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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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 15, 2023

CVC Capital Partners revives stock market listing plan Submitted 15/08/2023 - 11:03am CVC Capital Partners, one of Europe's largest buyout investment firms, is again looking at a multibillion-euro stock market listing that could happen before the end of this year, according to a report by the Financial Times. Like this article?

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

CVC agrees €1bn deal for Dutch infrastructure firm DIF Capital Partners Submitted 05/09/2023 - 11:29am European private equity firm CVC has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Dutch infrastructure investor DIF Capital Partners in a deal worth around €1bn in cash and shares, with a commitment to acquire the remaining shares "over time".

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

CVC to pay €1bn for Dutch infrastructure firm DIF Capital Partners Submitted 05/09/2023 - 11:29am European private equity firm CVC has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Dutch infrastructure investor DIF Capital Partners in a deal worth around €1bn in cash and shares, with a commitment to acquire the remaining shares "over time".

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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.

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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.

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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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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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Pension Pulse

JUNE 22, 2023

About Brookfield Infrastructure Brookfield Infrastructure is a leading global infrastructure company that owns and operates high-quality, long-life assets in the utilities, transport, midstream and data sectors across North and South America, Asia Pacific and Europe. And when did Brookfield acquire its controlling stake?

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

dollar-denominated assets, which benefited from a strengthening U.S. Performance of the Base and Additional CPP Accounts The base CPP account ended its second quarter of fiscal 2024 on September 30, 2023, with net assets of $546 billion, compared to $547 billion at the end of the previous quarter.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 5, 2025

Stefano Pessina, Walgreens chairman and a key architect of its 2014 merger with Alliance Boots, is expected to roll over his stake as part of the deal. explored a leveraged buyout of the company, but the deal ultimately collapsed. This isnt the first time Walgreens has considered going private. In 2019, KKR & Co.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 25, 2025

This is especially relevant as high interest rates make leveraged buyouts more expensive and economic uncertainty affects valuations, Bloomberg said. Assets are taking more time, resources and effort to get to their full potential, Taylor said. percent one-year net return last year, growing assets to more than C$266 billion.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 31, 2025

Private equity fundraising has faced headwinds, with high borrowing costs dampening institutional investors appetite for leveraged buyouts. Private equity remains Blackstones second-largest division by assets under management, following its credit and insurance business.

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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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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 30, 2023

Canadian asset management giant Brookfield has emerged as the world’s most acquisitive investment firm this year, as the titans of private equity increasingly stay on the sidelines. That’s roughly triple the deal tallies of buyout firms like Apollo Global Management Inc., EQT AB and Silver Lake Management.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 10, 2024

They come in, they take a stake in a company. Sometimes it’s a minority stake, sometimes it’s a larger stake, and they help affect this massive change with great results. And they’re not, again, they’re not just consultants. They, they’re one of the few companies that specialize in this.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

So, I graduated from business school in 1987 and went to GE Capital for two years, financing leveraged buyouts. I mean, you know, I probably shouldn’t have been doing it because I had been a journalist covering public schools and knew nothing about leveraged buyouts. And I actually started out of business school.

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