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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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 7, 2023

According to reports, Barclays has been hired to advise on the bid, which would value the Co-operative Bank at around £800m. million retail customers, was sold to a group of hedge fund investors on 2017 after it came close to collapse. Formerly part of the Co-op Group, the Co-operative Bank, which has 2.7

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Some pension funds are much more aggressive than others in writing down private market assets and some use dispositions -- or targeted asset sales at year end -- to boost returns of some private market asset classes. This year, the Magnificent 7 is up a massive 75% while the remaining 493 companies are up just 12%.

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Axial

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

When the Berstein Family sold ImageFIRST to a private equity firm, the group found themselves eager for a new challenge. Since that time, the firm has grown and prospered by following a non-traditional approach to private equity investing, both in terms of firm structure and investing philosophy.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In fact, the number of deals across the entire private equity portfolio has slowed significantly in the last two years. “We We have submitted bids, but we often come in far below the winning bid and in retrospect we are happy that we’ve missed these investments.” “We use our secondaries to adjust the portfolio here.”

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 27, 2023

An arm of Canadian investment giant Brookfield has made a cash and stock bid for American Equity Investment Life Holding Co. valuing the insurance firm at about $4.3 is proposing to buy all the American Equity shares it doesn’t already own for $55 apiece, according to a statement. The bid includes $38.85

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The Big Picture

MAY 21, 2023

New York Times ) • Elon Musk Didn’t Just Do Turkey’s Bidding. “The bankruptcy wipes out private equity firm KKR’s investment in Envision. “The bankruptcy wipes out private equity firm KKR’s investment in Envision. She routinely mistook her adult son for his uncle. billion including debt.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 5, 2024

For me, I sat mostly in their internal, really an internal hedge fund. They borrowed money at live bid at the time. So we’d have credit, we’d have equities, we’d have hedge fund strategies, but with no silos. You guys operated pretty fully hedged at most of the time, right?

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Whatever you can get for it, hit the bid. 00:25:10 [Speaker Changed] When we did distressed debt, we were focused on buying debt and restructuring it into equity, being on kind of boards of directors trying to work with the businesses. You can’t do private equity. Two, three years at a private equity firm.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Had a group based in Los Angeles that had a long and, and, and experienced team that was investing in distressed debt and really kept separate and apart from what the rest of the hedge fund at PWA was doing. Panossian ] 00:08:19 The liabilities, obviously the hedge funds had redemptions. There would’ve been no bid.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

Performance fees decreased by $621 million driven by fewer realization events in the private equity portfolio given the low transaction activity through the year, partially offset by strong performance of hedge funds. Committed US$400 million to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Fund XII.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, his name is Steve Klinsky, and he has an absolutely storied history in the field of private equity. Well, there were only 20 private equity firms in the world in 1984. We have a lending arm at my firm as well.

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Axial

MARCH 20, 2025

Financial buyers are made up of private equity firms, hedge funds, independent sponsors, family offices, search funds, and high-net-worth individuals. A search fund often (but not always) will offer the lowest price, but a search fund is someone who wants to step into the role as CEO.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 5, 2023

American Equity Investment Life Holding Co. billion cash and stock takeover bid from an arm of Canadian investment giant Brookfield. The offer represents a 35% premium to American Equity’s closing price on June 23, the last full trading day before Bloomberg revealed Brookfield’s interest. billion cash and stock takeover bid.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

And you know, you guys make your bids. Westinghouse, you make your bid. GE, you make your bid. And oh, these bids seem awfully similar. And Paul was one of the founders of a private equity firm, Providence Equity Partners. RITHOLTZ: From the equity side or the debt side? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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