Pension Pulse

AUGUST 24, 2023

It’s the first full fiscal year since CalPERS ramped up its private equity investments with a $25-billion bet while increasing the use of leverage and allocations to private debt. Despite the challenges buyouts firms are facing, some investors are increasing their bets on the asset class in a bid to profit from cheaper valuations.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As I stated in the past, we have yet to see a correlation between sales and retailer demand as evidenced by our deal flow, which in terms of square footage is 40% greater when compared to the same period last year. These proceeds were used to fund the PPRT acquisition and to reduce leverage on Queen Center. Regarding holiday.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And you can go long, you can go short, you can have leverage, you could have higher exposure levels, but the securities are in the liquid public markets versus private equity, which are in illiquid private markets. 00:45:53 [Speaker Changed] So where does your deal flow come from? It sounds like very competitive space.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 13, 2023

The exposure you get in investment banking, I was a leveraged finance banker by background. And so late 90s, that’s the emergence of the high yield market in Europe, you would print deals like never before. Private equity at the time was only about buyout and LBO. I think it was a great training. I think we learned a lot.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And I think a lot of investors and, and lenders and really lost their way and agreed to terms and conditions that in under today’s market environment would not be acceptable levels of leverage that would not work. And, and as a result, there is a, a condition where there’s risks and opportunities in the current market.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

We’re going to look at a buyout and look at the pricing, look at the structure. So, you know, it got to the point where, it was exciting at first, as a deal. You had a lot of the big buyout firms, they were doing the transactions in the ‘80s, in the early ‘90s. And they were doing mid-sized deals.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

UK sponsor-backed financing activity experienced a modest slowdown in Q3 2024, as ongoing M&A sluggishness and seasonal dynamics impacted deal flow, according to the latest data from global investment bank, Houlihan Lokey.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

One, simplify the business; two, improve operational performance; and three, reduce leverage. I would note that as it relates to the amortization of the debt marks to market resulting from the JV buyouts, we expect this to have an incremental $0.09 Traffic for the year was up almost 2% when compared to 2023.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 3, 2025

There is also now only one global credit group which manages any style of credit including investment grade, leveraged finance, high yield, private credit, external private credit and structured credit. Private equity is the final piece of the puzzle with investments dominated by the buyout program.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 25, 2024

BXPE will leverage the firm's full breadth of investment capabilities in private equity, including buyout, secondaries, tactical opportunities, life sciences growth, and other opportunistic strategies. So how is it possible to generate positive comp ratio leverage when revenues are down. And so that's a positive.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

But when you’re doing larger businesses, and we have clients that are pan regional, that are European, pan-European buyout players, or that are global buyout players that do global deals, US and Europe. But also it helped private equity do deals, right? Leverage buyouts requires leverage.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

And having gone into biotech early and then tech enabled, you know, software using, you know, leveraging the internet in healthcare early, I just felt like payments and FinTech, I wanted to be early. How does this affect the deal flow you see in the companies you look at, do you have your own space and and that’s what you drill into?

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