Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 26, 2024

Six of Canada’s biggest pension funds managing C$1.3 The overall non-bank finance sector is worth $218 trillion and accounts for nearly half of financial assets globally, according to the Financial Stability Board. Read more Canada’s Top Pension Funds Embark on Major Private Credit Expansion with C$1.3

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva, has launched its third fund under the Long Term Asset Fund (LTAF) regime with the creation of the Aviva Investors Multi-Sector Private Debt LTAF (MSPD LTAF).

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The fund, already 45% deployed, marks a major milestone in the firms asset-based finance strategy. Specializing in high-yield, short-duration investments, the fund focuses on receivables, small business, consumer, and hard assets. He emphasized the firms disciplined approach in identifying the most attractive opportunities.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The fund attracted both new and existing investors, including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, insurance companies, consultants, and multi-family offices. He noted a growing demand for Balbecs asset-based and specialty finance strategies as investors seek diversification.

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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. This shift partly reflects a rebalancing of power, enabling LPs in private equity funds, such as pension funds to exert influence over GPs.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 18, 2024

baby boomers are a generation that's shaped society at every turn, and their personal finance habits are no different. This shift is revolutionizing how boomers manage their finances, making it easier to keep tabs on investments and spending in real time. Image source: Getty Images With 76.4 million individuals in the U.S.,

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 5, 2024

A $30 billion fund launched by the United Arab Emirates with the declared goal of funneling billions of dollars into climate finance is readying its next round of investments. The UAE says the model has the potential to unleash $250 billion of climate finance by 2030, much of which will be channeled into developing markets.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Allianz Global Investors and Dutch development bank FMO have agreed one of the largest “blended finance” funds on record, raising $1.1bn to invest in loans that help emerging and frontier countries meet sustainable development targets. The money raised through blended finance funds is a fraction of what’s needed.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 5, 2024

Read more BlackRock Unveils Climate Policies for $150bn in Funds BlackRock Inc. is singling out funds with combined assets of $150bn for an extra screen designed. read more Australia’s Largest Pension Fund Shifts to Equities on Tech Boom AustralianSuper, the country’s largest pension fund, is shifting money into equities on the.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2023

BaltCap, the largest private equity fund manager in the Baltics, held the first closing of its €200m target BaltCap Infrastructure Fund II (BInF II). The fund is an Article 9 fund under the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation. The cornerstone investor of BInF II is the European Investment Fund (EIF).

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The partnership was established with a $1bn commitment to Blue Owl’s credit platform and will initially focus on its technology lending strategy, which provides financing solutions for several technology and software companies, Mubadala said in a statement on Monday. “We

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 26, 2024

MMC 22, Bain Capital Credit’s fourth fund in its private credit strategy, is intended to provide flexible, junior debt to middle market companies with EBITDA between $25m to $75m, located across the US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The firm’s predecessor fund, Bain Capital Middle Market Credit 2018, closed with $975m in 2019.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

billion) for a credit fund for Australia and New Zealand, as it seeks to capitalize on opportunities created by banks retreating from leveraged lending. The Ares Asia Direct Lending fund, the company’s first leveraged buyout vehicle for the region, has deployed over A$1.04 Billion for Australia Private Credit Fund Ares Management Corp.

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PE Hub

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Earlier in November, Butterfly Equity, Equilibrium Capital and a US public pension fund agreed to provide project financing for Pacifico Aquaculture. The post Fish: It’s what’s for dinner, as PE firms like Butterfly and Equilibrium test the waters appeared first on PE Hub.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 17, 2023

Novo Holdings, a leading international life science investor, today announced it has participated in a $290m strategic financing round of Sangon Biotech. Tracey Wang, CEO of Sangon Biotech, said: “I am very pleased that the financing round attracted this many reputable institutional investors.

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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. The British investor has closed.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2023

OrbiMed, a global healthcare investment firm, is pleased to announce it has raised more than $4.3bn in commitments for its latest private investment funds, including OrbiMed Private Investments IX, OrbiMed Asia Partners V and OrbiMed Royalty & Credit Opportunities IV.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 5, 2024

Given the funding needs for financing data centers and energy transition, there’s room to grow to hit the $25 trillion mark, Michael Zawadzki, Blackstone Credit and Insurance’s global chief investment officer said Friday in an interview with Bloomberg Television. tied to assets including microchips.

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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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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The system works exceptionally well, yet in the past year, we have seen increasing calls to change this model and use pension funds as a policy tool. The system works exceptionally well, yet in the past year, we have seen increasing calls to change this model and use pension funds as a policy tool.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

BaltCap, one of the largest private equity fund managers in the Baltics, has held the first closing of its €200m target BaltCap Infrastructure Fund II (BInF II), a 20-year successor fund focused on renewable energy generation and energy demand reduction.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 16, 2024

Derek Decloet and Christine Dobby of Bloomberg report Canada taps ex-BOC governor to examine how pension funds invest: Canada’s finance minister has asked former central bank governor Stephen Poloz to examine ways to entice its pension funds to invest more in the country. The government is also setting aside $4.1

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 5, 2024

While retail investors like you and I were the primary buyers over its 15-year history, the pending approval of a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) holds the potential to unlock billions of dollars from Wall Street and other institutions, allowing investors to add the cryptocurrency to pension funds, 401(k)s, and other investment accounts.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 23, 2024

Brosseau and his firm helped bring national attention to the debate over where Canada’s pension funds should be investing by penning an open letter last month to Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland , urging policymakers to alter the rules for pensions to “encourage them to invest in Canada.”

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Kevin Carmichael of The Logic reports Freeland eyes power of pension funds to lift Canadian economy: We’ve been conditioned to dismiss federal budgets and fiscal updates as political documents. In this way, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s fall economic statement was more interesting than she indicated it would be.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 25, 2024

trillion Canadian funds: Almost no major Canadian pension manager has been spared. The largest fund, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, lost five per cent on its property portfolio in its last fiscal year as the commercial real estate slump deepened.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It had received commitments from both existing and new investors that include institutional investors, insurance and pension funds, development finance institutions and family offices across the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific, it said. IFC committed about $40m to the new fund, with a co-investment sleeve of up to $30m.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Oak Hill Advisors (“OHA”) served as a Lead Arranger for the unitranche financing to fund Bain Capital Private Equity’s (“Bain Capital”) acquisition of Harrington Industrial Plastics (“Harrington”) from Nautic Partners.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 29, 2023

This is vastly different from property-owning REITs, which are fairly simple to understand using kitchen table finance. For example, insurance companies and pension funds might find mortgage REITs a good portfolio fit, with diversification and total return (which assumes dividend reinvestment) driving the decision process.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Star Mountain Capital, LLC (Star Mountain), a private credit and secondaries specialist investment firm with approximately $3.75bn in assets under management, has closed its Value-Added Direct Lending Fund IV above its $750m LP capital target at approximately $1.2bn. There was strong support from new and longstanding clients from 25+ U.S.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 12, 2024

average annualized total return, according to data from Ned Davis Research and Hartford Funds. Unless you work in a business's risk management or finance divisions, you may never have encountered this business. It even has an "outsourced chief investment officer" segment to handle defined benefit pension funds for clients.

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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

percentage points above the Secured Overnight Financing Rate and at a discounted price of 98 cents on the dollar. percentage points above the Secured Overnight Financing Rate and at a discounted price of 98 cents on the dollar. Billion for Australia Private Credit Fund Ares Management Corp. Read more Ares Raises $1.7

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Verdane Capital XI has closed at its €1.1bn hard cap, almost doubling the size of its predecessor fund which closed at €610m. The oversubscribed Fund received strong support from new and existing investors, including a re-up rate of more than 100%. This fundraise allows Verdane to continue addressing the growth funding gap in Europe.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

James Hirai of Bloomberg reports Dutch pension funds send shockwaves through euro swap market: Dutch pension funds are plowing cash into long-dated swap contracts, according to strategists, upending one of this year’s most popular trades. The funds, by far the region’s largest with more than €1.5 in a client note.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 7, 2024

The firm’s fund provides liquidity solutions for private equity-owned companies. CSSO III acquires direct minority stakes in private equity-owned portfolio companies, finances M&A growth and participates in concentrated continuation vehicles.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Reuters reports that Canadas BCI to buy BBGI infrastructure fund in US$1.32-billion largest listed infrastructure funds with a portfolio which includes projects such as bridges and tunnels, as well as education and health care facilities. is available on Yahoo Finance: BBGI Global Infrastructure S.A. billion ($1.32-billion),

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 1, 2024

Global alternative asset manager Ares Management Corporation, has closed its latest private credit fund at $34bn, making its the largest private credit fund ever raised, and reflecting a of high level investor demand for the asset class. ”

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