Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 26, 2024

Six of Canada’s biggest pension funds managing C$1.3 ” He added that HOOPP have been growing exposure to private credit and while more than half of its exposure is with external partners, the pension is increasing the proportion of direct private credit investments while continuing to work with partners.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Pension fund KPN is aiming to make an investment of between 5% and 7% of its €10bn assets in infrastructure, corporate and real estate debt by 2026, with half of that total going to impact investments – if the fund can identify suitable managers – according to a report by IPE.com.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

GSAM has committed $150m of its own capital to the fund, which will primarily target senior lending opportunities but retain the flexibility to provide junior debt when needed. The fund aims to generate net returns of 8% to 10% on an unlevered basis, with levered investments expected to deliver around 13%.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The report cites Nan Zhang, head of product implementation and alternative investment research at State Street, as noting that “private debt, especially floating-rate debt, typically benefits from rising interest rates,” and expects that private debt’s outperformance might diminish as the Fed continues with rate cuts.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund (CTPF), the oldest public retirement scheme in Illinois, is planning to makes its first foray into the booming private credit market with an initial allocation of up to $350m, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 3, 2025

The New Hampshire Retirement System (NHRS) has approved two major commitments to alternative investments, totalling a combined $100m, as part of its ongoing strategy to diversify its portfolio, according to a report by Pensions & Investments. NHRS has an existing relationship Top Tier. of NHRSs total assets, valued at $12.6bn.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The report cites unnamed individuals familiar with the situation as revealing that the pension fund, which oversees state pensions and other assets, aims to reduce its exposure to higher-yielding opportunistic credit strategies and shift focus towards more stable, mainstream direct lending.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The New York State Teachers Retirement System (NYSTRS) committed $400m (£315.55m) to private debt funds between October and December last year. The pension fund allocated $300m to the OIC Credit Opportunities IV fund, while the remaining $100m was committed to the Peninsula VIII, according to publicly available documents.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The Fund now counts pension funds, endowments and foundations, insurance companies, family offices, and fund of funds amongst its diversified investor base. AshGrove provides tailored credit solutions to small and medium-sized European companies in B2B software and services.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 5, 2024

Read more BlackRock Unveils Climate Policies for $150bn in Funds BlackRock Inc. is singling out funds with combined assets of $150bn for an extra screen designed. read more Australia’s Largest Pension Fund Shifts to Equities on Tech Boom AustralianSuper, the country’s largest pension fund, is shifting money into equities on the.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 20, 2025

Pension funds, such as the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, have also participated in the programme. A key feature of the scheme is its ability to fund reinsurance contracts through debt securities, known as catastrophe bonds (cat bonds).

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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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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

Buyout firms have long relied on controversial loans backed by equity stakes to enhance fund returns, but growing investor criticism has triggered a slowdown, according to a report by Bloomberg UK. This shift partly reflects a rebalancing of power, enabling LPs in private equity funds, such as pension funds to exert influence over GPs.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Private credit has become an integral part of the financing solutions available to support corporate growth and there is an increasing demand for debt capital from well-established and high-growth software and technology businesses, which typically have leading market positions, resilient customer base and strong financial fundamentals.”

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AltAssets

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

US pension fund giant the New York State Common Retirement Fund has agreed a hefty $4.6bn of new alternatives fund commitments. The post NY State Common Retirement Fund commits $4.6bn across PE, credit, secondaries and RE appeared first on AltAssets Private Equity News.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Infrastructure investment specialist Infranity has launched its commingled Enhanced Return Debt strategy which, together with co-investments, has already exceeded half of its target, reaching €1.585bn in capital commitments. Infranity’s AUM now exceeds €11bn.

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AltAssets

DECEMBER 13, 2023

AustralianSuper, the country’s biggest pension fund, has upped its exposure to private debt for US mid-market companies by $1.5bn through an expanded partnership with Nuveen investment arm Churchill Asset Management.

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Top 1000 Funds

JUNE 12, 2023

As Compenswiss looks to mandate new private debt managers, chief investment strategist Frank Juliano talks through due diligence processes at the Swiss pension fund. Recent high profile investor losses under score the importance of due diligence.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Triton Debt Opportunities (TDO), the opportunistic credit arm of European investment firm Triton, has held the final close of its third fund (TDO III) in excess of its original €1bn fundraising target, and 40% larger than its predecessor fund, which closed at €744m in October 2020.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 26, 2024

The private debt secondary market is primed for significant growth during 2024 in terms of both volume and quality of deals as motivated sellers take advantage of the growing pool of buy-side capital, according to a survey by Ely Place Partners.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 3, 2025

per-cent return across its funds in 2024 but fell short of its internal benchmark of 13.8 per cent, capping off a year that ended in turmoil when Albertas government dismissed the pension fund managers board and CEO. The private debt and loan portfolio gained 8.7 reported a 12.3-per-cent and 8.7%, respectively.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 22, 2024

As of June 10, over half of the top 25 most valuable hedge funds in the United States were exposed to Bitcoin via the spot ETFs. Even the State of Wisconsin Investment Board, an agency managing the state's pension fund , announced an investment in spot Bitcoin ETFs.

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AltAssets

AUGUST 31, 2023

New Mexico State Investment Council, a $44bn-managing pension fund investor, has picked private credit and a string of venture capital vehicles in its latest suite of fund commitments. The post New Mexico’s $44bn pension fund unveils latest VC, credit fund commitments first appeared on AltAssets Private Equity News.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Kevin Carmichael of The Logic reports Freeland eyes power of pension funds to lift Canadian economy: We’ve been conditioned to dismiss federal budgets and fiscal updates as political documents. The Government of Canada shouldn't be hinting at how or where Canada's large pension funds invest. Let's keep it that way.

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 31, 2024

Private debt and infrastructure are set to remain the preferred alternative asset classes among South Korean institutional investors for the second year running in 2024, according to a survey by The Korea Economic Daily. On global private debt, 67% of those surveyed described the asset class as fairly valued, while 13.3%

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

But the deal is also a gamble, considering investors have worried about BCE’s ability to afford its dividend and pay down debt. The integration matters because investors tend to judge the riskiness of a company’s debt load by comparing it to annual cash flows: “This is a great trade, in sports terms,” Mr. Bibic said.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 26, 2024

Bain Capital Credit, the firm’s global credit business with $45bn in AUM, has closed its latest debt vehicle, Bain Capital Middle Market Credit 2022 (MMC 22), with commitments totalling more than $1bn, according to the Wall Street Journal. The firm’s predecessor fund, Bain Capital Middle Market Credit 2018, closed with $975m in 2019.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 5, 2024

Blackstone has been active in the asset-based finance markets, leading debt packages for cloud computing firm CoreWeave Inc. The firm has also increased its exposure to credit card debt, by working with banks such as Barclays Plc on its credit card business as part of an ongoing arrangement. tied to assets including microchips.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 9, 2024

Annaly is really designed to be owned by total return investors who focus on asset allocation (such as insurance companies and pension funds). And being so large, the investment-grade-rated company tends to have easier access to capital markets (on both the debt and equity sides). annual pace over the last 29 years.

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Top 1000 Funds

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) Pension Fund, managing assets worth 1 trillion yen ($6.6 billion), is poised to increase investments in illiquid alternatives, including infrastructure private equity and debt aimed at maximizing returns.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The system works exceptionally well, yet in the past year, we have seen increasing calls to change this model and use pension funds as a policy tool. The system works exceptionally well, yet in the past year, we have seen increasing calls to change this model and use pension funds as a policy tool.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 5, 2024

billion, including debt, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. KKR will own Varsity Brands through its Americas private equity fund, the sources said, requesting anonymity because the deal has not yet been announced. Read more BlackRock Unveils Climate Policies for $150bn in Funds BlackRock Inc.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 25, 2024

In January, the fund said it would combine that real estate business with another specializing in lending against properties, a merger that’s expected to save the plan $100 million annually. The reorganizations change an approach that had made Canada’s pension funds powerhouses in the property market.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 14, 2024

The inflows have helped a slew of hedge funds and other money managers, including GoldenTree Asset Management, Sculptor Capital Management, Carlyle Group Inc. CLO equity — a small slice of the resurgent market for CLOs that bundle leveraged loans into bonds with varying safety ratings — is actually a form of deeply subordinated debt.

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Private Equity Professional

MARCH 21, 2024

Equity and debt investor Comvest Partners has closed its sixth flagship private equity fund, Comvest Investment Partners VI LP, with total capital commitments of $881 million. Like its earlier funds, Fund VI will… This content is for members only.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

In fact, Annaly is most appropriate for institutional-level investors with a focus on asset allocation , as it provides exposure to the mortgage debt market. Insurance companies and pension funds are the types of investors that might appreciate this REIT.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Several US pension funds are preparing to significantly increase their allocations to private credit in the 2025 fiscal year, highlighting a growing interest in the sector among institutional investors, according to a report by Banking Exchange.

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