Private Equity Wire

MARCH 5, 2025

The Los Angeles City Employees Retirement System (LACERS) has approved significant commitments totalling $367m to private credit and private equity funds, as outlined in the materials presented at its 25 February board meeting, according to a report by Pension & Investment Online.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

Question is: Can it become a one-stop shop for pension funds, endowments, insurers, and sovereign wealth funds eager for exposure to every major alternative-asset class — without diminishing its private credit franchise? In 2022, Ares’ direct lending tied to such buyouts totaled $26.4

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 17, 2025

Bloomberg reports OMERS hires partner of Temasek-backed fund as Global Head of Private Equity: The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System hired Alexander Fraser, a former partner of a Temasek-backed fund, as the global head of its private equity arm. OMERS Private Equity manages approximately C$27.5 through the end of 2024.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Middle-market private equity and credit investment firm Comvest Partners has closed its sixth flagship private equity fund, Comvest Investment Partners VI (CIP VI), with total capital commitments of $881m. CIP VI attracted commitments from foundations, insurance companies, pension funds, asset managers, consultants and family offices.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 21, 2013

Ten years ago, I was an analyst for the General Motors pension fund, working on fund investments into leveraged buyout funds and venture capital deals. I literally wrote the investment memo for GMs investment into Accel IX, otherwise known as the "Facebook Fund." (I

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Fund III will continue Ara’s strategy of investing in the decarbonization of the industrial economy, the greatest source of carbon emissions globally.

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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.

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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

MAY 1, 2024

pension fund manager sells $1-billion of private equity holdings to French buyout firm Ardian: British Columbia Investment Management Corp. is selling more than US$1-billion of stakes in private equity funds to French buyout firm Ardian SAS, tapping the secondaries market for private assets to free up cash for new investments.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 16, 2024

A higher cost of debt and slower economic growth have created a tough investing environment, pushing down the value of some private assets that pension funds own. Private credit has been one of the best-performing asset classes for some large pension funds in recent years, often earning double-digit percentage gains.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Europe Direct III buyout fund attracted strong support from a diverse group of global investors, including both existing clients and new investors, spanning pension funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, and family offices.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

Whereas Kleinman went in hard with his warning that “everything is not going to be okay” for buyout firms, Stavros joined in with the concession that his industry may have gotten “too creative” lately. When buyout groups do look to sell, PIKs, NAV loans and other kinds of excess baggage are creating obstacles. “It

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

I’ve also had the benefit of working with a large commercial asset manager – on the listed side – that taught me about the value of ESG data: not just in terms of collecting and analysing it, but also being able to leverage data for product development and stewardship activities.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 2024

In late 2022, the system explored a sale of its PE fund stakes that was reported to be worth more than $1 billion, before ultimately deciding to hold off as markets deteriorated and pricing outlook appeared bleak, as affiliate title Buyouts reported at the time. billion to an investor group led by Goldman Sachs in 2018.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 11, 2023

But as the fund moves more into private assets, the collaborative model focuses not just on internal management but how CalSTRS can partner with external providers in innovative ways to achieve similar benefits. “As Reading the interview with Scott Chan above, you'd think CalSTRS was a Canadian pension fund, part of the Maple 8.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board , for example, which invests on behalf of the Canada Pension Plan , sold a diversified portfolio of limited partnership fund interests in mostly North American and European buyout funds to French private investment house Ardian for around $2 billion on Nov.

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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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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. Leveraged Buyouts In contrast, there are leveraged buyouts (LBOs) that involve acquiring established companies with the aim of restructuring or improving their operations to enhance profitability.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. Leveraged Buyouts In contrast, there are leveraged buyouts (LBOs) that involve acquiring established companies with the aim of restructuring or improving their operations to enhance profitability.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 22, 2024

Ian Bickis of The Canadian Press reports CPP Investments earned 8 per cent in latest fiscal year, net assets rose to $632 billion: Canada's biggest pension fund earned an eight per cent return last year, but significantly underperformed the 19.9 per cent return of its reference portfolio. Invested US$50 million in Zeus, alongside EQT.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 15, 2024

The pension fund had solid returns from its portfolio of public stocks, which gained 10.4 But stocks make up only 19 per cent of the pension fund’s assets after it shifted billions of dollars from equities into government bonds and credit investments, seeking to take advantage of high interest rates. dollar to earn a 4.4-per-cent

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Pension Pulse

MAY 25, 2023

The firm’s experienced teams enable high net worth individuals and families as well as, medium to large sized companies, pension funds and trustees, asset managers, and their investors to focus on their core activities by choosing ZEDRA as their trusted partner. billion in capital across buyouts and $4.4 Corsair has invested $9.4

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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. billion) public pension fund has spent much of the past decade using the secondaries market to cultivate a comparatively liquid portfolio of illiquid assets. billion; €158.2 Asia-Pacific represented 9.7

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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. Other categories affecting our total cost profile include taxes and expenses associated with various forms of leverage.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But, but I think if I was to go back through my career, that moment in time, you know, when there is this big wave coming, because it was the start of the high yield market, the leverage loan market grew dramatically, you know, from 200 billion in the mid nineties to $5 trillion today, high yield and leverage loans. And still growing.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But there wasn’t an active m and a business, there wasn’t a leveraged finance business. But there came to be, in certain situations, buyers that were bootstrap, buyers that were, we would call ’em today, they then leveraged buyout financiers. And, and we wanted to have relatively modest leverage.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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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. Private equity at the time was only about buyout and LBO. CHABRAN: Maybe because I come from a leverage finance background, as I told you, I tend always to focus on the downside. I think it was a great training. I think we learned a lot.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 22, 2024

Sarah Rundell of Top1000Funds reports UN pension fund slashes equity and pushes into impact and venture: The United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF) recently reduced the allocation to equity in its $92.5 We’ve been in private equity for 13 years but have always focused mainly on large buyouts,” he says.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Private Equity Invested US$206 million to acquire positions in two fund-of-fund vehicles that are invested in buyout, growth buyout and venture funds across a wide range of industries, primarily in the U.S. company developing a closed-loop supply chain for lithium-ion batteries, through an equity funding round.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

They’re the largest listed buyout firm in Europe. He is the chief executive officer of the Partners Group, which is Europe’s biggest listed private equity and buyout firm, with a market cap of about $25 billion. Leverage levels have come down materially. LAYTON: Leverage levels have changed. in Colorado.

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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. You had a lot of the big buyout firms, they were doing the transactions in the ‘80s, in the early ‘90s. Because you can’t lever it, you can’t lend it six times leverage today when the rates are 11 percent versus 6, right?

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 6, 2025

The funds strong reception highlights investor confidence in Eurazeos mid-large buyout strategy, which focuses on high-growth businesses with global potential. With EC-V, Eurazeo strengthens its capacity to support ambitious businesses, leveraging its expertise to drive long-term growth in high-potential sectors.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 24, 2025

Pension funds are calling for more transparency from private equity firms, seeking clearer and standardised reporting on fees and returns, in new guidelines published by the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA), according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 25, 2025

Changing investment approach amid market challenges Ontario Teachers shift comes as Canadas largest pension funds, known as the Maple Eight, are reconsidering their investment strategies. These funds collectively manage about $2.3 You dial back the risk by doing it with a partner rather than doing it on your own, he said.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 5, 2024

IMCO CEO Bert Clark posted a comment on LinkedIn going over the Canadian model and other thoughts from the Fiduciary Investors Symposium: I recently had the pleasure of speaking at Top1000 Funds’ Fiduciary Investors Symposium Toronto 2024. And Canadian pensions have adopted some of their best practices and applied them to pension investment.

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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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