined funds of over $2-trillion in Canada.

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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. “Now

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Pension Pulse

MAY 8, 2024

Ishika Mookerjee and Sheryl Tian Tong Lee of Bloomberg report Quebec pension struggles to deploy $7 billion for energy transition: One of Canada’s biggest pension funds says it hasn’t been able to deploy the CAD 10 billion ($7.3 Not available on YouTube yet but you should watch this interesting discussion here.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 2023

But despite increasing concern about private equity tactics, over the past decade CPP Investments has shifted more and more of its assets into that investing category in search of high returns. If I were running a pension fund, I would be very careful about what was being offered to me. That’s why asset managers like them.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 17, 2025

The vehicle, which will acquire stakes in private equity and private credit funds from existing limited partners, underscores growing investor appetite for innovative fund finance solutions as liquidity remains constrained across private markets. The deal comes amid a broader acceleration in fund finance activity.

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JULY 14, 2023

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 17, 2024

Denitsa Tsekova of Bloomberg reports a $300 billion pension fund leads big-money charge back to bonds: When Christopher Ailman became the chief investment officer of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System back in 2000, one of every four dollars it oversaw was invested in government, corporate and mortgage debt.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Top multi-strategy, event driven hedge funds and large hedge fund managers As the name implies, these hedge funds invest across a wide variety of hedge fund strategies like L/S Equity, L/S credit, global macro, convertible arbitrage, risk arbitrage, volatility arbitrage, merger arbitrage, distressed debt and statistical pair trading.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 31, 2024

billion, delivers customized and multi-asset solutions across public and private markets to clients in North America, Europe and Asia Fiera Capital stock has added 25.38 billion, delivers customized and multi-asset solutions across public and private markets to clients in North America, Europe and Asia Fiera Capital stock has added 25.38

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

China aims to raise another 1 trillion yuan via a separate special debt issuance to help local governments tackle their debt problems. Most of China's fiscal stimulus still goes into investment, but returns are dwindling and the spending has saddled local governments with $13 trillion in debt.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 17, 2024

among technology exits Michael Burry’s Scion Asset Management LLC exited positions in Oracle Corp. of its assets. Market neutral funds will engage in pair trading to remove market beta. Some are large asset managers that specialize in factor investing. Two Sigma Advisers LP tacked on Walmart Inc.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 10, 2024

Almost $1 trillion of debt linked to commercial real estate will mature this year in the US, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association, and rising defaults as borrowers fail to repay will create more options for buyers of distressed assets. More regional bank failures are likely because of their property debt, according to Pimco.

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