Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The 20-year successor fund aims to contribute to increasing the resilience of the region with a focus on renewable energy generation, energy demand reduction, and social as well as transport infrastructure investments in the Baltics and Poland. The fund is an Article 9 fund under the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation.

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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. Five seed assets have already been executed, with a total value representing circa, including capital deployment in the renewable space providing €125m of financing for an Italian solar IPP platform.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 18, 2024

baby boomers are a generation that's shaped society at every turn, and their personal finance habits are no different. This shift is revolutionizing how boomers manage their finances, making it easier to keep tabs on investments and spending in real time. Image source: Getty Images With 76.4 million individuals in the U.S., of all U.S.

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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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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a statement on Sunday, the retailer said it had reviewed the unsolicited offer, but found that Arkhouse and Brigade had not provided sufficient information to address its concerns around their ability to finance the proposed transaction. Source: Yahoo Finance Can’t stop reading? billion) in assets have. trillion ($965.47

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Allegro Funds as it acquired fuel retailer Gull New Zealand; and BGH Capital’s payments platform Pushpay, the firm said. Financing of leverage buyouts in Australia and New Zealand has typically been done through banks due to the lack of an institutional capital market for high-yield borrowers. and Citigroup Inc. has raised A$2.6

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 19, 2024

The board of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (Calpers), the largest US pension fund, is has voted to up its exposure to private equity and private credit by a combined $34bn in a bet that riskier asset classes will generate higher returns than stocks, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“The federal government believes that continued domestic investments by Canada’s pension funds have the potential to boost Canada’s economy and create good careers for people across the country.” The statement said government would work with pensions to find and encourage more investments in Canada.

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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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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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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Two of Australia’s largest pension investors pledged to pour $19bn into UK and European markets in coming years, as the industry increasingly looks for opportunities overseas. trillion pension industry, known locally as superannuation, which has increased assets invested overseas in recent years. Source: Yahoo!

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 8, 2024

Goldman Sachs Asset Management closed its purchase of Norwegian e-learning platform Kahoot! ASA in January with funding from Denmark’s Kirk Kristiansen dynasty, the owners of Lego Group. Source: Yahoo Finance Can’t stop reading? Darren Allaway, a London-based managing director in Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s

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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”). billion of assets under management. billion of assets on behalf of our clients.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 5, 2024

In the past 10 years, the total value of the cryptocurrency asset class has grown significantly from around $12 billion to almost $1.7 Throughout this evolution, one asset has risen to become the epitome of a cryptocurrency and is unequivocally the most robust, resilient, and valuable asset on the market today. trillion today.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 14, 2023

IRA Capital, a private equity firm based in Southern California, has recently announced the launch of the IRA Healthcare Real Estate Fund. The closed-end fund, with a total capitalization of $500m, will focus on acquiring medical properties and senior housing assets across the United States. for its investors.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Star Mountain Capital, LLC (Star Mountain), a private credit and secondaries specialist investment firm with approximately $3.75bn in assets under management, has closed its Value-Added Direct Lending Fund IV above its $750m LP capital target at approximately $1.2bn.

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Private Equity Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

Orion Resource Partners, a global investment firm specialising in metals and materials, has sold an 8% minority interest in Sweetwater Royalties, a private industrial minerals royalty company, to a Canadian pension fund for $100m.

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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. The fund’s CEO Nathalie Palladitcheff acknowledged the troubles facing offices in an interview in October with CNBC , where she announced the company was opening an office in New York to be close to its biggest cases.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Fund VI, which is the largest fund dedicated to investing across the food and agribusiness value chain, attracted a diverse array of real asset, private equity and impact-oriented investors, including pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments/foundations, family offices and other investors.

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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”). billion of assets under management. billion of assets on behalf of our clients.

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

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Pension Pulse

MAY 13, 2024

Bob Baldwin wrote an op-ed for the Globe and Mail stating a proposal to encourage more pension fund investing at home is wrong for Canada: Last month’s budget unveiled a working group led by former Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz to collaborate with pension fund leaders to encourage funds to invest more of their assets in Canada.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 9, 2024

Orion Resource Partners, a global investment firm specialising in metals and materials, has sold an 8% minority interest in Sweetwater Royalties, a private industrial minerals royalty company, to a Canadian pension fund for $100m.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It had received commitments from both existing and new investors that include institutional investors, insurance and pension funds, development finance institutions and family offices across the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific, it said. IFC committed about $40m to the new fund, with a co-investment sleeve of up to $30m.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Equita Kairos Partners SGR SpA Finance for Food NORD Holding UBG mbH IBLA CAPITAL Investment Company Progressio SGR DLVENTURES Indaco Venture Partners SGR Vitale Dualcore S.R.L. International Finance Corporation INVESTMENT PARTNERS Safra Sarasin JP Morgan LTM Family Office MidEuropa Morphosis Capital Nordea PFR PFR S.A.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2024

You’d never know it to read the latest annual report from the fund’s managers, the CPP Investment Board, which spends much of its nearly 80,000 words boasting how, thanks to the herculean efforts of its employees and the sophisticated investment stratagems of its managers, it eked out an 8-per-cent return on investment for the CPP’s beneficiaries.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 7, 2023

It comprises 17 African shareholders—including sovereign wealth funds, development finance institutions, banks, pension funds, asset managers, and retirement agencies—and two international Institutional Investors. Other entities are expected to join this first transaction. Source: AFDB Can’t stop reading?

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 6, 2023

times, it has the strongest finances of any of its closest peers. Essentially, during the lean times, it can take on debt to keep funding its business and dividend while it waits for better days. While driven by long-term contracts, contracted renewable power assets aren't as reliable as regulated assets.

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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. Elizabeth Burton : Hi Barry.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 27, 2023

Ardian raises over $20bn for secondaries fund the Paris-based PE firm has set a target for the fund of $25bn French group Ardian has amassed more than $20bn to buy stakes in private equity funds from investors, highlighting a corner of finance that is defying the broader slump in fundraising.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 21, 2024

had filed annual financial statements that show it marked down the value of its assets from £700-million ($1.2-billion) OMERS is one of Canada’s largest pension fund managers, overseeing $129-billion of assets with investments in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. BCI manages $233-billion in assets.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 18, 2024

When you see trillions of dollars in assets, when you see a government that is running deficits, when you see economic malaise – and we’ve seen this in other jurisdictions –this is the time when pension assets get raided. “The Canadian model is under threat today,” Wiseman said. To me, that’s sort of an attack on legitimacy.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 1, 2024

return in its fiscal year 2024, a period ending June 30, the fund announced on Tuesday. Like most other funds this year, that return was boosted by strong public equities returns, for CalSTRS, that asset class returned 19%. “A This asset class returned 14.4% The fund reported an asset allocation of $41.4%

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The Big Picture

MARCH 3, 2023

Institutional Investor ) • Are Defined Benefit Pension Funds Still Useful Recruiting, Retention Tools? Essential to public sector employees, a pension fund is a forgotten benefit for most workers in the private sector. And it’s not just Reddit — digital media from newsletters to TikTok are also playing a role.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The fund will continue Kreos’ investment strategy of providing loans to high-growth companies across EMEA, with a particular focus on the Technology and Healthcare sectors.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 11, 2024

(KKR) and includes notable members such as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), the Italian infrastructure fund F2i, and the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Italian Government. billion in late 2023.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 10, 2024

Neil Callanan of Bloomberg reports distressed commercial property buyers see ‘exceptional bargains’: Distressed investors see one of the best opportunities in a generation to buy troubled US real estate assets as the commercial property crash continues to roil the market. Private equity firms are already positioning to take advantage.

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