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

JULY 11, 2024

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. It gets back to the ability to grow the operating performance of the companies and making sure that returns” come from that rather than from “financial leverage,” he tells Bloomberg.

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Udu

MAY 24, 2023

Leveraged Buyout (LBO) An LBO transaction is an acquisition funded using a significant amount of debt where assets from both parties are used as collateral.

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Blackstone

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

With slower bank and leveraged loan growth, demand for partners in private credit is high. Private credit provided 65% of loans for the leveraged buyout (LBO) market in 2021 and 86% for the market as of year to date 2023. or not at all, substantially lower than average leverage found in regional banks, currently levered at 9.7x.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

They grew a business where they issued junk debt. 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. There was no junk debt available in the market.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

So, when I was in graduate school, I thought about all the different types of investing or advisory work I could do, and I, you know, really triangulated on distressed debt being the most interesting part of the, of the markets where I could participate in PWA Capital. Ritholtz ] 00:03:30 Yeah, Sandberg is a fascinating guy.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Invested £93 million in a debt facility to Vårgrønn, owner of a 20% stake in Dogger Bank Wind Farm, which is an offshore wind farm currently under construction, located off the coast of the U.K. It’s blamed for triggering bond selloffs, shifts in debt auctions and interest-rate policy. Based in the U.S.,

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