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

Alright, Bert Clark wrote an excellent overview of 2023 from IMCO's perspective, highlighting why proper diversification across public and private markets helped the organization withstand the shock over the past two years where stocks and bonds got hurt (until mid-October where long bonds rallied hard).

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

Yet, like its peers, Ares feels compelled to diversify into other asset classes, such as real estate, infrastructure, and private equity. The attractions of sticking with private credit are obvious. It’s easy enough to understand why Ares Cap would prefer to lend to a big firm than to a small- or middle-market one.

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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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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. trillion ($965.47 trillion ($965.47

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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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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. Private equity firms also have a lot of dry powder to put to work, and the ratio of Private Debt to Private Equity dry powder does not look excessive.

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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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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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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.

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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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Pension Pulse

JULY 10, 2024

Private equity firms are already positioning to take advantage. 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. That's when interesting opportunities arise for long-term investors.

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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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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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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Sarah Rundell of Top1000Funds recently interviewed Suyi Kim, Global Head of Private Equity at CPP Investments to go over what drives success at their giant PE portfolio: Suyi Kim, global head of private equity at CPP Investments manages quite possibly the largest private equity allocation in the world.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 23, 2023

It is for this reason that Canadian pension giant BCI finds itself in a rather enviable position. Under the leadership of global head of private equity Jim Pittman, the C$233 billion ($172.8 BCI's PE program is split almost evenly between funds and directs which now make up roughly 42% of the PE assets. billion; €158.2

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Whatever you can get for it, hit the bid. And infrastructure today is bought by sovereign funds, big pension funds with a view that it is very steady. Two, three years at a private equity firm. And whoever the new owner of the foreign banks are, tend to say, Hey, I didn’t buy that junk.

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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. Committed US$400 million to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Fund XII. per cent return. Invested US$180 million for a 9.8%

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The decision to put a senior government official on the board of the arm’s-length pension fund manager raises questions about AIMCo’s continued independence, and whether the move opens the door to the government to exert greater political influence or to steer the pension fund manager toward government priorities.

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