Private Equity Insights

JUNE 14, 2023

GrowthCurve Capital has held the final close of its inaugural private equity fund, GrowthCurve Capital Partners I, with total capital commitments of $1.4bn for the fund and related co-investment vehicles. Today, GrowthCurve has over 25 professionals, in addition to an accomplished strategic advisory board with deep industry experience.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 15, 2023

As with its predecessor equity funds, TA XV will target equity investments in high-quality businesses capable of delivering sustainable growth within the technology, healthcare, financial services, consumer and business services sectors.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Mubadala Capital, the wholly owned alternative asset management subsidiary of Mubadala Investment Company, has closed its fourth private equity fund, MIC Capital Partners IV (Fund IV), securing total commitments of $3.1bn, and surpassing its initial target of $2bn.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Law firm Kirkland & Ellis advised Vitruvian on the formation of the fund, which attracted commitments from over 200 global institutions, including sovereign wealth funds, public and corporate pension funds, funds of funds, banks, insurers, endowments, foundations, and private wealth clients.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 12, 2023

General Atlantic is also active in consumer, health care and financial services. The firm closed its sixth growth equity fund at $7.8bn in 2021. While perhaps best known for its successful track record backing tech firms that also included Uber Technologies Inc.,

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 28, 2024

The Fund’s investor base consists of new and returning LPs, including public and private pension funds, insurance providers and financial service investors across Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 3, 2024

Fund V continues Adenia’s long-term investment strategy of making control investments in medium-sized companies across Africa with proven business models that demonstrate ample room for operational and ESG improvements.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 4, 2024

He was the long-time chair of the Toronto Port Authority and, earlier in his career, advised a committee of Canada’s Senate on issues that included the creation of major public-sector pension funds such as the Public Sector Pension Investment Board. Still, I will wait to read the final report to see what Mr. Poirier has to say.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 2, 2024

UK financial services firms Phoenix Group and Schroders are to launch of a new private markets investment manager, Future Growth Capital (FGC), which will aim to deploy up to £2.5bn over three years from Phoenix Group, with an initial £1bn commitment.

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Private Equity Professional

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

KKR’s Ascendant strategy was launched in 2022 to invest in North American-headquartered middle-market companies in seven industry verticals: consumer, financial services, health care, industrials, media, software, and tech-enabled services.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The short answer is because it's their land and financially beneficial for all parties< Moreover, this will lead to strong economic development over many years for the MCK as we transition to a decarbonized economy. Almost 10 years experience encompassing Board Director, Investment Committee and Financial Service industry roles.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 19, 2025

Arcmont Asset Management has secured mandates totalling 475m for a new Impact Lending strategy from pension asset manager APG, and TIAA, one of the worlds largest institutional investors and a provider of retirement and financial services. Arcmont is owned by Nuveen Private Capital (NPC).

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 10, 2025

BCI manages a portfolio of diversified public and private market investments on behalf of its British Columbia pension fund and institutional clients. BCI Private Equity actively manages a C$31 billion global portfolio of privately held companies and funds with the potential for long-term growth and value creation.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A report by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada found that between 2003 and 2017, Canadian pension funds invested $25 billion in the region. The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board has had an on-the-ground presence on the continent for over a decade, and currently has offices in Singapore as well as Hong Kong and Mumbai.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 15, 2023

Goodwin Procter LLP served as legal counsel for TA XV. Like this article?

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 14, 2023

GrowthCurve Capital closes inaugural fund at $1.4bn Submitted 14/06/2023 - 10:19am GrowthCurve Capital has held the final close of its inaugural private equity fund, GrowthCurve Capital Partners I, with total capital commitments of $1.4 billion for the fund and related co-investment vehicles.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Swetha Gopinath of Bloomberg reports Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan to co-own financial advisor Max Matthiessen: Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) agreed to acquire a co-control stake in Stockholm-based financial advisor Max Matthiessen from private equity firm Nordic Capital Ltd. from Astorg Partners SAS.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 2, 2024

Private equity is the asset class that takes the most risk at a pension fund. CDPQ’s net assets have increased by C$108 billion over the past five years, 38 percent of which stemmed from growth in its private equity portfolio, according to the pension’s 2023 annual report.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Jennifer L of Carbon Credits reports Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan buys majority stake in KKR’s Australian carbon project developer: A Canadian pension fund Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) has agreed to acquire KKR’s stake in a leading Australian carbon markets platform GreenCollar. billion as at June 30, 2023.

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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 per cent return of its reference portfolio. Invested US$50 million in Zeus, alongside EQT.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 28, 2024

CPP Investments, the public pension plan’s asset manager, has about $36 billion under management in Latin America, or about 5% of its global portfolio, in sectors from electric utilities and sanitation to real estate, telecoms and logistics.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

7IM adds to the more than C$10bn in direct investments OTPP has in the financial services sector and the wealth manager will sit within its roughly C$60bn private equity portfolio. Financial services is a core sector of focus for Ontario Teachers’, which already has direct investments worth more than C$10 billion in the sector.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 6, 2023

She joins the firm from CPP Investments where she has spent almost 12 years in roles including, most recently, leading the consumer sector as private equity managing director for the pension plan investment operation. After graduating University of Toronto with a B.Sc.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 25, 2023

Benefits Canada reports BCI investing in financial services provider, building Brisbane apartment complex: The British Columbia Investment Management Corp. is acquiring a minority stake in a corporate consultant and fund administration provider. PBS Frontline also examines who is establishing trusts in South Dakota.

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Tucker Advisors

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The one insurance company that required a bailout, AIG, suffered its heaviest losses from its financial services division, a business segment that most insurance companies do not have. It’s the same basic income stream that pensioners receive from corporations who moved pension funds into indexed annuities.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

In just the past few weeks, the House Financial Services Committee and the House Ag Committee passed the landmark crypto market structure bill and the stablecoin bill with bipartisan support. It's an important stepping stone to getting people access to better financial services. I think that it's an important use case.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Over the past 36 years, Burgiss has created greater private asset transparency while serving institutional investors such as pension funds, endowments, foundations, and family offices. It is also something that is resulting in longer sales cycles as well as investors and broader financial services firms navigate these regulations.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Alternative investments, such as real estate, private equity, hedge funds, commodities, private credit, structured notes and cryptocurrencies, introduce a new level of diversification that can help protect your portfolio during market fluctuations.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Alternative investments, such as real estate, private equity, hedge funds, commodities, private credit, structured notes and cryptocurrencies, introduce a new level of diversification that can help protect your portfolio during market fluctuations.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 13, 2023

In fact, it's not even a strategy, it's a surefire way to pass the risk on to another fund that couldn't give a damn about ESG and I would go further and claim pension funds that are not engaging with oil & gas companies are neglecting their fiduciary duties. Anyway, back to UPP and Barb.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

Next, a top Canadian pension fund manages billions of dollars in investments. I think we're going to see AI pioneering in places like pharmaceutical, financial services. Appian's Data Fabric will integrate dozens of different systems into a comprehensive customer management application for tens of thousands of agents.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

Public pension funds that manage hundreds of billion dollars can be manned by professionals that make $80 to $150,000 a year. Certainly in financial services, we recognize now that there are all these microaggressions that have been in place for decades. SEIDES: Yeah. And that spans endowments, foundations.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Look, our parents all had pension funds. LAYTON: — sources of funds for our industry is going to change as a result of that. It’s been primarily pension, historically. And this isn’t dissimilar from what’s happened in prior eras within the financial services sector.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Anyway, let me get on to covering this week in pensions. First, Shahir Gindo wrote a special to the Globe and Mail on why Canadian pensions funds should invest more in domestic assets to boost the economy. I want to confront the topical complaint that pension funds allocate something like 4% of our capital to domestic stocks.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Operational Highlights Corporate developments Ranked first among the world’s leading public pension funds by Global SWF when measuring annualized returns between fiscal years 2013 and 2022 (Global SWF Data Platform, December 2023). home improvement financial services company.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It also offers advice on the best mix of assets for a given fund, greater access to private- market investing in asset classes such as private equity and infrastructure, and risk management across the whole portfolio. IMCO issued a press release stating it will add $2.6

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