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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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 1, 2024

The new fund, Ares Private Credit Fund VI (APCF VI), which surpassed its initial fundraising target, will focus on providing flexible and innovative financing solutions to middle-market companies across North America and Europe, emphasising senior secured loans, subordinated debt, and other private credit instruments.

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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.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The fund invests in North America and Europe , supporting the growth of companies primarily within the clean power generation, transmission, storage, energy efficiency and industrial decarbonization sectors, as well as associated services and supply chain businesses. Finance Can’t stop reading? Source: Yahoo!

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 6, 2023

times, it has the strongest finances of any of its closest peers. Essentially, during the lean times, it can take on debt to keep funding its business and dividend while it waits for better days. When energy prices recover, as they always have historically, the company reduces its leverage to prepare for the next downturn.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

With one of Europe’s most flexible investment mandates, Verdane can leverage deep thematic expertise to invest in Europe’s most ambitious growth companies, with a genuine partnership mindset. Read more Verdane raises €1.1bn fund Verdane Capital XI has closed at its €1.1bn hard cap, almost doubling the size of its predecessor.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

And third, we bolstered our total liquidity, which now stands at more than $4 billion and further diversified our capital sources and reduced our leverage well off of peak levels through more than $2 billion of dispositions and JVs and over $1 billion of equity issued under our ATM. Our reported leverage ratio at the quarter end was 6.8

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 31, 2024

It is not monolithic and includes such varied enterprises as pension fund investment managers such as AIMCo , insurance companies, investment banks, broker dealers, hedge funds, mortgage investment companies – and still others. The term NBFI captures a wide range of enterprises and therefore defies a common regulatory approach.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 3, 2024

“The investment horizon for these assets is long and the ability to rebalance in the future is hampered,” warns Marlene Puffer, who joined AIMCo as CIO in 2023 from Canada’s railway pension fund CN Investment Division. The size of the asset-based finance market is about $5 trillion to $10 trillion, he said.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This approach is yielding profitable growth and operating leverage. As clients increasingly turn to BlackRock, we believe this will result in sustained market-leading organic growth, differentiated operating leverage and earnings and multiple expansion over time. With that, I'll turn it over to Larry.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 10, 2024

Today, CDPQ published its Sustainable Investing Report for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023: CDPQ actively contributes to advancing sustainable finance, and once again this year the report presents concrete actions taken to drive the organization’s impact. Following are some highlights. Further evolve our approach.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

This spread was supported by $165 million of adjusted free cash flow available after dividend payments to fund investments. These spreads are based on our short-term nominal cost of capital that measures the year-one dilution from utilizing external capital and excess free cash flow on a leverage-neutral basis to fund our investment volume.

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American Investment Council

OCTOBER 11, 2023

highlights the industry’s role as a critical source of financing for small and medium sized businesses. Investments made by public and private pension funds constitute approximately 31 percent of private credit funds’ total assets, the report also notes. Private credit was responsible for adding 1.6

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Blackstone News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Gilles Dellaert Named Global Head of BXCI, Dwight Scott Named Chairman NEW YORK – September 13, 2023 – Blackstone (NYSE: BX) announced today the integration of its market-leading corporate credit, asset-based finance, and insurance groups into a single new unit, Blackstone Credit & Insurance (BXCI).

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 31, 2024

trillion of assets under management supporting defined benefit and defined contribution plans, PGIM serves more than half of the world's 300 largest pension funds. It's looking at opportunities for flow or new sales financing, as well as third-party blocks. As a market leader with nearly $0.5

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The Motley Fool

JULY 14, 2023

Our platform strategy has delivered scale and operating leverage through time, with 240 basis points of margin expansion in the last 10 years. Markets have improved since the end of 2022, and we aim to be disciplined in driving profitable growth by prioritizing investments to propel our differentiated organic growth and operating leverage.

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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. Having said that, we do, as I commented, believe that there is nice operating leverage, positive operating leverage in Burgiss given what they do.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Iñaki Echave, senior managing director at OTPP said: "We intend to leverage our sector expertise and flexible capital to accelerate 7IM’s growth organically and through M&A." We intend to leverage our sector expertise and flexible capital to accelerate 7IM’s growth organically and through M&A. Aquiline declined to comment.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The deal extends most of our debt maturities to 2029 and beyond, injects $1.325 billion of net new financing into the business and gives us access to a new approximately $1 billion revolving credit facility to support our operations. We do not have any required or planned discretionary pension fund contributions in 2024.

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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. Research by CEM Benchmarking shows that costs can play as big a role in returns as active management, particularly for smaller funds. million in 2022.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

I didn’t really know much about the world of finance. So how do you then go from tax and audit practice to finance and investing? Quote, “The world of finance isn’t as complicated as newcomers expect. In order to compete and win in so many things today in finance, you have to be super specialized.

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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. leveraged loans and emerging market bonds. Andrew holds a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University. Headquartered in Boston, U.S.,

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Previously she was Chief Investment Officer at various state pension funds, including Maryland and Hawaii. So how does that relate to finance? And so they were both in finance and I decided that must be the absolute last thing I ever wanted it to do. So you end up going from the fund of funds to pension funds.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. Venture Capital Venture capital investments focus on financing startups and early-stage companies with significant growth potential. between 2015 and the end of 2021.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. Venture Capital Venture capital investments focus on financing startups and early-stage companies with significant growth potential. between 2015 and the end of 2021.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

His latest book could not be more timely, “The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest,” it’s all about the history of interest rates, money lending, investing speculation, funded by banks and loans and credit. According to Chancellor, interest is the single most important feature of finance, both ancient and modern.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Sri Anantha, senior director, finance and investor relations. Next, a top Canadian pension fund manages billions of dollars in investments. Or is it just going to be a factor of revenue leverage? Please go ahead. It's aiming to double its portfolio size.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 5, 2024

I graduated economics with, with a lot of coursework in accounting and finance. You’ve talked about pensions are now facing illiquidity issues because private equity and venture capital have gates up a lot, a lot of long-term tie up. So it, it really has and, and pension funds, they’re on hold today.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

Coinbase Wallet provides a way for retail customers to access this functionality while storing their own funds via self-custody. We provide an integrated trading, custody, and financing solutions through Coinbase Prime. Now moving on to our institutional customers. So, those are some of the things on the horizon.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 23, 2024

To build on this momentum, we have enhanced our solutions for the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation while developing a new solution for the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive or CSRD. It then, of course, links to asset managers, both for those institutional mandates and for mutual funds.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Much of their language is going to be around leverage and accounts receivable and gross margin. Their structures are built by their customers who are the limited partners by and large mostly its pension funds. It's not actually created by the private equity firms, it's created upstream by the pension funds.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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? But there wasn’t an active m and a business, there wasn’t a leveraged finance business. You get a Stanford MBA. What was the original career plan?

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The Big Picture

MAY 23, 2023

That’s not the thought process of someone who wants to go into finance. RITHOLTZ: When did it enter your mind that, hey, this finance stuff looks kind of interesting? Maybe it’s leverage, maybe it’s a tele protection, maybe it’s an overlay hedge, maybe it’s any number of these things. RITHOLTZ: You went to law school.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You graduate Emory University with a degree in finance. You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. No, I’m — RITHOLTZ: You beat me by an hour, RIEDER: You know, I think, I would say to young people who come into the business, you know, why are you coming into finance? You get an MBA from Wharton.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

RITHOLTZ: So it just seems like the healthiest way to think about what is unavoidable, yet so many people within the world of finance, kind of dance around it, try not to deal with it. is about broadening access to knowledge, capital and well-being by leveraging existing networks and protocols, and building trusted brands.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 18, 2024

We're buying as well as financing several firms that design, build, and service data centers. We recently financed a cloud infrastructure business supporting AI development. And then, again, consistent with our message over a long time, on a longer-term basis, we do think there's operating leverage built into our model.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We have institutional clients, we have retail clients, we have, you know, pension funds, we have endowments. There is still excess leverage in the system that I’m not sure how that’s gonna be resolved necessarily. And, you know, Morgan Stanley has all types of different clients. So that, that’s the challenge.

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