Pension Pulse

APRIL 25, 2024

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada pension fund's credit head wants to take advantage of leveraged buyout boom: Canada’s largest pension fund plans to nearly double the size of its credit holdings over the next five years, and it’s counting on an upturn in leveraged buyouts to generate some of that growth. There’s pent-up demand.

Leveraged Buyouts 59

Leveraged Buyouts Buyout Pension Funds Mergers and Acquisitions 59

The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Deal activity has picked up nicely since the first half of the year, driven by increased refinancings and, on acquisitions, a new buyout activity. I do think deal flow activity will pick up, and that will generate some repayment income that we haven't had for a while. So, if we could do a little bit better, we can.

Capital 100

Capital Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Leveraging 100

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. I guess the first question, Scott, maybe just going back to the Pacific JV buyout. Regarding holiday.

Debt 130

Debt Assets Portfolios Leveraging 130

The Big Picture

JUNE 13, 2023

Private equity at the time was only about buyout and LBO. But I also learned along the way that you rarely die, I mean as a company, from your P&L or from your assets, but you always die from your liabilities. Coming back to my comment, again, it’s your liability side. Great opportunity for us.

Banks 59

Banks Asset Management Assets Capital 59

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Panossian ] 00:08:19 The liabilities, obviously the hedge funds had redemptions. Now they’re suffering from high rates because they have floating rate liabilities that they never hedged. There were so much for selling from the, something called SIVs, the special investment vehicles, right. That had mismatched assets.

Private Equity Firms 52

Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Debt Banks 52

The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

As I've stated in the past, we have yet to see a correlation between sales and retailer demand as evidenced by our deal flow, both in terms of number of deals and square footage when compared to the same period last year, and I'll get into this more in a moment. Traffic for the year was up almost 2% when compared to 2023.

Debt 130

Debt Assets Asset Management Leveraging 130

Pension Pulse

MARCH 3, 2025

Its somewhat of an anomaly that a fund which has liabilities greater than its assets, putting liquidity risk front and centre, would have so much invested in unlisted assets. Private equity is the final piece of the puzzle with investments dominated by the buyout program. We decided to focus on our buyout efforts in North America.

Buyout 52

Buyout Pension Funds Investing Assets 52