Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The funds will focus on buyout and later-stage growth equity investments in middle market companies across Shamrock’s target sectors, seeking to capture Shamrock’s proprietary middle-market deal flow, thematic approach, and expertise, and value creation capabilities by utilising the same strategy Shamrock has implemented since 2001.

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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.

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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.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 13, 2023

Private equity at the time was only about buyout and LBO. And whilst we were dealing with the same counterparty, the same pension fund, some of their constituents, some of the underlying boards, disagree on the approach to take there. Great opportunity for us. Are there some conflict of interest involved here?

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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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Pension Pulse

MARCH 3, 2025

Ralph Berg, chief investment officer at OMERS for nearly two years, brings a fresh perspective to pension fund management with a history and work pedigree different to what you might expect from a Canadian fund investment boss. Private equity is the final piece of the puzzle with investments dominated by the buyout program.

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