Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 26, 2024

Apollo is one of a number investors, both wealthy individuals and professional money managers, that have reached out in recent weeks to BDT & MSD Partners, the investment bank advising the Redstones, according to people familiar with the discussions. Private equity firms RedBird Capital Partners and KKR & Co.

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Private Equity Wire

MAY 24, 2024

New York-based banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co is actively seeking to acquire a private credit firm to strengthen its private capital operations within its $3.6tn asset management division, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 8, 2024

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. They’ve made a mark on Wall Street as go-to sources of capital for investment firms like KKR & Co.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Hahn & Company, a private equity fund operator, has attracted about 1 trillion won ($749 bn) in institutional funds for its first domestic funding. These alone have raised funds amounting to about 2 trillion won. read more SkyKnight Capital Closes Fund IV at $1bn Hard Cap SkyKnight Capital, L.P.

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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? They tend to be owned by private equity firms with stronger capitalizations.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 12, 2023

“Infrastructure remains an attractive asset class,” said James Chern, chief investment officer and managing partner at Seraya Partners. Most major players have yet to put focus on capital deployment in the mid-market infrastructure space in Asia. The mid-market valuation is typically 30% lower than large cap deals in Asia, U.S.,

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

Prior to joining QIC, Sulaiman served as Investment Manager at UK mid-market private equity firm Graphite Capital and as Investment Executive at investment firm CDC Group (now British International Investment). She began her career in investment banking at the Royal Bank of Canada in London.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 27, 2023

Over the past decade investors increased their allocation to less liquid private market assets, including buyout funds and real estate, in the hunt for higher returns. The trend turbocharged the growth of secondary funds that offer the likes of pension funds the chance to exit such investments early if they need to.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Oak Hill Advisors (“OHA”) served as a Lead Arranger for the unitranche financing to fund Bain Capital Private Equity’s (“Bain Capital”) acquisition of Harrington Industrial Plastics (“Harrington”) from Nautic Partners. and globally.

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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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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 8, 2023

Mr. Hill will join OMERS in September, the public pension fund announced Wednesday, and report to Ralph Berg, who took over as the chief investment officer in April. He also spent 25 years in investment banking at Japanese dealer Nomura Securities, German lender Deutsche Bank AG and U.S.-based

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Pension Pulse

MAY 23, 2024

It’s late April, and Emond is appearing at a hearing at Quebec’s National Assembly, where parliamentarians are zeroing in on a perceived dilution of the share of assets the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec has invested at home, from 26.1% CPP Investments, meanwhile—Canada’s largest pension investor, with the Caisse at No.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 31, 2024

It is not monolithic and includes such varied enterprises as pension fund investment managers such as AIMCo , insurance companies, investment banks, broker dealers, hedge funds, mortgage investment companies – and still others.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Chern, an ex-Morgan Stanley banker, still sees a “golden period” of at least a decade with “minimal opposition,” noting there’s just a handful of infrastructure-focused funds in the region, compared to hundreds of its peers focused on areas like property and venture capital. “We

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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.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan chief investment officer to depart at the end of December: Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan chief investment officer Ziad Hindo is leaving the pension fund manager at the end of the year after five years in the role.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

Investment banks were not really a known concept in the area where I grew up. They were starting to want to attract international capital. Capital rules were changing. I don’t have to worry about flying around the world collecting capital from LPs. Insurance companies have very long-dated capital.

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APRIL 23, 2024

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

For decades the private equity model seemed unassailable, transforming the industry’s image from Barbarians at the Gate to crucial pillar of capitalism. Funds raised money, bought businesses, loaded them with debt, exited at a profit and convinced happy investors to do it all over again — at ever greater scale.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 4, 2023

Ministers and regulators are said to be concerned that Britain ’s biggest water supplier, which has 15 million customers in the capital and along the Thames Valley , may be unable to service its huge debt pile. billion in Canadian funds. What happened to Bentley? stake, is the first to announce its support. "We

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The market in general is looking for direction, and that’s going to come from the Federal Reserve,” said Charles Ashley, portfolio manager at Catalyst Capital Advisors. That's the LTK Capital Management (Leo Thomas Kolivakis) house view and I don't care if you agree or disagree with me, I'm giving you my best trading advice here.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 22, 2024

Last year, Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) hired investment banks to find a new owner for Toronto-based LifeLabs , according to four sources familiar with the sales process. Two of the sources said OMERS picked New York-based Evercore Group LLC to run the process and also brought in a Canadian bank.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And that was very important because when this was the dawning of what is now a big analyst program across the country in all banks and investment banks. Michael Fisch : 00:07:15 [Speaker Changed] The largest fund then was KKR with $175 million. Then I think you’re gonna find this to be a fascinating conversation.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

He also spent time at Sebus and More Capital before launching his own firm in 2001. And proprietary trading is using the firm capital to kind of buy it and also to distribute it, to syndicated it more broadly at the same time. That whole distressed debt department at city 00:06:31 [Speaker Changed] Banks are wanting to sell?

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Mike Wilson has been with Morgan Stanley since 1989, rising up through the ranks of institutional sales, trading, investing, banking to eventually becoming Chief Investment Officer and Chief US Equity Strategist. So I was really investment banking. What was that experience like? What was your trading career like?

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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2023

And so for the longest time, I actually thought that my unconventional background, I wasn’t an Ivy League student, I didn’t train at an investment bank, I wasn’t working for a hedge fund, I started my career as a bank teller. RITHOLTZ: It’s funny that you say the phrase view the world differently.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 13, 2023

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Mathieu Chabran, Tikehau Capital , is below. Mathieu Chabran is the co-founder of TIKEHAU Capital, a Paris-based alternative asset manager. I found this to be really a fascinating conversation about approaching the world of investing from a different angle. We were 28, 30 respectively.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Steven Klinsky, New Mountain Capital , is below. Eventually, Steve takes his experience and knowledge and stands up his own firm, New Mountain Capital, which is one of the largest private equity shops in the world. It was between corporate law and investment banking. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

And what was fascinating about Drexel and kind of the diaspora, if you will, of that era was that we all basically went out looking to take that experience, particularly in high yield and kind of buyouts and financing, and do it at either banks or other investment banks. KENCEL: It’s the investment banking affiliate.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I found David Layton, CEO of the firm, to be very thoughtful and very much different in how he thinks about risk-reward liquidity, various market sectors, processes, just the whole gestalt of we are a steward of capital with our clients, and we are aligned with those clients. Look, our parents all had pension funds.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In addition to BMW and Volkswagen AG , Northvolt’s top investors included Goldman Sachs’s asset management arm, Denmark’s biggest pension fund ATP, Baillie Gifford & Co. funds and a number of Swedish entities. The company needs as much as US$1.2

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

And we said, let’s just take a little detour here and make sure we understand the credit risk of these things before we sort of travel, start making markets and banking and, and, and really making these a core part of our business. 00:17:19 Can we at Amherst make a $300,000 home investible to a global financial investor?

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 24, 2024

They were prioritizing the dividend in the way they allocate capital for the business. Banks have still been able to pay really ultra low rates to depositors on checking accounts and savings accounts, but then turn around and lend those borrowings or that capital at much higher rates for the first time in really 15 years.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

officials allege: Senior executives at Quebec’s provincial pension fund manager tried to win contracts by paying Indian officials hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes and interfered with corruption investigations in the United States, American prosecutors allege. The charges filed by the U.S. “As and international investors.”

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 29, 2025

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It’s just a fascinating conversation about looking at the world from both bottoms up and top-down, as well as thinking about what valuations are like, how likely are macro events, the impact you’re getting not just the return on capital, but as famously said in fixed income, a return of your capital. That’s great.

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