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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

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Last August, I passed the point at which I had spent literally half my entire life working in this asset class, having started at the General Motors pension fund doing institutional investments in venture funds and late-stage directs back in February of 2001. It has been a career that fits my personality well.

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Mark Wiseman on Why Politicians Should Leave Pension Funds Alone

Pension Pulse

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. This has culminated in an announcement from Ottawa to explore ways to have pension funds invest more domestically. This outperformance aggregated to $4.2-billion

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Are Pension Funds Fiddling With Another CLO Time Bomb?

Pension Pulse

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. billion in assets, said the attraction of low default rates for leveraged loans, estimated at 1.5%-2%

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New Mountain Capital Announces $825 Million Net Lease Real Estate Fund

Private Equity Insights

Investors in the Fund, which were a mix of numerous new investors as well as existing New Mountain Net Lease investors, include pension funds, insurance companies, asset managers, endowments, family offices and high net worth individuals. Since inception, New Mountain’s net lease strategy has completed $1.9

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Five Questions for Vetting an Investment in a New or Emerging VC Fund

This is going to be BIG.

While most of the money that goes into VC funds comes from institutions that are highly experienced in the asset class, some family offices and high net worth individuals also invest in VC. They’re trying to get exposure and diversification at the same time, while potentially seeing co-investment deal flow.

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Bain Capital’s Harrington Takeover: OHA and BMO Pave the Way with $1bn Financing

Private Equity Insights

OHA sourced this transaction through its strategic direct lending partnership with BMO Capital Markets (“BMO”), which includes over $1bn to invest in jointly originated senior secured private credit assets.

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CDPQ Struggling to Deploy $7 Billion For Energy Transition?

Pension Pulse

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 The other thing that is tricky is what exactly constitutes energy transition assets?