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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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 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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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

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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The Motley Fool

MAY 12, 2024

It even has an "outsourced chief investment officer" segment to handle defined benefit pension funds for clients. Because of the complexity of underwriting business risk insurance, companies will go through brokers like Marsh & McLennan to advise them on what kind of insurance they need and to bid it out to various underwriters.

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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

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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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 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 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.

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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 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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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

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Fund III will continue Ara’s strategy of investing in the decarbonization of the industrial economy, the greatest source of carbon emissions globally. Rede Partners acted as placement agent, and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP served as legal counsel in the formation of Fund III. Source: CISION PR Newswire Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Investors in these new funds include a broad range of medical institutions, university endowments, foundations, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and family offices. read more The post OrbiMed Raises $4.3bn for Latest Healthcare Investment Funds appeared first on Private Equity Insights.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2023

We are pleased with the continued expansion of our diverse investor base which includes a broad group of pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, financial institutions, endowments, and family offices from across the globe,” said Russell Cassella, Managing Partner. Houlihan Lokey Capital, Inc.

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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. Whenever he approaches a U.S.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2023

OHA manages approximately $61 billion of capital across credit strategies in pooled funds, collateralized loan obligations and single investor mandates as of June 30, 2023. Read more Blackstone and Reliance in $10bn Bidding War for Disney India Disney is nearing a deal to sell its India operations, which it values at around $10bn, to.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

While it is never easy to raise a “blind pool” of capital, Mukul Gulati, president and chief investment officer of Zephyr Peacock India, says India is on everyone’s radar and pension funds and large endowment funds are sitting on a large pool of money.

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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

Bert also explains the main advantages IMCO and other large Canadian pension funds have, namely, large, stable capital inflows, ability to internalize asset management and use their size to negotiate lower fees, especially in private markets.

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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

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

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

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 24, 2024

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. million of its shares from the Caisse at a discount for proceeds of about $400-million, and the pension fund sold nearly 2.9

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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

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. It's in this environment that these long-term funds thrive, something Andrew Coyne who is mesmerized by the S&P 500 making record gains doesn't seem to get.

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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

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.

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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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