Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. Venture Capital Venture capital investments focus on financing startups and early-stage companies with significant growth potential.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Michael Fisch : 00:07:01 [Speaker Changed] Well, Barry, again, like Wall Street, it was all so much smaller in 1983, by my reckoning, the entire global institutional private equity business was less than a billion dollars of committed capital. Michael Fisch : 00:07:15 [Speaker Changed] The largest fund then was KKR with $175 million.

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Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Mergers and Acquisitions Debt 69

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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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. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company.

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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. Early nineties was the start of the modern high yield leverage buyout business done at scale.

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Debt Leveraging Banks Leveraged Buyouts 59

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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Leveraged Buyouts Buyout Pension Funds Mergers and Acquisitions 59

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

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Completed the secondary purchase of a US$100 million commitment to Oak Hill Capital Partners V, which focuses on investing across the industrials, media & communications and business services in the U.S. Committed €500 million to CVC Capital Partners IX, L.P., STAR Capital is a mid-market, U.K.-based

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

As the markets and the capital pools have gotten so much bigger. Pension funds, perhaps, maybe aren’t growing as much as they need them to. If you’re committing capital to private equity, you don’t care when they do the purchase. RITHOLTZ: Right, that’s pocket change today. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Finance Financing 59

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 Leemrijse, a former GP with Edgestone Capital Partners, joined Ontario Teachers in 2006.

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Pension Funds Buyout Leveraged Buyouts Stakes 59

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. We have to live off the capital base of what we have, and protect what we have, Berg says.

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