Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 26, 2024

Private-equity group Sycamore Partners is considering a potential bid to purchase department store chain Macy’s (NYSE:M), according to a report in the New York Post. billion take private bid from investing firm Arkhouse and hedge fund Brigade earlier this month. The report comes after Macy’s rejected a $5.8

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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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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 28, 2023

British Columbia Investment Management Corp. 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. The pension fund held C$28.3 Net assets advanced to C$215 billion ($163.4 from the prior fiscal year.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 17, 2024

On that lag, Tim Human of IR Magazine reports the Society for Corporate Governance, NIRI and NYSE write to the SEC calling for new rule-making process: A new push is under way in the US market to make investment firms disclose their equity holdings in a more timely fashion. The DXY is currently flirting with its 200-dma at 104.3.

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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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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 18, 2023

trillion of longer-dated contracts tied to stocks and indexes scheduled to mature on Friday, according to an estimate by Rocky Fishman, founder of derivatives analytical firm Asym 500. Wall Street curmudgeon and co-founder of the Boston-based investment firm Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo, Jeremy Grantham, reiterated his call for a recession.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 2024

These professionals had been trained to spot top private companies and PE funds, rather than to sell their investments. The success of this monetization plan should be part of the Harvard Business Review case study so other large pension funds and sovereign wealth funds can mimic it. Couche-Tard will pay $80.50

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 20, 2023

Keep in mind that Credit Investments (CI) make up 13% of CPP Investments' total portfolio which make it a very important asset class. Importantly, no other large Canadian pension fund has allocated as much to Credit as CPP Investments (or Private Equity which makes up 33% of of its total assets). Committed INR 18.5

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

In private credit, tightening credit conditions resulting from a handful of bank failures and rescues in the United States have opened up opportunities for non-bank players like pension funds, he said. Christine Dobby of the Toronto Star also reports CPP Investments posts 1.3% per cent return. Headquartered in Boston, U.S.,

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