Private Equity Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

Adenia Partners (Adenia), a private equity firm focused on growth opportunities in Africa, has successfully closed its fifth fund, Adenia Capital V (Fund V) at its $470m hard cap. The significantly oversubscribed fund attracted commitments from new and existing investors globally.

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Private Equity Professional

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Shore Capital Partners has closed its inaugural Healthcare Advantage Fund , second Business Services Partners Fund (“Business Services Fund II”), and first Shore Search Partners Fund (“Search Fund”). The three new funds exceeded their targets and represent over $1.9 billion in combined capital commitments.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 17, 2025

Bloomberg reports OMERS hires partner of Temasek-backed fund as Global Head of Private Equity: The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System hired Alexander Fraser, a former partner of a Temasek-backed fund, as the global head of its private equity arm. billion ($19.1 billion) in assets.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The firm closed its sixth growth equity fund at $7.8bn in 2021. The IPO is anticipated to generate billions of dollars for General Atlantic, and its investors comprise some of the world’s most prominent pension funds and sovereign wealth funds. Bloomberg News reported last year that it was considering going public.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

Connecticut-based private equity firm Olympus Partners has sold Soliant Health, an education and healthcare staffing company, to private investment firm The Vistria Group for approximately $2.5bn, less than five years after acquiring the business for $612m, according to a report by CT Insider.

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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. Canadas largest pension notched a 3.8% 31, according to Bloomberg calculations.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This suggests that institutional investors, including investment banks and pension funds, are scrambling to take part in what could be the biggest IPO of the past couple of years. The report went on to note that the "sheer number of bankers involved. was itself a red flag."

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 19, 2025

The strategy, which first launched in November 2024, aims to provide debt financing to companies whose products and services seek to address critical environmental and social challenges across four key themes: climate, health, education and sustainable economic growth.

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American Investment Council

JULY 23, 2024

This week, the American Investment Council released the latest edition of our Public Pension Study , which found that private equity remains the top-performing asset class for public pension funds and their more than 34 million beneficiaries nationwide. public pension funds earn 10-year median return of 15.2%

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 17, 2024

In a press release, Vestcor noted these returns ensure its clients continue meeting their funding objectives, even through the period of higher inflation indexing requirements of the past few years. “We As the markets strengthened in 2023, the median return for these same Canadian defined benefit pension plans in 2023 was positive at 9.1%

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American Investment Council

MAY 10, 2023

Private Investment Works will feature: Blog posts highlighting private investment’s impact across industries and issue areas—including health care , energy , housing , small business , and pension funds. Case studies highlighting the real-life impacts of private investment. To visit the Private Investment Works website, click here.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 1, 2024

return in its fiscal year 2024, a period ending June 30, the fund announced on Tuesday. Like most other funds this year, that return was boosted by strong public equities returns, for CalSTRS, that asset class returned 19%. “A Over the past five, 10, 20 and 30 years, the fund has returned an annualized 8.5%, 7.7%, 7.6%, and 8.1%

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 4, 2024

If they invest exclusively in green assets and earn lower returns than the broader stock market benchmark, as was the case in 2023 for environmental, social and governance funds, they’re criticized for underperforming. Transition funds gain from turning brown firms into green ones.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 22, 2024

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports PSP chief investment officer Eduard van Gelderen to leave pension fund after 6 years: Public Sector Pension Investment Board chief investment officer Eduard van Gelderen is leaving the $265-billion fund after six years in the job. billion) pension fund.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

That's more than half of the fund's estimated total net assets. The third-party report, compiled by consultant LifeWorks, attributes the figure to Alberta's high employment rates, young population, and higher pensionable earnings, which it claims has meant the province has sent billions more into the CPP compared to what it has received.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 9, 2024

The exposure to this development JV complements our recent investment in Scape Core Program and will further diversify our APAC portfolio with defensive cashflows that are driven by the favourable demographics in the region and the demand for quality education in Australia.” What about Canada?

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 16, 2024

system, which is funded mostly by individual retirement accounts (IRA), 401(k)s and Social Security , came in 29th out of 48 countries, according to the Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index, released Monday. Therein lies the problem and irony, we have amazing pension funds but we can't cover everyone properly.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 3, 2024

This was a truly incredible interview because it's rare Ken Griffin shares so much and Nicolai asks pertinent questions as he's a former heavyweight hedge fund manager himself. we note that non-cyclical government (+8k) and private education & health care services (+95k) accounted for 59% of net new jobs recorded in April.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The rally also severely hit a number of quantitative hedge funds in China, people familiar with the matter said. China is planning to inject funds mainly raised from the issuance of new special sovereign bonds, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter. billion Appaloosa fund.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 22, 2024

Ian Bickis of The Canadian Press reports CPP Investments earned 8 per cent in latest fiscal year, net assets rose to $632 billion: Canada's biggest pension fund earned an eight per cent return last year, but significantly underperformed the 19.9 billion in net transfers from the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). for the fiscal year.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 25, 2024

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports Teachers' invests in portable battery company aiming to replace gas-powered generators: Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is leading a US$95-million funding round for Instagrid GmbH, a German maker of portable battery systems designed to replace gas-powered generators.

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American Investment Council

JANUARY 24, 2024

Read the full op-ed below: Small businesses are turning to private credit – but over-regulation threatens to cut off that lifeline By AIC President & CEO Drew Maloney January 24, 2024 Securing funding for a small business in the U.S. looks a lot different than it used to.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 15, 2023

The pension fund’s total net assets stood at $249.8 Chief investment officer Ziad Hindo says the fund saw positive returns across multiple asset classes including public and private equities, infrastructure, and credit over the first six months of the year. 1 the plan was fully funded with a $17.5-billion billion at Dec.

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American Investment Council

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This campaign included videos, displays, and educational resources aired on digital platforms nationwide. Private Investment Works featured: Blog posts highlighting private investment’s impact across industries and issue areas—including health care , energy , housing , small business , and pension funds.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 9, 2024

for 2023, led by global, emerging market equities: The Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology pension plan saw a net return of 9.5 1, 2024, the investment organization maintained a healthy funding level of 124 per cent on a going-concern basis — with $1.24 billion of funding reserves. Pensions are about trust.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 30, 2023

Artemis reports the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) grew ILS investments 35% in 2022: Large Canadian institutional retirement fund, the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP), grew its allocation to insurance-linked securities (ILS) investments in 2022, with the asset class nearing 1% of its overall portfolio by the end of the year.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 8, 2023

Scott Pelley: What did the educators at Walnut Middle School tell you? No pension fund wants to invest in private companies that abuse immigrant children. I used to invest in top global hedge funds back in the day and I trusted nobody. And if they're working, I just, I hope that they're able to work in a safe environment.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 31, 2023

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports Alberta pension manager AIMCo reports 4.5-per-cent per-cent gain on its investments in the first half of the year, but the pension fund manager is staying cautious against a backdrop of slow economic activity. reported a 4.5-per-cent AIMCo has earned an average annual return of 5.4

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 21, 2024

pension fund. As a global investment group managing funds for public pension and insurance plans, we work alongside our partners to build enterprises that drive performance and progress. Previously, she worked in New York , where she led real estate transactions as Senior Partner at TIAA, a major U.S.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 3, 2024

The pension pot is running dry and the country is running out of time to build enough of a fund to care for the growing number of elderly. Her husband had an accident at a construction site and their daughter's university education drained her savings. That is not the future 55-year-old Guohui Tang wants.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Our non-GAAP results exclude $276 million of expense in personnel related to a ruling in the Netherlands pension fund matter and $530 million of expense in G&A related to a draft decision by the Spanish Competition Authority. The liability we recorded in our Q4 results is for prior periods related to this pension plan.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Last, we note that non-cyclical employment from government and private H/C + education services accounted for 50% of the 142k nonfarm release this morning. There are several real-time proxies of the unemployment rate, but one of my favorites is from the Conference Board.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Hedge Funds Hedge funds are alternative investment vehicles that employ a diverse range of investment strategies and techniques to generate returns. They operate by pooling funds from multiple investors and aim to achieve positive returns regardless of market conditions. between 2015 and the end of 2021.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Hedge Funds Hedge funds are alternative investment vehicles that employ a diverse range of investment strategies and techniques to generate returns. They operate by pooling funds from multiple investors and aim to achieve positive returns regardless of market conditions. between 2015 and the end of 2021.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 6, 2024

But Ownership Works makes the case that the equity grants essentially pay for themselves through increased employee engagement and reduced turnover — as long as the initiative includes an effort to educate workers about business imperatives and incorporate their ideas for improving operations. We're not working night shifts. Still at C.H.I.,

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Indigo Marketing Agency

MAY 5, 2020

He is also the Executive Director of the PLANSPONSOR Institute, the education and training arm of PLANSPONSOR, as well as founding lecturer for The Retirement Advisor University (TRAU) at UCLA Anderson School of Management Executive Education. Pension funding has been at all-time highs. READ THE TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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