Assets, Leveraged Buyouts and Pension Funds

Ares Raises $1.7 Billion for Australia Private Credit Fund

Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

billion) for a credit fund for Australia and New Zealand, as it seeks to capitalize on opportunities created by banks retreating from leveraged lending. The Ares Asia Direct Lending fund, the company’s first leveraged buyout vehicle for the region, has deployed over A$1.04 Ares Management Corp. has raised A$2.6

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 21, 2013

Ten years ago, I was an analyst for the General Motors pension fund, working on fund investments into leveraged buyout funds and venture capital deals. I literally wrote the investment memo for GMs investment into Accel IX, otherwise known as the "Facebook Fund." (I

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Ares Faces Its Biggest Decision Yet: Stick With Private Credit or Become an Alts Supermarket

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. The attractions of sticking with private credit are obvious.

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Are Alternative Investments the Key to Diversifying Your Portfolio?

Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Types of Alternative Investments Alternative investments are non-traditional investment options that offer diversification, unique opportunities and potential higher returns beyond conventional asset classes like stocks and bonds. between 2015 and the end of 2021. trillion in 2015 to$13.32

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Are Alternative Investments the Key to Diversifying Your Portfolio?

Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Types of Alternative Investments Alternative investments are non-traditional investment options that offer diversification, unique opportunities and potential higher returns beyond conventional asset classes like stocks and bonds. between 2015 and the end of 2021. trillion in 2015 to$13.32

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Transcript: Michael Fisch

The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They run over $27 billion in, in assets. 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. And the institutional investors often are thinking if you’re a big state pension fund, I want 10%, 20%.

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BCI Sells $1-Billion of Private Equity Holdings to Ardian

Pension Pulse

MAY 1, 2024

pension fund manager sells $1-billion of private equity holdings to French buyout firm Ardian: British Columbia Investment Management Corp. is selling more than US$1-billion of stakes in private equity funds to French buyout firm Ardian SAS, tapping the secondaries market for private assets to free up cash for new investments.

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Transcript: Victor Khosla, Strategic Value Partners

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

They do everything from hard assets like real estate, infrastructure, aircraft, power plants, to private debt, event driven opportunities. So there was some assets that were salvageable. But because these are really good businesses, which got levered, they got leveraged through these leverage buyouts.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

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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CPP Investments Aims to Double Credit Holdings Over Next Five Years

Pension Pulse

APRIL 25, 2024

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada pension fund's credit head wants to take advantage of leveraged buyout boom: Canada’s largest pension fund plans to nearly double the size of its credit holdings over the next five years, and it’s counting on an upturn in leveraged buyouts to generate some of that growth.

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Private Equity's Creative Wizardry Posing Systemic Risk?

Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

We’re seeing a slow-grinding implosion of this titanic asset bubble that started in 2012,” says Dan Zwirn, CEO at Arena Investors. estimates private-market assets were $13.1 Apex Group, a provider of services to asset managers, has just refinanced a slug of debt with a $1.1 McKinsey and Co. trillion at the end of June 2023.

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Transcript: Gretchen Morgenson

The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

I think that the asset stripping that has also occurred, pensions, for instance, are sold off, overfunded pensions get sold off and that goes into the private equity firm instead of into the company itself. Pension funds, perhaps, maybe aren’t growing as much as they need them to. Kind of a thing.

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This Week in Pensions & Investments: 10-11-2023

Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Fund’s quarterly results were driven by positive performance in credit and private equities and gains across U.S. dollar-denominated assets, which benefited from a strengthening U.S. The $1 billion decrease in net assets consisted of $1 billion in net income, less $2 billion in net base CPP outflows.

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Ares Raises $1.7 Billion for Australia Private Credit Fund

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Ares Faces Its Biggest Decision Yet: Stick With Private Credit or Become an Alts Supermarket

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Transcript: Michael Fisch

BCI Sells $1-Billion of Private Equity Holdings to Ardian

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CPP Investments Aims to Double Credit Holdings Over Next Five Years

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