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 5, 2025

The fund attracted both new and existing investors, including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, insurance companies, consultants, and multi-family offices. Warren Spector, chairman of Balbec, highlighted the strong investor confidence in the firms approach, investment process, and analytics.

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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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The Motley Fool

JULY 26, 2023

In a financial and political landscape filled with uncertainties, one asset has emerged as a beacon of hope for investors seeking a truly decentralized and resilient asset: Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). With its unique attributes and growing acceptance, the cryptocurrency is proving that it deserves a spot in every investor's portfolio.

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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 Source: The National News Can’t stop reading?

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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. Source: Yahoo!

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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. That’s backed up by a $25m guarantee from the MacArthur Foundation.

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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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The Motley Fool

JULY 29, 2023

Bull markets generally lead to extreme investor enthusiasm. With some Wall Street commentators saying we are now back in bull territory, long-term investors should probably take a step back and temper their excitement. And right now, dividend investors eyeing AGNC Investment's (NASDAQ: AGNC) massive 13.8%

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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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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 5, 2024

Understanding the halving and its impact on crypto prices Maintaining a long-term perspective when evaluating investments is crucial, but it doesn't mean investors should dismiss short-term developments. Image source: Getty Images. In April, it will undergo its fourth halving. But that is changing. and Bitcoin wasn't one of them.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The 20-year successor fund aims to contribute to increasing the resilience of the region with a focus on renewable energy generation, energy demand reduction, and social as well as transport infrastructure investments in the Baltics and Poland. The fund is an Article 9 fund under the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation.

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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. and globally. Autodistribution, Brenntag, and IMCD.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 7, 2023

Prominent African and global institutional investors have signed on to the new $500 million Africa50 Infrastructure Acceleration Fund – a move described as an unprecedented milestone for Africa. The fund is the first private vehicle infrastructure platform launched by Africa50.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 12, 2024

Here's why a few Fool.com contributors believe investors should take a closer look at these top-notch dividend stocks. Unless you work in a business's risk management or finance divisions, you may never have encountered this business. Marsh & McLennan has delivered incredible results 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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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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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

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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Private Equity Insights

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Allegro Funds as it acquired fuel retailer Gull New Zealand; and BGH Capital’s payments platform Pushpay, the firm said. Financing of leverage buyouts in Australia and New Zealand has typically been done through banks due to the lack of an institutional capital market for high-yield borrowers. and Citigroup Inc. has raised A$2.6

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Oliver Haill of Collective Investments also reports BBGI Global Infrastructure agrees takeover by Canadian pension fund: BBGI Global Infrastructure SA (LSE:BBGI) has received a 1.6 billion all-cash offer from Canadian pension fund manager British Columbia Investment Management (BCI). BBGI Global Infrastructure S.A.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 25, 2024

In January, the fund said it would combine that real estate business with another specializing in lending against properties, a merger that’s expected to save the plan $100 million annually. The reorganizations change an approach that had made Canada’s pension funds powerhouses in the property market.

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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 Insights

JANUARY 26, 2024

In a statement on Sunday, the retailer said it had reviewed the unsolicited offer, but found that Arkhouse and Brigade had not provided sufficient information to address its concerns around their ability to finance the proposed transaction. Source: Yahoo Finance Can’t stop reading? trillion ($965.47 billion) in assets have.

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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 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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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 8, 2024

Wealthy clans that built their fortunes in industries from children’s toys to household boilers have been co-investors on nearly $20 billion of listed company takeovers this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Source: Yahoo Finance Can’t stop reading? stake in the supermarket to existing owners.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 14, 2023

for its investors. Over the past 13 years, IRA has established itself as one of the most active healthcare real estate investors in the country. It invests capital for its own account and on behalf of co-investment partners, including pension funds, institutions, and family offices.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Consistent with their predecessors, these new funds enable OrbiMed to invest globally, from seed stage for start-ups incubated by OrbiMed through growth capital opportunities. OrbiMed works closely with its portfolio companies to provide tailored financing solutions, which can include equity, credit and royalty-based financing.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Investors showed frustration with the news by sending BCE’s stock 9 per cent lower in early trading on Monday. But the deal is also a gamble, considering investors have worried about BCE’s ability to afford its dividend and pay down debt. internet provider Ziply and pausing dividend hikes: Bell Canada parent BCE Inc.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

per share bid remains but some investors can stay invested in the energy markets business that would be owned by Brookfield. Finance Can’t stop reading? Under the new terms, the A$9.43 A meeting in Sydney to vote on the original bid on Thursday has been delayed until Dec. 4 to consider the new offer, Origin said earlier.

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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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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The healthcare-focussed investor hit the close at approximately 60% of the base amount of $800m, it said in a statement on Wednesday. “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 Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Fund IV provides strategic financing to assist high quality, established private businesses finance acquisitions and organic growth, often capitalizing on the aging demographic universe of business owners looking to exit at potentially compelling valuations for buyers.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

Question is: Can it become a one-stop shop for pension funds, endowments, insurers, and sovereign wealth funds eager for exposure to every major alternative-asset class — without diminishing its private credit franchise? The attractions of sticking with private credit are obvious. “The

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The group has announced it has secured financing commitments from four additional lenders – Korea Investment, KDB Asia, Sona Asset Management, and Canadian pension fund The Public Sector Pension Board.

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