Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

Question is: Can it become a one-stop shop for pension funds, endowments, insurers, and sovereign wealth funds eager for exposure to every major alternative-asset class — without diminishing its private credit franchise? Regulations are inconsistent between banks and nonbanks, and cost structures are different.”

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 8, 2024

Direct Investments Many pension funds and endowments have hit the limit for how much they can allocate to private equity, leaving buyout firms to turn to increasingly sophisticated wealthy families or sovereign funds. The shift is catching the eye of major investment banks.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 13, 2024

This year alone, Lazard has onboarded nine managing directors, including Adam Cady from Bank of America, to lead large-cap financial sponsor coverage in North America; and Ali Syed from Citigroup, to focus on sovereign wealth and pension funds.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

US institutional investors are offloading their private equity holdings at slashed prices, reflecting a broader trend of reducing exposure to the illiquid asset class, with pension funds and endowments leading the charge, according to a report by the Financial Times. The trend continued with 95% in 2022 and 73% in 2021.

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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. Quadria has a hard cap of $1bn for this vehicle. It has raised about $480-$500m so far.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Asia-managed fund says it has already deployed half the money raised in three platforms.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This suggests that institutional investors, including investment banks and pension funds, are scrambling to take part in what could be the biggest IPO of the past couple of years.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 12, 2024

This year, the firm added nine managing directors, including Adam Cady from Bank of America, to lead large-cap financial sponsor coverage in North America, as well as former Citigroup banker Ali Syed, to focus on sovereign wealth funds and pension funds.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 27, 2023

Over the past decade investors increased their allocation to less liquid private market assets, including buyout funds and real estate, in the hunt for higher returns. The trend turbocharged the growth of secondary funds that offer the likes of pension funds the chance to exit such investments early if they need to.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 31, 2024

AIMCo CEO Evan Siddall wrote an op-ed for the Globe and Mail stating ‘shadow banks’ aren’t a problem for the financial system – they are the solution: During the Great Financial Crisis of 2008-09, society paid a heavy price for having allowed financial institutions to become “too big to fail.”

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 26, 2023

Secondary funds offer pension funds and other investors the chance to secure an early exit from private equity buyout investments, which typically lock up investor cash for more than a decade, and have become increasingly common as institutional investors have upped their PE allocations in recent years.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 5, 2024

.” With electricity demand rising after two decades of stagnation, driven by the expansion of data centres and the digital infrastructure required for artificial intelligence, investors are increasingly seeking opportunities to acquire and invest in power plants.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2023

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. OHA is the private markets platform of T.

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Financial Times M&A

MARCH 31, 2022

Acquisition of Axicom from investment bank Macquarie follows funds buying up infrastructure assets

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 13, 2023

LPs include Alberta Investment Management Company (AIMCo), Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock. According to the Asian Development Bank (ADB), approximately US$1.7

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 23, 2024

Roughly $7 million worth of cancels came from a single client event, a historic merger of two major global banks in Europe that affected us across index, ESG, and analytics. As he noted, the vast majority of our first quarter cancels stemmed from client events such as industry consolidation, cost pressures, fund closures, and reorganization.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

Investment banks were not really a known concept in the area where I grew up. I lined up a bunch of job interviews with a variety of banks. So I got to know banks a little bit. So I interviewed with a bunch of banks, got a number of job offers by the end of the week, and joined Goldman Sachs in October 1998.

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Tucker Advisors

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Shortly after The Great Recession began unraveling in 2008, many people feared insurance companies would suffer the same fate as investment banks like Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns, Wachovia and Washington Mutual. After all, no one could have predicted those banks would fail, either.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And that was very important because when this was the dawning of what is now a big analyst program across the country in all banks and investment banks. There was no m and a departments in any investment bank really until the very late seventies. And I was fortunate to be accepted to both.

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The Big Picture

MAY 23, 2023

GREW: So, I got a call and this one was ultimately from a recruiter who’s working for Lehman Brothers, an investment bank, a bond house. In part because I again benefited from being in the mix when we were the second bank that was raided by the Japanese regulators after they’d gone into Credit Suisse. RITHOLTZ: Uh-oh.

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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2023

I started my career as a bank teller, but fell in love with markets. And so for the longest time, I actually thought that my unconventional background, I wasn’t an Ivy League student, I didn’t train at an investment bank, I wasn’t working for a hedge fund, I started my career as a bank teller.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Mike Wilson has been with Morgan Stanley since 1989, rising up through the ranks of institutional sales, trading, investing, banking to eventually becoming Chief Investment Officer and Chief US Equity Strategist. So I was really investment banking. What was that experience like? What was your trading career like?

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The Big Picture

JUNE 13, 2023

You went to school in Paris, but you began your career in London at Merrill and Deutsche Bank. So that was a while back, but nonetheless, I don’t know if it was love at first sight, but we got to get along pretty well, and after a few years working for investment banks, he then joined Goldman Sachs.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Bloomingdale’s filed for bankruptcy, S-C-I-T-V filed for bankruptcy, and for the first time banks, which owned the debt, wanted to sell. At the time, you’re early in your career, you have some experience, and an MBA when, when you first started hearing that from banks that, Hey, we got all this Bloomingdale debt.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 26, 2024

Apollo is one of a number investors, both wealthy individuals and professional money managers, that have reached out in recent weeks to BDT & MSD Partners, the investment bank advising the Redstones, according to people familiar with the discussions. Trillion in Assets Six of Canada's biggest pension funds managing C$1.3

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Pension Pulse

JULY 4, 2023

A similar process was used when the energy supplier Bulb collapsed in 2021 and would amount to a temporary renationalisation that would be the biggest since Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group were rescued at the height of the global financial crisis in 2008. What happened to Bentley? What was Macquarie’s role?

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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. What a mess, Northvolt's collapse has hit many investors, including Canadian pension funds.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

Prior to joining QIC, Sulaiman served as Investment Manager at UK mid-market private equity firm Graphite Capital and as Investment Executive at investment firm CDC Group (now British International Investment). She began her career in investment banking at the Royal Bank of Canada in London.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

It was between corporate law and investment banking. RITHOLTZ: So even back then, when it was the size that you could take a Christmas picture with everybody in one room at Goldman, they’re still doing investment banking. It’s the sovereign funds around the world, in Europe and Asia. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan chief investment officer to depart at the end of December: Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan chief investment officer Ziad Hindo is leaving the pension fund manager at the end of the year after five years in the role.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 10, 2023

Crane was most recently a senior managing director, responsible for overseeing and managing infrastructure and natural resources investments for the pension fund in the Asia-Pacific region. According to the pension fund, it currently has more than 85 employees in the region. He holds a B.S. He holds a B.S.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 15, 2024

The pension fund had solid returns from its portfolio of public stocks, which gained 10.4 But stocks make up only 19 per cent of the pension fund’s assets after it shifted billions of dollars from equities into government bonds and credit investments, seeking to take advantage of high interest rates.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

At the same time regulators are becoming ever more fearful about what’s being hidden from view, and the threat of contagion from any private-markets meltdown to the banking system and real-economy jobs. Oleg Melentyev, Bank of America Corp.’s And yet private firms’ lack of transparency is a source of increasing angst. “We

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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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Pension Pulse

MAY 23, 2024

It’s late April, and Emond is appearing at a hearing at Quebec’s National Assembly, where parliamentarians are zeroing in on a perceived dilution of the share of assets the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec has invested at home, from 26.1% CPP Investments, meanwhile—Canada’s largest pension investor, with the Caisse at No.

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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. He also spent 25 years in investment banking at Japanese dealer Nomura Securities, German lender Deutsche Bank AG and U.S.-based

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