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Blackstone, KKR, CVC curbed by China’s IPO clampdown

Private Equity Wire

This has left significant amounts of capital locked in China, with uncertain prospects for future returns. The difficulties in exiting investments have made some institutional investors, including pension funds, more cautious about allocating capital to the region.

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Wealthy Families Fuel $20bn Private Equity Buyout Wave

Private Equity Insights

Ultra-rich individuals and families worth more than $150bn are helping drive a resurgence in private equity buyouts, providing capital for some of the year’s biggest acquisitions to overcome a tough dealmaking environment. ASA in January with funding from Denmark’s Kirk Kristiansen dynasty, the owners of Lego Group.

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Ares Raises $1.7 Billion for Australia Private Credit Fund

Private Equity Insights

billion) for a credit fund for Australia and New Zealand, as it seeks to capitalize on opportunities created by banks retreating from leveraged lending. The Ares Asia Direct Lending fund, the company’s first leveraged buyout vehicle for the region, has deployed over A$1.04 billion) for a credit fund for Australia and.

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The Fantastical, Stupendous, Wonkariffic Tale of How Ample Hills Creamery Raised a $4 Million Venture Capital Round

This is going to be BIG.

He started Ample Hills Creamery four years ago with his wife, Jackie Cuscuna, after turning a home ice cream making hobby into a reality with a cart at Celebrate Brooklyn in Prospect Park. I'm always struck when I visit their two main locations in Gowanus and Prospect Heights how much sheer human joy is being created.

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BCI Sells $1-Billion of Private Equity Holdings to Ardian

Pension Pulse

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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Private Equity's Creative Wizardry Posing Systemic Risk?

Pension Pulse

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.

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Canadian LPs Selling PE Stakes in Higher-For-Longer Environment

Pension Pulse

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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