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A Bull Market Could Be Here: AGNC Investment Isn't the Bargain You Think

The Motley Fool

This is vastly different from property-owning REITs, which are fairly simple to understand using kitchen table finance. Mortgage REITs buy mortgages that have been cobbled together into bond-like securities, often called collateralized mortgage obligations (CMO). Basically, you buy a property and rent it out.

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Fitch Warns Canadian Pensions Face More Pressure on Real Estate and Private Credit

Pension Pulse

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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Private Equity's Creative Wizardry Posing Systemic Risk?

Pension Pulse

NAV lenders sometimes charge interest in the mid to high teens, and some borrowers have used holiday homes, art and cars as collateral. One senior pension fund executive says they try to avoid managers who use NAV as they view it as firms being lazy about exits, adding that they’d prefer to crystallize losses than get distributions this way.

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HOOPP Gains 9.4% in 2023

Pension Pulse

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg also reports real-return bonds reap gains for HOOPP: Canadian inflation-protected securities known as real-return bonds are reaping gains for one of the country’s largest pension funds during a turbulent period for fixed-income markets. The pension fund manager’s total assets increased to $112.6-billion,

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Bain Capital’s Harrington Takeover: OHA and BMO Pave the Way with $1bn Financing

Private Equity Insights

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.

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CPP Investments Aims to Double Credit Holdings Over Next Five Years

Pension Pulse

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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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

When we’re talking about a structure of a financing and their senior mezzanine and junk, essentially, that’s the payout order in the event of a bankruptcy. And one thing I tried to say is that private equity has evolved from a form of finance into a form of business. I’ve been in private equity for 40 years now.