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Increased deal flow and lower discounts point to maturing private debt secondary market

Private Equity Wire

According to the survey, deal volume will increase by 50-100%, with $10-15 billion of closed transactions expected in 2024, with a broad spread of pricing, but competition in particular for high-quality senior loans pushing pricing closer to par.

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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

Last August, I passed the point at which I had spent literally half my entire life working in this asset class, having started at the General Motors pension fund doing institutional investments in venture funds and late-stage directs back in February of 2001.

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Five Questions for Vetting an Investment in a New or Emerging VC Fund

This is going to be BIG.

They’re trying to get exposure and diversification at the same time, while potentially seeing co-investment deal flow. A lot of VC fund pitches—and I know this because I used to vet VCs for a living as an institutional limited partner at a pension fund—sound the same.

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New Mountain Capital Announces $825 Million Net Lease Real Estate Fund

Private Equity Insights

Investors in the Fund, which were a mix of numerous new investors as well as existing New Mountain Net Lease investors, include pension funds, insurance companies, asset managers, endowments, family offices and high net worth individuals.

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

Private Equity Insights

The combination of BMO’s broad investment banking platform and OHA’s private credit expertise has delivered enhanced deal flow and financing flexibility while adding value for borrowers and private equity sponsors. OHA is the private markets platform of T.

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Shamrock Capital raises $1.6bn for sixth PE flagship fund and inaugural small cap fund

Private Equity Wire

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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AIMCo's CIO Talks Total Portfolio Approach, Private Credit and Risk

Pension Pulse

“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.