Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Ares Asia Direct Lending fund, the company’s first leveraged buyout vehicle for the region, has deployed over A$1.04 as it was delisted by private equity firm TPG Inc.; Allegro Funds as it acquired fuel retailer Gull New Zealand; and BGH Capital’s payments platform Pushpay, the firm said. has raised A$2.6

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 27, 2023

Sources previously told Reuters that Galderma intended to raise a large amount of fresh capital through its IPO to pay down debt, leaving it exposed to market volatility. billion of debt maturing in 2026, according to Fitch Ratings. The dermatology group posted $3.8 The dermatology group posted $3.8 The company has more than $3.5

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 19, 2024

private equity is about to get a big boost from Australia’s largest pension fund. AustralianSuper, which manages nearly US$200 billion, tells Axios that it plans to double its global private equity exposure over the next five years, with between 70-80% of those new dollars heading to the U.S.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 4, 2023

Canada’s OMERS and Dutch pension investor APG have agreed to buy Netherlands-based energy infrastructure solutions firm Kenter, according to a draft announcement of the deal seen by Reuters and confirmed by the purchasers. OMERS, which has C$124.2 billion ($93.67 Source: REUTERS Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 28, 2024

Australia’s largest pension fund AustralianSuper has written off over AUD1.1bn in equity and loans linked to US-based online education start-up Pluralsight, marking the fund’s largest single loss in its venture capital investments to date, according to a report by the Australian Financial Review.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

Yet, like its peers, Ares feels compelled to diversify into other asset classes, such as real estate, infrastructure, and private equity. The attractions of sticking with private credit are obvious. Yet even there, private credit plays an outsize role. percent, less than the firm’s industry-low ten-year average of 2.4

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 14, 2024

Mathieu Teisseire, Managing Partner and Head of Investor Relations at Eurazeo, expects Japan to be “the fastest growing investor base” in Asia over the next year, according to a report by Private Equity International. There is currently no set headcount target for the new North Asia branch.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Since inception in 2015, Vistara has raised over $500m, primarily from non-institutional sources such as family offices, entrepreneurs, and private foundations, predominantly based in British Columbia. read more Apollo Set to Make $6.26bn Bid for UK’s Pension Insurance Corporation Private equity firm Apollo Global (APO.N)

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Singapore- and New Delhi-based private equity firm Quadria Capital has marked the first close of its third investment vehicle. “We are on track to reach our final target for this fund, which puts us in good stead to execute our strategy and capitalise on a rich pipeline of opportunities.”

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This approach has expanded its assets under management more than fourfold to €246bn, through deals such as the €6.8bn acquisition of Barings Private Equity Asia in 2022, establishing a significant presence in Asia, and Exeter Property Group in 2021, specialising in industrial warehouses.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 30, 2024

The equity commitments follow the company’s recent debt refinancing announced in June and together will further euNetworks’ momentum as the company continues to scale and execute against its strategic priorities. Billion Loan for AirTrunk Bid Private equity firm Blackstone Inc.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2023

” The raise announced today comprises committed capital investments in energyRe LLC from Glentra Capital alongside co-investors Novo Holdings and Denmark -based pension fund PKA. The capital package also includes a mandated corporate debt facility to be arranged by Santander and Deutsche Bank.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Layan Odeh of Bloomberg reports CPPIB plows at least $5 billion into private equity in three months: Canada Pension Plan Investment Board poured at least $5 billion into private equity in the last three months of 2024 as the asset class regained appeal. 31, according to Bloomberg calculations.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 2023

The first is via direct investments, where it holds ownership stakes that vary from passive, minority positions, up to 100% control of private companies. The second is through private equity funds run by private equity firms, such as KKR and Blackstone. In the U.S., Democratic Sen.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 11, 2023

Paulina Pielichata of Pensions & Investments reports CDPQ works to pump $11.2 billion into European private markets: Canadian pension fund Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec has recently moved into its new London headquarters as it is working to deploy C$15 billion ($11.2 billion) in private markets across Europe.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 10, 2024

Private equity firms are already positioning to take advantage. PE firms want to take advantage of deep American discounts after office values fell by almost a quarter last year, more than in Europe, following the pandemic work from home shift. That will throw up some problems for credit investors, for example.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 11, 2024

(KKR), and includes a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), the Italian infrastructure fund F2i and the Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Italian Government. Now more than ever, we need to attract private investment or we risk seeing a permanent decline in Canadians' standard of living.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Regulators are pushing private equity firms to do a better job when it comes to valuing their assets. Carolina Mandl and Chris Prentice of Reuters report US SEC overhauls rules for $20 trillion private fund industry: The U.S. million Norweigans benefit from the Government Pension Fund.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

For decades the private equity model seemed unassailable, transforming the industry’s image from Barbarians at the Gate to crucial pillar of capitalism. Funds raised money, bought businesses, loaded them with debt, exited at a profit and convinced happy investors to do it all over again — at ever greater scale.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They’re one of the older private equity firms around, been been in business since 1994. There aren’t a lot of companies, and there aren’t a lot of people that have the historical perspective on the rise of private equity like Michael Fish does. They run over $27 billion in, in assets.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 6, 2024

Then she came across an investor presentation from a different universe: KKR, one of the world’s largest private equity firms. By that time, Mr. Stavros had decided to start an organization to promote his model more broadly, hoping to reach the 12 million people who work for companies that private equity firms own.

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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.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The statement, sent exclusively to the National Post , marks the first time Poilievre has explicitly addressed the issue of Alberta’s proposal to withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and set up its own pension fund. My take: This is a great deal for BCI and Searchlight, a private equity firm BCI seeded.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Swetha Gopinath of Bloomberg reports Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan to co-own financial advisor Max Matthiessen: Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) agreed to acquire a co-control stake in Stockholm-based financial advisor Max Matthiessen from private equity firm Nordic Capital Ltd. www.nordiccapital.com.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 23, 2023

It is for this reason that Canadian pension giant BCI finds itself in a rather enviable position. Under the leadership of global head of private equity Jim Pittman, the C$233 billion ($172.8 BCI's PE program is split almost evenly between funds and directs which now make up roughly 42% of the PE assets. billion; €158.2

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 20, 2023

Previously Andrew led the Americas Structured Credit and Financials team where he was responsible for investments in sub-investment grade structured credit and debt capital solutions for financial institutions, as well as the intellectual property investment strategy. Invested US$148 million in the senior secured notes of Auna S.A.A.,

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

. ~~~ BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, another extra special guest from the world of private markets, the Partners Group is probably the largest private equity firm you’ve never heard of, perhaps because they were originally headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. in Colorado.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 2, 2024

They're going to have trouble refinancing their debt when it eventually comes due. If you're a portfolio manager for a pension fund and you're looking to invest money, you're probably going to like that lower volatility, because you don't have to worry about the daily fluctuations in stock prices. Then looking at multifamily.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 20, 2023

In fact, virtually all of our drawdown funds we've launched in our history, have been profitable for our investors. Our performance has helped secure retirees' pensions, fund students educations, pay healthcare benefits, and protect and grow the savings of individual investors. So, I think cap rates have leveled off as well.

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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. Turning to the second key development, our expansion in private equity credit.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

You had a lot of the big buyout firms, they were doing the transactions in the ‘80s, in the early ‘90s. But, you know, these large firms were spinning off smaller private equity firms. So lots of folks work there that now run very large alternative asset management firms and credit arms of firms.,

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 10, 2024

According to Preqin data, global Private Debt AUM has grown from just $310 billion in 2010 to an estimated $1.5 With this context as a backdrop, we chatted with Andrew Edgell, Senior Managing Director & Global Head of Credit Investments at CPP Investments about how he sees private debt faring in the credit cycle ahead.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Victor has had a fascinating career, stood up the distressed debt department at Citibank before doing the same thing at Merrill Lynch a few years later. He also spent time at Sebus and More Capital before launching his own firm in 2001. Really just a fascinating person who has seen the distressed debt business from day one.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The Ontario fund’s strategy was innovative at the time, and paved the way for what is now known as the Canadian pension model. If the pension fund falls short, municipalities across the state could be forced to increase payments and cut city services to meet the pension obligations of more than two million Californians.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

In private credit, tightening credit conditions resulting from a handful of bank failures and rescues in the United States have opened up opportunities for non-bank players like pension funds, he said. So we kind of had headwinds and tailwinds in the portfolio, which is the point of diversification,” Graham said.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 5, 2024

Perhaps most famously you guys put on a CO bet, a collateralized debt obligation bet that was designed to do well if housing made some extreme moves and it was non-directional, it was hedged. 00:15:57 [Speaker Changed] The firm was built on finding white spaces. So it, it really has and, and pension funds, they’re on hold today.

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