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Apollo and ICG expand into South Korea as private equity gains momentum

Private Equity Insights

The country’s growing pool of pension funds and increasing corporate restructuring activities are drawing the attention of alternative investment firms worldwide. Lower interest rates are expected to further fuel leveraged buyouts, setting the stage for an active 2025, Deloitte reported. increase from the previous year.

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IMCO's CEO Bert Clark Reflects on the Canadian Model and More

Pension Pulse

IMCO CEO Bert Clark posted a comment on LinkedIn going over the Canadian model and other thoughts from the Fiduciary Investors Symposium: I recently had the pleasure of speaking at Top1000 Funds’ Fiduciary Investors Symposium Toronto 2024. And Canadian pensions have adopted some of their best practices and applied them to pension investment.

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OMERS CIO Ralph Berg Shines a Light on Infrastructure and More

Pension Pulse

After creating Borealis Infrastructure in 1999, initial investments were made in modest amounts of $5 million to $30 million per project, but the pension funds appetite for such opportunities grew. and Canada, even though 54% of the funds assets are U.S.-based. Plus, the pricing and risk is more attractive to us.