Private Equity Insights

JULY 12, 2024

European utility Engie has joined forces with Canada’s second-largest pension fund to try to buy British power network Electricity North West (ENWL), according to two sources with knowledge of the matter. Read more South Korea’s Hahn & Co raises $3.4bn for new buyout fund Aircraft landing gear maker Héroux-Devtek Inc.

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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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Financial Times M&A

MARCH 6, 2023

Deal for survey software group would be one of largest this year

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2023

BaltCap, the largest private equity fund manager in the Baltics, held the first closing of its €200m target BaltCap Infrastructure Fund II (BInF II). The fund is an Article 9 fund under the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation. The cornerstone investor of BInF II is the European Investment Fund (EIF).

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 12, 2024

It is how institutional investors, like pension funds, do it, normally using an asset allocation model. The dividend the REIT pays is so large that if you buy more shares of AGNC, the payment more than makes up for the price declines in the stock. AGNC data by YCharts. This isn't how income-focused investors do things.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 5, 2024

The Bloomberg report added that HSBC is working with Bank of America Corp on the potential divestment of INKA, its German fund administration business. Read more BlackRock Unveils Climate Policies for $150bn in Funds BlackRock Inc. is singling out funds with combined assets of $150bn for an extra screen designed.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Menlo Park, California-based firm with offices in Miami, New York and Sao Paulo, tapped pension funds, hospital systems, foundations, endowments, fund of funds, insurance companies and family offices among other investors, according to a statement. The funding winter may. The funding winter may.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 12, 2024

average annualized total return, according to data from Ned Davis Research and Hartford Funds. It even has an "outsourced chief investment officer" segment to handle defined benefit pension funds for clients. Over the past 50 years, the average dividend-paying stock in the S&P 500 has delivered a 9.2% That's above the 3.3%

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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 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

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The Firm has concluded a successful fundraising for Ara Fund III (“Fund III” or the “Fund”), closing on $2.8bn of limited partner commitments, alongside dedicated limited partner co-investment vehicles. Ara has total assets under management of approximately $5.6bn. ” Mr. . ” Mr.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Vistara Growth (“Vistara”) today announced an initial closing at over $150m for Vistara Technology Growth Fund V LP (“Fund V”) towards its target of $400m. With its Fund V target raise, Vistara expects to be strategically positioned to invest in 18-24 companies across North America at $10-$30m per investment.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 7, 2023

Revelstoke Capital Partners, a Denver-based private equity firm with $5.8bn of assets under management, announced today that it has completed the successful fundraising for Revelstoke Capital Partners Fund III, and various affiliated investment vehicles totalling $1.7bn. RCP Fund III substantially surpassed its target of $1bn.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 28, 2023

The pension fund is close to finalizing the sale of some of its Europe-focused investments and is in the middle of negotiations to reduce some of its US positions, one of the people said, who asked not to be identified due to the confidentiality of the matter. The pension fund held C$28.3 from the prior fiscal year.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

The asset could attract investment funds and pension funds, the people said. Read more India’s Lok Capital seeks $200m for Fund IV, gets AIIB support Indian impact investor Lok Capital has secured USD 25m from Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

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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. In 2017, Bharti Airtel sold a 10.3

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 28, 2025

The report cites unnamed sources familiar with the matter as revealing that the sale process, which was initiated by Cubicos owners Canadas Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP) and the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan (OTPP) has also attracted interest from Italian energy conglomerate Enel, as well as other infrastructure investors and funds.

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AltAssets

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

KKR has had its 1.56bn bid for British healthcare property developer Assura rejected. The offer, made in partnership with UK-based pension fund Universities Superannuation Scheme, is the latest of four indicative, non-binding proposals from KKR.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The group has announced it has secured financing commitments from four additional lenders – Korea Investment, KDB Asia, Sona Asset Management, and Canadian pension fund The Public Sector Pension Board.

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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

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? The attractions of sticking with private credit are obvious. “The Whenever he approaches a U.S.

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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. Source: CISION PR Newswire Source: Bain Capital Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Zephyr Peacock India looks to raise $200m in the midst of funding winter. The funding winter may not be anywhere near over, but global investors are still interested in India’s private markets. 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. million members.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Research by CEM Benchmarking shows that costs can play as big a role in returns as active management, particularly for smaller funds. This was one of the reasons four smaller funds (OC Transpo, OCWA, the PBGF and Tarion) joined IMCO in 2023.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 18, 2023

Business Wire reports that Norway's sovereign fund tops global transparency ranking: TORONTO — Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, Government Pension Fund Global, has topped the list of the most transparent funds according to the Global Pension Transparency Benchmark’s 2023 findings.

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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.” We must take into account the size of the fund, the size of the Quebec economy. a decade ago to 20.3%

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 21, 2023

UK's Nest pension scheme to ramp up PE allocations Submitted 21/08/2023 - 12:19pm The National Employment Savings Trust (Nest), one of the UK's largest workplace pension schemes, is planning to boost its allocation to private equity investments in a bid to improve long-term returns, according to a report by the Telegraph.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 24, 2024

Jenny Wiggins of the Australian Financial Review also reports Plenary Group sells 49% stake to sovereign wealth fund ADQ in $1b deal: Founders and some executives of infrastructure investor Plenary Group will receive a cash windfall after the Australian group sold a 49 per cent stake to Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ in a $1 billion deal.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 17, 2024

Carly Wanna and Carmen Reinicke of Bloomberg report hedge funds pump up exposure to Nvidia, cut AMD: Hedge funds continued to lean into the biggest technology companies leading the way in artificial intelligence as the hype propelled the US stock market higher in the first quarter of the year. and Microsoft Corp. according to the data.

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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. On the funds side, because commitments are drawn down over the years trying to time the market isn’t an issue.

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American Investment Council

JUNE 5, 2024

“A federal appeals court on Wednesday struck down a sweeping overhaul of rules governing private equity firms and hedge funds, a big win for Wall Street groups pushing back against SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s agenda.” Today, POLITICO published an article highlighting the 5 th U.S.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 2024

billion; €6 billion) in liquidity last year, including roughly C$6 billion from selling direct investments and receiving dividend recapitalisations, and around C$3 billion from selling private equity fund stakes in the secondaries market, head of PE Martin Longchamps tells affiliate title Private Equity International.

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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

That risks dragging values in Europe and Asia down further, or leaving some markets stuck in stasis as sellers and lenders refuse to cave to super-lowball bids. Higher borrowing costs mean private equity players are “seeing a sharp decline in fund raising and transactions.” And this isn't just a US problem.

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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

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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