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

JUNE 8, 2024

They’ve made a mark on Wall Street as go-to sources of capital for investment firms like KKR & Co. Germany’s Viessmann family, flush with cash after a major divestment, teamed up with KKR for its $3 billion acquisition of renewable energy firm Encavis AG announced in March. Source: Yahoo Finance Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

RoundShield, a private investment firm focused on European asset-backed private credit opportunities and capital solutions, has closed the RS Fund V with over $1bn in capital commitments – $150m above its fundraising target. Over 80% of the investors in Fund V have invested in a previous RoundShield fund.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Fund VI, which is the largest fund dedicated to investing across the food and agribusiness value chain, attracted a diverse array of real asset, private equity and impact-oriented investors, including pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments/foundations, family offices and other investors.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Sandbrook Capital, a private investment firm dedicated to transforming the world’s energy infrastructure, today announced the final closing of Sandbrook Climate Infrastructure Fund I at its hard cap of $1.5bn. Finance Can’t stop reading? Source: Yahoo!

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 9, 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.

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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 private credit fund A unit of Singapore’s state-owned investor Temasek Holdings Pte.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Earlier today, I spoke with Peter Letko and Daniel Brosseau of LetkoBrosseau Global Investment Management to set the record straight on where they stand on Canadian pension funds investing more in Canada. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s fall economic statement did not help.

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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.” The company leads the market in data centre connectivity, directly connecting over 542 today.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In Asia, for example, a large public pension fund made MSCI their primary risk analytics provider leveraging our highly competitive mix of applications, sophisticated algorithms, specialized data and managed services. In the third quarter, one of our pension fund clients in Europe ceded a $1.6

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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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Pension Pulse

JUNE 20, 2023

Prior to joining CPP Investments in 2008, Andrew worked for Fortress Investment Group investing in credit opportunities. 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.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 26, 2024

billion take private bid from investing firm Arkhouse and hedge fund Brigade earlier this month. Source: Yahoo Finance Can’t stop reading? Read more Canada’s Top Pension Funds Embark on Major Private Credit Expansion with C$1.3 The report comes after Macy’s rejected a $5.8 trillion ($965.47

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 26, 2024

Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up The fund, which has so far backed five businesses and expects to add another 50 to its roster, attracted commitments from endowments, foundations, pension funds, family offices and HNWIs. trillion ($965.47 trillion ($965.47

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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.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

An investment firm who had done some diligence on our business and wanted to back me and my team to spin it out, prevailed at the auction. Their structures are built by their customers who are the limited partners by and large mostly its pension funds. I just got to sit and wait. I was blessed. The story ended well.

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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

JULY 16, 2024

A higher cost of debt and slower economic growth have created a tough investing environment, pushing down the value of some private assets that pension funds own. Private credit has been one of the best-performing asset classes for some large pension funds in recent years, often earning double-digit percentage gains.

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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

JULY 4, 2023

Government concern about the pressure on Thames Water’s finances has been growing for several months. The company is still in talks with its shareholders about raising as much as £1 billion in fresh funds following a £500 million injection agreed last year. What happened to Bentley?

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 12, 2024

This platform is set to be the preeminent, one-stop infrastructure solutions provider for global corporates and the public sector, mobilizing long-term private capital through long-standing firm relationships,” said Bayo Ogunlesi, GIP Founding Partner, Chairman, and CEO. “We So why did BlackRock acquire GIP? Deficits matter,” Fink said.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 2024

These professionals had been trained to spot top private companies and PE funds, rather than to sell their investments. The success of this monetization plan should be part of the Harvard Business Review case study so other large pension funds and sovereign wealth funds can mimic it.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 31, 2024

CDPQ’s renewed trust in Fiera Capital, a pillar of Quebec finance, underscores our role as an investment leader,” added Maxime Ménard, president and chief executive officer of Fiera Capital Canada and Global Private Wealth. CDPQ’s renewed trust in Fiera Capital, a pillar of Québec finance, underscores our role as an investment leader.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Although Ziply generates cash flow, it is currently owned by private equity backers – including three Canadian pension funds – and they have put $2-billion of net debt on its balance sheet. telecom-focused private equity fund WaveDivision Capital, LLC. In all, BCE’s total debt level will remain roughly where it is now.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The fund held 1.65 Soros Fund Management, the investment firm founded by billionaire George Soros, took a new position of around 41,000 shares in the iPhone maker. 24) Norges Bank 25) Nordea Investment Management 26) Korea Investment Corp. million shares of Microsoft at the end of the quarter, up from 1.24

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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 mortgage real estate investment trust. a publicly listed U.S.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

In private credit, tightening credit conditions resulting from a handful of bank failures and rescues in the United States have opened up opportunities for non-bank players like pension funds, he said. Christine Dobby of the Toronto Star also reports CPP Investments posts 1.3% per cent return.

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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. in a joint transaction with private investment firm Searchlight Capital Partners.

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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. RITHOLTZ: The barbarians, I think. Yes, right. It was a relatively small group.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

That’s kind of unusual these days, you went straight to the Partners Group after you got a Bachelor’s in Finance from Brigham Young University and the Marriott School of Management, and you’ve stayed there your entire career. That seems to be inordinately lengthy compared to the way traditional finance operates.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Executive announcements Manroop Jhooty was appointed Senior Managing Director & Head of Total Fund Management. Mr. Jhooty joined CPP Investments in 2019. Invested €60 million into a syndicated credit-linked note with a leading global bank headquartered in Europe for a diversified portfolio of corporate loans.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 20, 2022

He started at a small boutique before going to Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers, and ultimately launching his own shop called Gramercy Funds Management. If you’re interested in what it’s like investing in emerging market debt, how that part of the investment firm has changed over the decades as the world itself has changed.

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