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

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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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

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. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

MORGENSON: It can be collateralized loan obligations, now it’s big private debt. Pension funds, perhaps, maybe aren’t growing as much as they need them to. But so you had these dividend recaps. And it has really done a lot to attract the high net worth retail customers into that. I want to get your take on it.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Committed US$150 million to American Industrial Partners Capital Fund VIII, which will primarily target value-oriented, control investments in the North American industrials sector. Leveraging these investment advantages are some of the strategies IMCO uses to enhance returns on behalf of our clients. Read his full comment here.

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