Pension Pulse

JULY 3, 2024

“The investment horizon for these assets is long and the ability to rebalance in the future is hampered,” warns Marlene Puffer, who joined AIMCo as CIO in 2023 from Canada’s railway pension fund CN Investment Division. This approach ensures AIMCo taps sufficient risk but also protects against embedding too much connected risk.

Portfolios 59

Portfolios Due Diligence Pension Funds Debt 59

The Motley Fool

JULY 14, 2023

We expect our acquisition of Kreos Capital to close in the third quarter of this year, adding venture debt capabilities and further bolstering BlackRock's global credit franchise. In May, we capitalized on the improved conditions for debt issuance, issuing 1.25 billion of 10-year debt at a coupon of 4.75%.

Asset Management 130

Asset Management Assets Banks Debt 130

Pension Pulse

JANUARY 12, 2024

BlackRock has a broad network of global corporate relationships as a long-term investor in both their debt and equity. The over $150 billion combined business will seek to deliver clients market-leading, holistic infrastructure expertise across equity, debt and solutions at substantial scale.

Pension Funds 59

Pension Funds Debt Exchange-Traded Funds Assets 59

The Motley Fool

APRIL 18, 2024

The firm itself could not be in a stronger position with minimal net debt and no insurance liabilities, allowing us to distribute $4.7 Borrowing spreads have tightened significantly and the availability of debt capital has increased significantly. billion to shareholders over the past 12 months through dividends and share repurchases.

Assets 130

Assets Debt Banks Capital 130

The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The long-term connectors and our relationships span many years as holders of company debt and equity. A number of significant whole portfolio institutional mandates funded in the quarter, and we continue to be chosen for large global solutions. We've been building out our evergreen and credit interval funds here in the United States.

Assets 130

Assets Leveraging Mergers and Acquisitions Mutual Funds 130

Pension Pulse

AUGUST 15, 2023

The growth came as the fund earned a 12-month total-fund net return of 4.8 The pension fund, which invests to pay for the retirement for 336,000 working members and pensioners, noted that as of Jan. 1 the plan was fully funded with a $17.5-billion billion funding surplus. per cent and 8.6 billion).

Pension Funds 52

Pension Funds Assets Liabilities Stakes 52

The Big Picture

JUNE 13, 2023

” We learned leverage finance, we learned real estate debt, we knew high yield, we knew opportunistic investment and we’re like, it’s never too late, it’s never too early and we decided to go with a huge $4 million AUM that we had gathered from friends and family. You were effectively into the real stuff.

Banks 59

Banks Asset Management Assets Capital 59

The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

In some cases, the big banks weren’t quite as interested in financing those deals. So we created basically a mid-market lending platform that ultimately spun out some of the most talented and capable folks, you know, within the private debt world today. Private debt AUM has grown to $1.3 There were a handful of us, right?

Private Equity Firms 59

Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Finance Financing 59

The Motley Fool

JANUARY 12, 2024

With a strong common culture of serving clients with excellence, together, we will deliver for our clients a holistic global infrastructure manager across equity, debt, and solutions. BlackRock has developed a broad network of global corporate relationships through many years of long-term investments in both debt and equity.

Assets 130

Assets Shareholders Asset Management Capital 130

The Motley Fool

APRIL 12, 2024

In March, we issued $3 billion of debt to fund a portion of the cash consideration for our planned acquisition of GIP. Ken, I do believe as an industry, the large pension funds that have an overallocation of private equity and the rotation of money in the private equity area has slowed down precipitously.

Performance Fees 130

Performance Fees Assets Shareholders Leveraging 130

The Motley Fool

JULY 15, 2024

With a strong common culture of serving clients with excellence, together with GIP, we will deliver for our clients a holistic global infrastructure manager across equities, debt, and solutions. BlackRock has developed a broad network of global corporate relationships through our many years of long-term investments in both debt and equity.

Assets 130

Assets Liabilities Leveraging Asset Management 130

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. The credit market has not seen a lot of primary supply, and we have not seen a lot of deals.

Buyout 52

Buyout Pension Funds Investing Assets 52

The Motley Fool

JANUARY 30, 2025

And as BIP has continued to scale, it has in turn enhanced the firm's intellectual capital, relationships, and deal flow, supporting our growth in other areas, including our $90 billion infrastructure and asset-based credit platform, our infrastructure Secondaries business and our dedicated energy and energy transition focused funds.

Management Fees 130

Management Fees Assets Capital Funds 130