Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 16, 2025

The capital was secured from a broad range of global investors, including pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices. The $30bn raised comes amid record-breaking transaction volumes in the secondary market.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 17, 2023

Australia’s third-largest pension fund will officially open its first overseas outpost in London in November, a senior company official said, pushing for more private market investments as the sector outgrows the confines of home. Aware Super, with A$160 billion ($102 billion) in assets, will set up in the district of St.

Pension Funds 130

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 13, 2023

AP Pension has invested in a Morgan Stanley fund that aims to reduce carbon emissions by 1GT ahead of 2050. Danish pension fund AP Pension has invested in the Morgan Stanley 1 Gigaton fund, which aims to remove one gigaton of CO2-equivalent emissions from the Earth’s atmosphere by 2050.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 11, 2025

The oversubscribed fund attracted significant backing from both returning and new investors, highlighting strong demand for the middle-market private equity firms focused investment strategy. Pamlico targets equity investments between $50m and $200m in high-growth companies across North America.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 26, 2024

Six of Canada’s biggest pension funds managing C$1.3 Read more Canada’s Top Pension Funds Embark on Major Private Credit Expansion with C$1.3 Trillion in Assets Six of Canada's biggest pension funds managing C$1.3 Trillion in Assets Six of Canada's biggest pension funds managing C$1.3

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 12, 2024

Four of New York City’s five public employee pension funds, catering for teachers, police officers, firefighters and civil servants, are to up their allocations to private equity and other illiquid asset classes, as they look to boost investment returns, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Bill Ackman likes to focus on just a few companies at a time. His hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital, invests in high-quality businesses with stocks that Ackman feels have become mispriced relative to their intrinsic value. billion portfolio is invested in just three companies. As a result, over 45% of Pershing Square's $13.4

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Private Equity Insights

APRIL 8, 2025

Last year, the company generated $400m in revenue and $86m in EBITDA. Minority investors including Coatue Management are also set to sell their stakes in the deal. HealthEdge provides software solutions that help health insurers modernise operations, manage claims, and design benefit plans. Can`t stop reading?

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Major private equity firms have faced significant obstacles in selling or listing their China-based portfolio companies in 2023, with Beijings tightening restrictions on IPOs and a decelerating economy having left foreign investors capital effectively trapped, according to a report by the Financial Times.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 12, 2025

The country’s growing pool of pension funds and increasing corporate restructuring activities are drawing the attention of alternative investment firms worldwide. Restructuring will be a key driver of South Koreas M&A landscape as companies divest non-core assets and cash-generating units to strengthen financial stability.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As of December 31, 2024, it has invested in over 230 portfolio companies across various sectors. Designed to deliver stable yields with downside protection, the fund features lower investment minimums compared to traditional alternative investments. The fund was oversubscribed, reflecting strong investor demand.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

This includes Blue Origin (the space company founded by Bezos), United Launch Alliance ("ULA," the joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin ), Arianespace (the Airbus subsidiary), and even the tiny space start-up ABL Space Systems (which had not then, and still has not today, ever flown a rocket to space).

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 16, 2025

The fund, one of the largest in the firms history, will focus on high-growth software and technology companies across multiple sectors. The capital was raised from a broad investor base, including pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices. Source: PR Newswire Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 21, 2025

Investcorp has been chosen by Kumpulan Wang Persaraan (KWAP), one of Malaysias largest pension funds, to manage a $110m special managed account focused on private equity. KWAP, with over $36bn in assets, selected Investcorp from a field of more than 100 global private equity firms.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The fund focuses on real estate secondaries, acquiring stakes in mature funds, providing liquidity to limited partners, and recapitalising existing assets. Employee and limited partner commitments also contributed to the funds oversubscribed close. The fund targets innovative middle-market software companies across Europe.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 16, 2025

The fund aims to address the unique needs of companies undergoing transitions or managing complex situations. This $700m fund highlights the firms commitment to empowering middle-market companies with the financial tools they need to achieve long-term growth.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Enlightenment Capital Solutions Fund V exceeded its initial target of $600m and its original hard cap of $750m, reflecting strong investor demand from a diverse pool of investors, including pension funds, asset managers, endowments, family offices, and insurance companies.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 8, 2025

HBX Group, the Spanish travel technology company known for its Hotelbeds brand and backed by private equity firms Cinven, EQT, and Canadian pension fund CPP Investments, is gearing up for a 1bn ($1.04bn) initial public offering (IPO) in the coming weeks, according to a report by Reuters.

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AltAssets

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Frazier Healthcare Partners closed its $2.3bn Frazier Healthcare Growth Buyout Fund XI, exceeding its target in just six months The fund, known as FHGB XI, is focused on controlling interests in middle-market healthcare companies and secured strong backing from global limited partners, including public pension funds, financial institutions, sovereign (..)

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 21, 2025

Geographically, the fund has attracted a highly diversified group of investors, with LPs from 28 countries across the world, with notable growth in commitments from LPs in MENA, the Americas, Asia, the UK, the Nordics, and the Netherlands. Already 33% deployed, the fund has completed eight transactions in category-leading companies.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The loosening of credit conditions is likely to help private equity by easing borrowing constraints, which have slowed deal-making, while lower credit costs could also relieve pressure on portfolio companies that had taken on costly leverage amid high borrowing costs, smoothing the path for exits.

Leveraged Buyouts 93

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 16, 2025

The LP base includes major pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, financial institutions, and high-net worth individuals. million real time data points on more than 10,000 underlying companies.

High Net Worth Individuals 90

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 30, 2025

The Texas-based firm, known for investing in lower middle-market companies, raised more than twice the amount of its $300m predecessor fund.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In addition to strong European support, over 40% of Fund II capital comes from US-based investors. The Fund now counts pension funds, endowments and foundations, insurance companies, family offices, and fund of funds amongst its diversified investor base.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The fund attracted both new and existing investors, including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, insurance companies, consultants, and multi-family offices. Warren Spector, chairman of Balbec, highlighted the strong investor confidence in the firms approach, investment process, and analytics.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

International hedge funds and private equity firms are increasingly investing in Lloyds of Londons tax-exempt investment vehicle, as the 300-year-old UK institution expands its efforts to attract global investors, according to a report by the Financial Times. This has drawn increasing attention from alternative fund managers.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

Growth equity firm Valspring Capital has closed its first fund, Valspring Capital Fund I, exceeding its $255m target, with plans to focus on investments in growth-stage companies in the healthcare sector. Valspring Capital was founded in 2022 by a team that previously worked at Bain Capital Ventures.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 19, 2025

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports Ontario Teachers Pension Plan closes Hong Kong office: Ontario Teachers Pension Plan is closing its Hong Kong office and shifting some staff to Singapore, as the $256-billion pension fund looks to streamline its operations in Asia.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 24, 2024

According to a recent release, the fund raised in just four months and attracting a diverse range of investors from across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East includes public and private pension funds, asset managers, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, and financial institutions, among its investor base.

Capital 98

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The Fresno County Employees’ Retirement Association (FCERA) has approved $140m in new commitments to alternative investment funds during the fourth quarter of 2024, according to a report by Pension & Investments Online citing a letter from retirement investment officer Conor Hinds.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 1, 2025

For years, institutional investors like pension funds and insurance companies have driven growth in alternatives. The company provides investors access to real estate, private equity, infrastructure, hedge funds, and several other strategies. The company generated nearly $7.2 The company returned $5.6

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

Net-asset-value (NAV) loans, which layer additional leverage onto private companies already burdened with significant debt, have come under scrutiny, particularly when buyout firms use them to fund distributions rather than growth.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 25, 2023

What happened Shares of electric and fuel-cell-powered truck company Nikola (NASDAQ: NKLA) soared 11% through 12:15 p.m. ET this afternoon after Barron's reported that the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS, the second-largest pension fund in the U.S.) has increased its investment in the EV company.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The funds will focus on buyout and later-stage growth equity investments in middle market companies across Shamrock’s target sectors, seeking to capture Shamrock’s proprietary middle-market deal flow, thematic approach, and expertise, and value creation capabilities by utilising the same strategy Shamrock has implemented since 2001.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Kohlberg & Company (Kohlberg), a private equity firm specialising in middle market investing, has held the final closing of its 10th private equity fund, Kohlberg Investors X (Fund X), with $4.3bn in capital commitments. Kohlberg has also raised an additional $1.0bn in commitments for dedicated co-investment vehicles.

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PE Hub

JANUARY 16, 2024

Credit Fund IV's investors include state and county pension funds, corporate pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations and insurance companies. The post KSL Capital Partners wraps up fourth credit fund at $1.26bn appeared first on PE Hub.

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Africa Capital Digest

APRIL 6, 2025

The post South African Pension Fund Takes $40M Stake in Africa50 first appeared on Africa Capital Digest. To read this article, you must be a paid subscription member. Current members login here) [.]

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