Private Equity Insights

JUNE 27, 2023

Ardian raises over $20bn for secondaries fund the Paris-based PE firm has set a target for the fund of $25bn French group Ardian has amassed more than $20bn to buy stakes in private equity funds from investors, highlighting a corner of finance that is defying the broader slump in fundraising.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 26, 2024

Apollo is one of a number investors, both wealthy individuals and professional money managers, that have reached out in recent weeks to BDT & MSD Partners, the investment bank advising the Redstones, according to people familiar with the discussions. Trillion in Assets Six of Canada's biggest pension funds managing C$1.3

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

The asset could attract investment funds and pension funds, the people said. In 2021, I Squared invested about $200 million in Singapore-based AG&P City Gas, another city gas distributor in India that has 12 concessions in the country. Source: BNN Bloomberg Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 8, 2024

ASA in January with funding from Denmark’s Kirk Kristiansen dynasty, the owners of Lego Group. 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.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 26, 2023

The report cites unnamed sources familiar with the matter as saying that Paris-based Ardian, which has around $150 billion under management, is ultimately targeting $25 billion for the new fund. Like this article? Sign up to our free newsletter Author Profile Related Topics Deals Intelligence

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Private Equity Wire

MAY 24, 2024

Last January, Bloomberg reported that JPMorgan’s investment bank had allocated over $10bn of its balance sheet for direct lending and was focused on forming partnerships with asset managers to collaborate on private credit deals.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 12, 2024

This year, the firm added nine managing directors, including Adam Cady from Bank of America, to lead large-cap financial sponsor coverage in North America, as well as former Citigroup banker Ali Syed, to focus on sovereign wealth funds and pension funds.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 5, 2024

US institutional investors are offloading their private equity holdings at slashed prices, reflecting a broader trend of reducing exposure to the illiquid asset class, with pension funds and endowments leading the charge, according to a report by the Financial Times. The trend continued with 95% in 2022 and 73% in 2021.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 13, 2024

This year alone, Lazard has onboarded nine managing directors, including Adam Cady from Bank of America, to lead large-cap financial sponsor coverage in North America; and Ali Syed from Citigroup, to focus on sovereign wealth and pension funds.

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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 amount of business that banks do with us now is more than it has ever been.”

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

In her new role, Sulaiman will be responsible for driving investment origination and execution, building and maintaining relationships with key intermediaries, PE managers, company management teams and peer investors, as well as monitoring existing investments within Europe.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 5, 2024

.” With electricity demand rising after two decades of stagnation, driven by the expansion of data centres and the digital infrastructure required for artificial intelligence, investors are increasingly seeking opportunities to acquire and invest in power plants.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This suggests that institutional investors, including investment banks and pension funds, are scrambling to take part in what could be the biggest IPO of the past couple of years.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

0% Limited Partners 0% General Partners 0% Investment Banks EXPERIENCE PE-INSIGHTS Get the experience of the leading private equity conference in the United Kingdom. Innovative-RFK Fondo pensione Cometa Primo Ventures SGR S.p.A. SGR Alchimia Investments Sagard Equity Partners STYLE CAPITAL SGR S.p.A. WHO ATTENDS?

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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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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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Financial Times M&A

MARCH 31, 2022

Acquisition of Axicom from investment bank Macquarie follows funds buying up infrastructure assets

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Low De Wei of Bloomberg News reports BlackRock, Aimco Back $800 Million Asia Infrastructure Fund: An Asia-focused infrastructure fund has raised $800 million from investors including funds managed by BlackRock Inc. and pension manager Alberta Investment Management Corp., amid renewed interest in the asset class.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 23, 2024

It’s late April, and Emond is appearing at a hearing at Quebec’s National Assembly, where parliamentarians are zeroing in on a perceived dilution of the share of assets the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec has invested at home, from 26.1% We must take into account the size of the fund, the size of the Quebec economy.

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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. Banks are more heavily regulated, for good reason.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 8, 2023

Mr. Hill will join OMERS in September, the public pension fund announced Wednesday, and report to Ralph Berg, who took over as the chief investment officer in April. He also spent 25 years in investment banking at Japanese dealer Nomura Securities, German lender Deutsche Bank AG and U.S.-based

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan chief investment officer to depart at the end of December: Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan chief investment officer Ziad Hindo is leaving the pension fund manager at the end of the year after five years in the role.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 10, 2023

Crane was most recently a senior managing director, responsible for overseeing and managing infrastructure and natural resources investments for the pension fund in the Asia-Pacific region. According to the pension fund, it currently has more than 85 employees in the region. He holds a B.S. billion ($187.5

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The Big Picture

JULY 28, 2023

( A Wealth of Common Sense ) • Family Offices Are Patiently Watching These Asset Classes for Opportunities : Real estate and private debt are among the investments these asset owners are eyeing. Previously, she was a senior reporter at Wall Street Journal covering finance, investment banking and M&A.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

Funds raised money, bought businesses, loaded them with debt, exited at a profit and convinced happy investors to do it all over again — at ever greater scale. Concerns about PIK loans have also begun to impact the people who provide them, often private credit funds. Surging borrowing costs have stalled that engine. “On

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 23, 2024

Operationally, we delivered our highest Q1 recurring sales in analytics in a decade at $14 million, our best-ever Q1 of recurring sales among hedge funds at nearly $11 million, and another quarter of double-digit subscription run rate growth of 11% among asset owners, driven by index and analytics. From a client segment lens in index, $5.2

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Tucker Advisors

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Shortly after The Great Recession began unraveling in 2008, many people feared insurance companies would suffer the same fate as investment banks like Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns, Wachovia and Washington Mutual. After all, no one could have predicted those banks would fail, either.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

There are several real-time proxies of the unemployment rate, but one of my favorites is from the Conference Board. Very few people cover macro and markets as well as Francois and even when I disagree with him, I agree with him on the bigger picture, it's dismal.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And that was very important because when this was the dawning of what is now a big analyst program across the country in all banks and investment banks. Michael Fisch : 00:07:15 [Speaker Changed] The largest fund then was KKR with $175 million. The second largest fund was Forman little with 150.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I was actually running the Investment Banking Club at BYU, and you know, thought I was interested in that, interested in going to Wall Street. We had a group that was doing small growth capital investments in Germany and Switzerland at that time, a fund doing secondaries. Look, our parents all had pension funds.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 17, 2023

Analysts at investment bank Credit Suisse have estimated the IRA could lead to the generation of tax credits worth $576 billion by 2031. Read more TPG Growth, Temasek infuse $80m in eye hospital chain Dr Agarwal’s Health Care Chennai-based Dr Agarwal’s Health Care Ltd has secured $80m in funding from its existing.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 15, 2024

The pension fund had solid returns from its portfolio of public stocks, which gained 10.4 But stocks make up only 19 per cent of the pension fund’s assets after it shifted billions of dollars from equities into government bonds and credit investments, seeking to take advantage of high interest rates.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

Investment banks were not really a known concept in the area where I grew up. SALISBURY: So that actually helped in a way that everybody was dealing with the same broad-based crisis as opposed to when it’s just you or just your firm or just your fund, where in some ways it can feel more stressful. SALISBURY: Yes.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

And what was fascinating about Drexel and kind of the diaspora, if you will, of that era was that we all basically went out looking to take that experience, particularly in high yield and kind of buyouts and financing, and do it at either banks or other investment banks. KENCEL: It’s the investment banking affiliate.

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The Big Picture

MAY 23, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, another extra special guest, Robin Grew, President of Man Group, $145 billion publicly traded hedge fund in the UK, and soon to be Man Group’s CEO. RITHOLTZ: Sure, all the little banking things, yeah. RITHOLTZ: Uh-oh. GREW: I know, this seems to be a process.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 4, 2023

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. Its largest shareholder is Canadian pension fund Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (Omers), which holds a nearly 32 per cent stake. What happened to Bentley?

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

That whole distressed debt department at city 00:06:31 [Speaker Changed] Banks are wanting to sell? I work for a really senior guy in the investment bank. It was very much a brokerage house with a growing, expanding investment bank. It wasn’t really a proprietary investing trading culture.

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