Private Equity Wire

JUNE 6, 2024

The SEC has suffered a major setback in its bid to increase oversight of the private equity and venture capital industry after a US appeals court threw out a new rule requiring managers to provide investors with fees and expenses each quarter. ” He said in a statement.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 30, 2015

Just about every analyst who looks at fund investing has built one. You incorporate expected company returns, mortality rates, and fee structures to try to predict how a venture capital fund works from a cash in, cash out, and NAV standpoint. It's also not the "average fund". It's about building the exceptions.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The New York State Teachers Retirement System (NYSTRS) committed $400m (£315.55m) to private debt funds between October and December last year. The pension fund allocated $300m to the OIC Credit Opportunities IV fund, while the remaining $100m was committed to the Peninsula VIII, according to publicly available documents.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The cornerstone investor of BInF II is the European Investment Fund (EIF). Investors contributing to the fund include EIF, Swedbank pension funds, SEB pension funds, LHV Pension funds and pension funds managed by Citadele group. “We Source: BaltCap Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 28, 2023

is mulling the sale of $2 billion in private equity assets in the secondary market to raise capital for other investments, according to people familiar with the matter. Read More: Startup Shares Trading at 61% Discount Lure Venture Capital BCI, which invests the retirement savings of British Columbia’s public sector workers, returned 3.5%

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

I Squared Capital is considering selling a minority stake in Think Gas Distribution Pvt. The asset could attract investment funds and pension funds, the people said. that could value the Indian natural gas supplier at more than $1bn, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 13, 2023

With the ongoing growth of its platform, Vistara is now seeking to broaden its investor base by targeting pension funds and other institutional investors, and geographically by launching vehicles for both US and international investors. is weighing a bid for UK's Pension Insurance Corporation.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2023

OrbiMed, a global healthcare investment firm, is pleased to announce it has raised more than $4.3bn in commitments for its latest private investment funds, including OrbiMed Private Investments IX, OrbiMed Asia Partners V and OrbiMed Royalty & Credit Opportunities IV. Source: CISION PR Newswire Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The private equity consortium led by buyout giant CVC Capital Partners, alongside Nordic Capital and Platinum Ivy, poised to acquire Hargreaves Lansdown has expanded its roster of lenders backing the £5.4bn deal, accordong tome report by the Business Desk.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Ara Partners (“Ara” or the “Firm”), a leading private equity and infrastructure investment firm specializing in industrial decarbonization, today announced that it has closed over $3bn of new capital commitments. is weighing a bid for UK's Pension Insurance Corporation.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

James Hirai of Bloomberg reports Dutch pension funds send shockwaves through euro swap market: Dutch pension funds are plowing cash into long-dated swap contracts, according to strategists, upending one of this year’s most popular trades. The funds, by far the region’s largest with more than €1.5 in a client note.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

US private equity giant KKR and top Canadian pension fund Canada Pension Plan Investment Board ( CPPIB) have launched a $465 million block deal in Indus Towers as both investors eye an exit from the leading telecom tower company, multiple industry sources in the know told Moneycontrol.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Canadian pension funds acquired Santanders stake in 2016, becoming equal owners. For KKR, a successful bid for Cubico would mark another significant move in its expanding renewable energy portfolio. Today, Cubico operates wind and solar farms across Europe, the Americas, and Australia, with a total capacity of 2.8

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Oak Hill Advisors (“OHA”) served as a Lead Arranger for the unitranche financing to fund Bain Capital Private Equity’s (“Bain Capital”) acquisition of Harrington Industrial Plastics (“Harrington”) from Nautic Partners. and globally.

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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? They tend to be owned by private equity firms with stronger capitalizations.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

billion bid and Ottawa has said Glencore would face rigorous scrutiny. Canada's large pension funds are globally known investors, managing more than $1 trillion of savings, but their exposure to domestic equities has steadily declined over the past decade since Canadian equity markets represent just 3% of the global equity market.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

New York-based global investment manager Zephyr Peacock is looking to raise $200m from global and domestic investors over the next few months to provide growth capital to Indian enterprises. Global funds are sitting on dry powder that can easily run into tens of billions of dollars.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 30, 2024

We are thrilled to be entering into this partnership, on behalf of our pension fund client ABP and Asset Owner Partners, and we are eager to work closely with the euNetworks team as they continue to develop and further their strategic vision.” Billion Loan for AirTrunk Bid Private equity firm Blackstone Inc.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 20, 2023

2023 serves as another good reminder of just how hard it is to accurately predict near term macroeconomic or capital market events. But investment success that is premised on near-term macro or capital market predictions requires not just predicting the event, but also getting the timing right. That is hard to do on a consistent basis.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 24, 2024

ADQ will invest primary capital in Plenary to accelerate its growth in Australia, the Middle East, Asia, Europe. John O’Rourke, co-founder and chairman of Plenary, said Canadian pension fund Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec (CDPQ) would sell its 20 per cent stake to ADQ, allowing existing investors to pocket some cash.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 23, 2024

But what’s even more relevant, he says, is that with $88 billion now invested in a province with a GDP of nearly $500 billion, “the Caisse is the pension fund that is the most invested, in the world, in its local economy.” More than ever, Canada’s largest pension funds are being pressed to play the same role in the rest of the country.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 2024

The strip sale involved more than 60 international PE funds and co-investments, according to CDPQ’s annual report. Peter Dubens, co-founder of Oakley Capital – one such GP – said the growth of the secondaries market is a healthy development and has made private equity more liquid. “If We would have no issue with that.

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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

JULY 10, 2024

“Compared with the Savings & Loans crisis and 2008, we’re still in the first or second innings” when it comes to troubled assets, said Rebel Cole, a finance professor at Florida Atlantic University who also advises Oaktree Capital Management. There’s a tsunami coming and the waters are pulling out from the beach.”

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

At C$146 billion, equivalent to a quarter of the entire C$575 billion pension fund for some 21 million Canadians and forecast to grow bigger every year, Kim leads a program that is also heading into unchartered territory. Most were on the fund's private equity team and were informed early last month, according to two of the people.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 27, 2023

The full share capital of Premier Lotteries Ireland (PLI), currently majority owned by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan with minority stakes held by An Post, is to be sold to La Francaise des Jeux, pending approval by the lottery regulator. FDJ acquires the entire capital of this company for an enterprise value of 350 million euros.

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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. pension fund, has yet to release its fiscal 2023 results.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 21, 2024

Consequently, no shareholders provided further funding to Thames Water and the value of OMERS Thames Water investment has now been written off,” said James Thompson, a spokesperson for OMERS Infrastructure, in an e-mailed statement Friday. Another major Canadian pension fund, British Columbia Investment Management Corp.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 5, 2024

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: David Snyderman, Magnetar Capital , is below. For me, I sat mostly in their internal, really an internal hedge fund. They borrowed money at live bid at the time. So Alec Lilitz and Ross Lazar founded the firm and, you know, I did join the day we launched our, our main fund.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 28, 2024

CPP Investments, the public pension plan’s asset manager, has about $36 billion under management in Latin America, or about 5% of its global portfolio, in sectors from electric utilities and sanitation to real estate, telecoms and logistics.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 12, 2023

for many years in the hope of acquiring it one day, but the Audet family, which controls both entities, rebuffed its overtures — including a hostile bid in 2020. for many years in the hope of acquiring it one day, but the Audet family, which controls both entities, rebuffed its overtures — including a hostile bid in 2020. TSX: RCI.B).

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 24, 2024

The subsidiaries' investment teams will then become CDPQ investment groups on April 29, and will continue to conduct their activities in the market under their respective brands, Ivanhoé Cambridge and Otéra Capital. The move follows a similar initiative by Ontario Teachers' Pension Fund, announced last June.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 17, 2024

Otherwise, recent US$ weakness caused by a net slowing in US growth momentum provides a bid under commodities. George Soros, Carl Icahn, Stanley Druckenmiller, Julian Robertson have converted their hedge funds into family offices to manage their own money. The DXY is currently flirting with its 200-dma at 104.3.

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American Investment Council

JUNE 5, 2024

The rules would have imposed new reporting requirements on the secretive funds in a bid to strengthen investor protection, shaking up an industry that has fiercely opposed stricter SEC oversight. The rules would give greater power to pension funds, endowments and other institutions in their dealings with the funds, the SEC says.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Returning capital to shareholders will remain a high priority for the company going forward. David will provide further thoughts on our approach to capital returns in his remarks. The liability we recorded in our Q4 results is for prior periods related to this pension plan. I'd like to provide some perspective on each of these.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 22, 2024

billion in LifeLabs and two of the sources said the asset manager is asking for a premium valuation on the business, well above the capital OMERS has put into acquisitions. billion market capitalization. billion market capitalization. LifeLabs is part of the pension fund’s $34-billion infrastructure portfolio.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

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