This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2011

For every 5 haters on Business Insider, there's one startup out there that doesn't spend all their time reading the same stuff we do, and just happens to notice that video. They feel like I might be a reasonable guy to talk to about startups and decide to get an intro to someone at First Round because of it.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2023

The venture asset class seems to have already decided that AI is the next great investment opportunity, but I’m not so sure it’s going to disrupt business and create the across-the-board wealth that has been predicted.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 2023

Amir Barnea wrote another op-ed for the Toronto Star slamming CPP Investments for investing a third of its assets in private equity when Warren Buffet shuns it: When Canada’s national pension plan reported financial results in May, one fact really stood out for me: a full third of its assets — about $190 billion — are invested in private equity.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 12, 2024

The size of Canadian pension schemes means they can invest far more in productive assets like vital infrastructure than ours do,” the chancellor said on Tuesday. Former Conservative chancellor Jeremy Hunt also wanted to build a Canadian-style pensions model in Britain, but progress had been slow.

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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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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 21, 2020

The existence of these letters has everything to do with where the venture capital firms get their funds from. This post on Startup Lawyer explains it well: Venture funds request these rights in order to obtain an exemption from regulations under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 8, 2023

Mr. Hill will join OMERS in September, the public pension fund announced Wednesday, and report to Ralph Berg, who took over as the chief investment officer in April. The infrastructure portfolio owns 30 assets in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, and has more than 90 investment professionals. to the end of 2022.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Through our supervision activities, APRA has continued to address these issues with RSE licensees since the conclusion of the review," APRA said in a release that did not name any funds. Private assets are popular in Australia's A$2.4 Regulators are pushing private equity firms to do a better job when it comes to valuing their assets.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Gillian Tan, Swetha Gopinath and Layan Odeh of Bloomberg report OMERS to stop making direct private equity investments in Europe: The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System will stop making direct private equity investments in Europe as the pension fund overhauls its operations there, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 24, 2023

A month ago, Eliyahu Kamisher of the Los Angels Times reported that CalPERS pension fund posts 5.8% gain in its latest fiscal year as the stock market rally and private debt buoyed the largest traditional public pension fund in the United States. on private debt, as private equity slipped 2.3%, real assets dropped 3.1%

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 3, 2024

It is a sentiment echoed by Hendrik du Toit, founder and chief executive of international asset manager Ninety One, who said that ESG considerations have become an integral part of modern investing. “[The And the focus of pension funds and other asset managers needs to squarely be on opportunities in the transition economy.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 5, 2024

Vanderbilt University Endowment, the University of Illinois Foundation and existing investors also participated in the extension to a January funding round, lifting Bilt’s valuation to US$3.25 OTPP, the Canadian pension fund, owns Willow Bridge Property Co., billion from US$3.1

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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. between 2015 and the end of 2021. trillion in 2015 to$13.32

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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. between 2015 and the end of 2021. trillion in 2015 to$13.32

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 25, 2024

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports Teachers' invests in portable battery company aiming to replace gas-powered generators: Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is leading a US$95-million funding round for Instagrid GmbH, a German maker of portable battery systems designed to replace gas-powered generators.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 30, 2015

One of the first things I did when I joined the venture asset class as a lowly institutional LP analyst in 2001 was to build the VC fund cashflow model. Just about every analyst who looks at fund investing has built one. It's also not the "average fund". Venture capital is all about finding the extraordinary.

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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. We should be like, 00:06:58 [Speaker Changed] It’s 00:06:58 [Speaker Changed] A startup. So there was some assets that were salvageable. I write a business plan for it.

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The Big Picture

MAY 23, 2023

RITHOLTZ: And — and to — for a little context, maybe for some of the audience in America who may not be that familiar with Man Group, this isn’t like a startup. And now we, you know, we’re just shy of $145 billion of assets on the management across the entire credit curve. Not its asset management, its brokerage piece.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

No, I — the first thing I spoke at was a Goldman Sachs Asset Management conference, strange enough in a place called Carefree, Arizona. Jeremy called and said, “Would you like to join the asset allocation team?” So he wanted a sort of non-quanty view input into the asset allocation process. CHANCELLOR: Filled with quants.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

KKR was the biggest with $400 million of assets and eight people. And Forstmann Little was the second biggest with $200 million of assets, and four professionals and they hired me in as the fifth professional. RITHOLTZ: So this is in pouring money into startups like venture does. Do you do distressed asset, real estate?

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 22, 2023

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada Pension Plan Investment Board joins startup at $100 million Reforestation Fund: Canada’s largest pension fund has joined a project to produce carbon credits by planting more than 100 native tree species on degraded land in Brazil’s Amazon region.

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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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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In addition to BMW and Volkswagen AG , Northvolt’s top investors included Goldman Sachs’s asset management arm, Denmark’s biggest pension fund ATP, Baillie Gifford & Co. funds and a number of Swedish entities. Northvolt is also making preparations in case it fails to raise funds for the future.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

DAMODARAN: Or it could be some unique characteristic, pension funds pay no taxes. He said, don’t be a startup act that’s a stranger to the company, draw on the resources of the company, but make decisions as if you’re a startup. It seemed like the market took a decade or longer to catch up.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 2, 2024

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports HOOPP names infrastructure expert Annesley Wallace as its next CEO: The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan has named Annesley Wallace as its next chief executive officer, reaching outside the organization to choose a leader with expertise in infrastructure investing and strategy. billion ($80.2

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Daniel Johnson of Bloomberg reports fall economic statement: Ottawa seeks to lower pension fund investments caps: The federal government announced a move to ease limits for pension funds investing in Canadian companies in its latest fiscal update, along with responses to tariff threats from the U.S.

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American Investment Council

APRIL 8, 2025

Lost Retirement Earnings Private investments deliver the strongest returns for public pensions and strengthen retirement savings for more than 34 million public workers.Public pension funds supporting retirees could lose up to $520 million annually since they would be forced to shift into lower-yielding investments. An over 40.8%

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American Investment Council

APRIL 7, 2025

Lost Retirement Earnings Private investments deliver the strongest returns for public pensions and strengthen retirement savings for more than 34 million public workers. Public pension funds supporting retirees could lose up to $520 million annually since they would be forced to shift into lower-yielding investments.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The upside of a gilt market crisis : Ballooning pension fund surpluses and improved funding ratios — what’s not to like? He runs the business that provides investments, services, education, and research to more than 1,000 financial advisory firms representing more than $3 trillion in assets. Bloomberg ). • Upshot ). •

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