Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Paine Schwartz Partners , a NYC-based private equity firm which specializes in sustainable food chain investing, closed its $1.7bn food and agribusiness-focused Fund VI. Fund VI is exclusively focused on sustainable investments in the food and agribusiness sector.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2023

IRA Capital, a private equity firm based in Southern California, has recently announced the launch of the IRA Healthcare Real Estate Fund. The closed-end fund, with a total capitalization of $500m, will focus on acquiring medical properties and senior housing assets across the United States. for its investors.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Two of Australia’s largest pension investors pledged to pour $19bn into UK and European markets in coming years, as the industry increasingly looks for opportunities overseas. trillion pension industry, known locally as superannuation, which has increased assets invested overseas in recent years. Finance Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 8, 2024

In April, Morgan Stanley’s infrastructure arm agreed to buy Milan-listed construction firm Salcef Group SpA with the Salciccia family, who have controlled it for decades. s family office unit, said he’s spent more time engaging with private equity investors within the past year than in his entire finance career of more than two decades.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up “AustralianSuper is resolute the value and future value of Origin is better in the hands of AustralianSuper members and other shareholders than a private equity consortium planning to shortchange them,” the pension fund said.

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Private Equity Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

Orion Resource Partners, a global investment firm specialising in metals and materials, has sold an 8% minority interest in Sweetwater Royalties, a private industrial minerals royalty company, to a Canadian pension fund for $100m. Source: Private Equity Wire Can’t stop reading?

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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 Insights

JULY 7, 2023

It comprises 17 African shareholders—including sovereign wealth funds, development finance institutions, banks, pension funds, asset managers, and retirement agencies—and two international Institutional Investors. Other entities are expected to join this first transaction.

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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 Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The firm has built a diverse team of nearly 30 people, including investment professionals from a number of leading private equity firms as well as executives with significant operational expertise, such as the former CEOs of Engie, Siemens Gamesa and Avangrid. Finance Can’t stop reading? Source: Yahoo!

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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. It’s easy enough to understand why Ares Cap would prefer to lend to a big firm than to a small- or middle-market one.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 30, 2024

We are thrilled to be entering into this partnership, on behalf of our pension fund client ABP and Asset Owner Partners, and we are eager to work closely with the euNetworks team as they continue to develop and further their strategic vision.” Billion Loan for AirTrunk Bid Private equity firm Blackstone Inc.

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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

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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Private Equity Wire

JULY 27, 2023

PE lagging on climate action, says new study Submitted 27/07/2023 - 12:09pm A new assessment of the fossil fuel policies of 15 of the largest private equity firms operating in North America and Europe, has found that the sector is lagging behind other investors in terms of action on climate change. Like this article?

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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

MAY 23, 2024

But what’s even more relevant, he says, is that with $88 billion now invested in a province with a GDP of nearly $500 billion, “the Caisse is the pension fund that is the most invested, in the world, in its local economy.” Seated at Emond’s left elbow, a powerful ally—Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard—comes to the Caisse’s defence.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 11, 2024

(KKR) and includes notable members such as 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. And notice it's powerhouse private equity firm KKR which is behind this latest deal to acquire NetCo.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 10, 2024

Private equity firms are already positioning to take advantage. Compared with the Savings & Loans crisis and 2008, we’re still in the first or second innings” when it comes to troubled assets, said Rebel Cole, a finance professor at Florida Atlantic University who also advises Oaktree Capital Management.

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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

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

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Low De Wei of Bloomberg News reports BlackRock, Aimco Back $800 Million Asia Infrastructure Fund: An Asia-focused infrastructure fund has raised $800 million from investors including funds managed by BlackRock Inc. and pension manager Alberta Investment Management Corp., amid renewed interest in the asset class.

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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. Were you always thinking about going into finance? What, what was it that made you say, Hey, this finance thing looks like it’s fun and interesting? Michael Fish is co-founder and CEO of American Securities.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

Pressure is also building from “limited partners” — the backers of PE funds — to start seeing more of a return from their earlier investments. That’s weighing heavily on the current round of fundraising by private equity firms, who are known in the industry as “sponsors” or general partners. “PE

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Private Equity Private equity is a form of alternative investment that involves investing in privately-held companies. It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. between 2015 and the end of 2021.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Private Equity Private equity is a form of alternative investment that involves investing in privately-held companies. It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. between 2015 and the end of 2021.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The unsubsidized, levelized cost of renewable power continues to outcompete fossil fuel generation in most jurisdictions, even after significant increases in capital and financing costs. IMCO still have a large exposure to public equities and stocks, which hurt it last year as the Fund lost 8.1%. million in 2022.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 12, 2024

Ben Werschkel of Yahoo Finance reports 'the energy transition' helps explain BlackRock's $12.5 billion bet on infrastructure: BlackRock's ( BLK ) plan to buy private equity firm Global Infrastructure Partners is a $12.5 Not just sovereign wealth funds, US, Canadian and European pension funds too.

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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

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

He started his career with KPMG on the Financial Institutions industry team, followed by eight years in the Corporate Finance group advising mid-market companies on M&A and financings. Gordon Brothers is a global advisory, restructuring and investment firm. Andrew holds a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University.

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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 Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

So I worked at a private equity firm, that middle market private equity firm Yale had money with. Public pension funds that manage hundreds of billion dollars can be manned by professionals that make $80 to $150,000 a year. And then I got wooed by a friend from business school to a larger one.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

KENCEL: “Barbarians at the Gate” and the financing. What most people don’t realize is that that deal had been hanging around as a potential transaction for a long time, and a lot of firms had looked at it, and it had conversations with the company. But, you know, these large firms were spinning off smaller private equity firms.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 2, 2024

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. They can't recycle capital in the same way a private equity firm can or raise new capital.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 17, 2023

This is the first large-scale transaction of its kind to be publicly announced, Bank of America’s global head of sustainable finance Karen Fang said in the statement. It “creates a financeable transferability product that will be used to scale the growth of renewable energy,” Fang said.

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