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. Many firms borrowed against their portfolio companies to sustain the private market boom while dealmaking dwindled.

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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. based software company servicing the education-end market.

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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

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. How can this happen? Where did oversight fail?

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) is just one of the numerous pension fund and major ILS investors we track in our directories here. First, read my comment covering HOOPP's 2022 results where the plan remains fully funded despite losing 8.6% last year.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 3, 2024

Her husband had an accident at a construction site and their daughter's university education drained her savings. So the former digger operator saw an opportunity in elderly care to fund her own old age. But the pension fund could run out of money by 2035, according to the state-run Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

So the theory was that’s great that you’re providing a loan, but if you can co-invest with them and get the upside of partnering with some of the most successful private equity funds in the United States, you know, a great way to enhance your returns. RITHOLTZ: We call that legal insider trading. And I said three things.

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