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Blackstone, KKR, CVC curbed by China’s IPO clampdown

Private Equity Wire

Theres a growing sense among PE investors that China may not be as systemically investable as once thought, said Brock Silvers, CEO of Hong Kong-based Kaiyuan Capital, highlighting the impact of regulatory pressures, economic deceleration, and weakened exit strategies on private equity operations in China.

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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. Bolt-on acquisitions have become a key strategy, representing 27-31.5% of disclosed deals between 2021 and 2024double the level seen in the mid-2010s.

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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. The solution isn’t having pension funds invest more in the existing opportunity set.

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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. The majority of OMERS fixed-income exposure is in the U.S,