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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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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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

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

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

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

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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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 30, 2015

I'd say no--they're taking money from the same endowments, high net worths and pension funds as everyone else. I've never heard any limited partner ask me if I can generate a better return than their Series A funds.

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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

JULY 27, 2023

As part of the agreement, FDJ, which is the operator of the French National Lottery, will purchase the shares from Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, An Post, and An Post Pension Fund. PLI was awarded a 20 year contract to operate the National Lottery by the Irish Government back in 2014. An Post also welcomed the sale.

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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

Our non-GAAP results exclude $276 million of expense in personnel related to a ruling in the Netherlands pension fund matter and $530 million of expense in G&A related to a draft decision by the Spanish Competition Authority. The liability we recorded in our Q4 results is for prior periods related to this pension plan.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Silas Brown and Kat Hidalgo of Bloomberg report Florida pension to offload up to $4 billion of private credit: The Florida State Board of Administration is looking to sell a bundle of private credit stakes worth as much as $4 billion in what would be one of the largest deals of its kind, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 10, 2024

Also, supply is cyclical and there will come a point where the bid-ask spread narrows and PE firms start to transact again. Right now, spreads and terms on new deal flow appear attractive, so lenders are being disciplined for the most part.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

With this momentum, we expect this segment to be the first to bend the revenue curve back to growth, and we think bid market segment will follow suit. Since establishing the dedicated go-to-market team for bid markets last June, tenured direct sales productivity increased 26% while we simultaneously grew the sales force by 15%.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

An information memorandum on a potential sale was circulated earlier in the year, and by late August, four firms were left in the bidding process, a person close to the situation told Private Equity News' sister title Financial News. The deal values the UK wealth manager at roughly £450m, according to a source familiar with the situation.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

They said, hey, if you're involved, chill the auction and no one wants to bid, and so you can't even show up. Their structures are built by their customers who are the limited partners by and large mostly its pension funds. It's not actually created by the private equity firms, it's created upstream by the pension funds.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Over the past 36 years, Burgiss has created greater private asset transparency while serving institutional investors such as pension funds, endowments, foundations, and family offices. They bid up the properties. And, you know, you end up significantly overpaying.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

WENGER: It was a very, very lucky landing for Tumblr, because Yahoo really was the only bidder and they were bidding against themselves, but they didn’t really know that. What was that experience like now not as a president, but as an outside investor? Let me hang my hat at Union Square Ventures and focus solely on something else.”.

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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. You’ve talked about pensions are now facing illiquidity issues because private equity and venture capital have gates up a lot, a lot of long-term tie up. So it was their excess cash. Oh, really?

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I remember once, one of my colleagues says that a friend, one of the French Lazard Frerers partners was asked by a sort of junior, “How much should we tell our client to bid?” pension funds engaged in to the tune of hundreds of billions of pounds. And the French partner said, “The price is right which hurts our client.”

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 20, 2023

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). Keep in mind that Credit Investments (CI) make up 13% of CPP Investments' total portfolio which make it a very important asset class. I'm very focused on that right now.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 8, 2024

On Wednesday, more than 90 chief executive officers at some of the country’s largest companies signed an open letter that urges federal and provincial finance ministers to “amend the rules governing pension funds to encourage them to invest in Canada.” And on Thursday, Ms. That compares with a 7.4-per-cent

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

RITHOLTZ: You hit the bid before — RIEDER: Well, yes. Which is run by many insurance companies, pension funds who use Aladdin, and it’s a commercial enterprise for the firm. Didn’t it start as a bond shop, catering to pension funds and foundations? RIEDER: Yeah. RIEDER: It is. RIEDER: Right.

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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 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 trillion ($965.47

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We have institutional clients, we have retail clients, we have, you know, pension funds, we have endowments. Now what we did trade well was our defensiveness and our quality bid, staying away from small caps. So I would say the challenge of having those roles is that our institutional clients are much shorter term.

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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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