Bidding Pension Funds Startups 
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.
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. The so-called ZIRP (Zero Interest Rate Phenomena) is well and truly history.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
This is going to be BIG.
JULY 30, 2015
It's also not the "average fund". You don't want the "average" fund, because average funds don't do well--just like you don't want to model the average startup, because you might as well draw a big flaming hole in the ground. And no, the numbers don't exactly add up--but they're more than close enough for venture capital.
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.
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.
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. WENGER: Yeah, that had really been my goal since my own first startup in ’96, ‘97, which was a company called W3Health that ultimately failed. Why is that?
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.”
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
130 
Let's personalize your content