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 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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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

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 Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

This shift partly reflects a rebalancing of power, enabling LPs in private equity funds, such as pension funds to exert influence over GPs. Private equity financing methods and sources are among the most closely guarded secrets in this already opaque sector. Data on NAV loan usage remains sparse.

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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 Wire

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The new fund has received an initial £750m of investment capital from Aviva’s flagship My Future Focus default pensions solution, which invests in a broad range of asset classes on behalf of the firm’s range of auto-enrolment Defined Contribution (DC) default strategies.

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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

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

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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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

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

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

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. OHA is the private markets platform of T.

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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

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Financial Times: Moral Money

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Also in today’s newsletter, ExxonMobil pension fund fined over climate disclosures

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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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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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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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The Motley Fool

MAY 12, 2024

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. Marsh & McLennan's primary business is business risk management.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The transaction is not subject to a financing condition. Billion for Australia Private Credit Fund Ares Management Corp. billion) for a credit fund for Australia and. read more Dutch Pension Fund Divests $3B from Fossil Fuel Firms Dutch pension fund PFZW has completed a $3.02 Read more Ares Raises $1.7

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Considered an accomplished businessman and pioneer of climate finance in India, he was in principle responsible for ensuring the good governance of the organization. And to be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if similar bribing schemes are also occurring at other CDPQ subsidiaries in India and at those of other large Canadian pension funds.

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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. Finance Can’t stop reading?

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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

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

APRIL 12, 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

JUNE 8, 2024

Direct Investments Many pension funds and endowments have hit the limit for how much they can allocate to private equity, leaving buyout firms to turn to increasingly sophisticated wealthy families or sovereign funds. Source: Yahoo Finance Can’t stop reading? stake in the supermarket to existing owners.

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