Private Equity Insights

APRIL 5, 2024

Private equity firm Advent International has agreed to buy Canada’s Nuvei NVEI.TO The deal, valued at $34 per share, will take Nuvei private almost four years after the company was listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The buyout of Nuvei, which has a market capitalization of nearly $4.42

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

Buyout firms have long relied on controversial loans backed by equity stakes to enhance fund returns, but growing investor criticism has triggered a slowdown, according to a report by Bloomberg UK. Many firms borrowed against their portfolio companies to sustain the private market boom while dealmaking dwindled.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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 now we call it the private equity industry. Did you see like what was the fixed rate world like on the private side when things were dirt cheap? Sold a ton of it.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 2, 2024

Moving into 2023, he set a goal of reducing the pension’s PE allocation to 18 percent within three years, primarily by selling companies and exiting fund stakes via the secondaries market. These professionals had been trained to spot top private companies and PE funds, rather than to sell their investments.

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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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The Big Picture

JUNE 13, 2023

Private debt, private credit was unheard of in Europe until the banks effectively went into this massive liquidity squeeze and all those asset managers had to step in and fill this void. Private equity at the time was only about buyout and LBO. Great opportunity for us. How do you look at those?

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Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 2024

Moving into 2023, he set a goal of reducing the pension’s PE allocation to 18 percent within three years, primarily by selling companies and exiting fund stakes via the secondaries market. These professionals had been trained to spot top private companies and PE funds, rather than to sell their investments.

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