Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Zephyr Peacock India looks to raise $200m in the midst of funding winter. The funding winter may not be anywhere near over, but global investors are still interested in India’s private markets. Global funds are sitting on dry powder that can easily run into tens of billions of dollars.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 10, 2023

Wall Street Journal ) • The Backlash Against ESG Faces Its Own Backlash : Pension funds in red states say culture-war policies are interfering with the market and could cost retirees and taxpayers billions. The company pops open its hood after 100,000 auctions to explain why.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 30, 2015

One of the first things I did when I joined the venture asset class as a lowly institutional LP analyst in 2001 was to build the VC fund cashflow model. Just about every analyst who looks at fund investing has built one. It's also not the "average fund". so that's what I said my exits would be as a seed stage fund.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 1, 2013

A lot of companies that probably shouldn't get funding will get it, because of the novelty of the platform and the momentum investing that tends to characterize individual investors. My hope is that funds, too, will access this crowdsourcing market. A lot of people have asked me over the last year what I think of crowdfunding.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2011

For every 5 haters on Business Insider, there's one startup out there that doesn't spend all their time reading the same stuff we do, and just happens to notice that video. They feel like I might be a reasonable guy to talk to about startups and decide to get an intro to someone at First Round because of it.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

I was working at the General Motors pension fund, and we were all huddled together in the trading room, which was the one place we had a television. Last night, Startup Weekend launched , and New York City has never been a better place to build a technology business. I had just graduated college that year.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

It's a story that just hit a milestone--a $4mm round of venture funding that I'm ecstatic to say Brooklyn Bridge Ventures just led. I was working for the GM pension fund, an institutional LP, as an analyst, doing a research project on consumer private equity and venture capital investing.

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FinSMEs

JUNE 12, 2023

Kyber Knight Capital, a San Francisco, CA-based new venture capital firm focused on pre-seed and seed investments in early stage technology startups, launched with a $120M inaugural fund. Co-founded by Sunny […] The post Kyber Knight Capital Launches With $120M Inaugural Fund appeared first on FinSMEs.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 2, 2023

Back in 2004, I was working for the General Motors pension fund, which had been making limited partnership investments in venture capital since the early 1980’s. I got to see all of the top VCs pitching their funds.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 2, 2024

But is that also true for start-ups and venture-funded private companies? She has been an early investor in companies that went public such as FIGS, Casper, and CloudFlare, as well as startups like Gimlett and Lightwell, that were later acquired by Spotify and Twitter. billion dollar startups have a founder who came here as a student.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 21, 2020

The existence of these letters has everything to do with where the venture capital firms get their funds from. This post on Startup Lawyer explains it well: Venture funds request these rights in order to obtain an exemption from regulations under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 2, 2024

She has been an early investor in companies that went public such as FIGS, Casper, and CloudFlare, as well as startups like Gimlett and Lightwell, that were later acquired by Spotify and Twitter. billion dollar startups have a founder who came here as a student. As it turns out, it depends where you look.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And at that time, Union Square Ventures’ Fred and Brad had started the firm, they had just raised the first fund. I led the Union Square Ventures investment in Etsy, I became a venture partner for that, and then became a GP in the 2008 fund. And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. RITHOLTZ: Okay.

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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. Elizabeth Burton : I think it’s because I went into risk management straight out school on the risk side of fund to funds and, and various other industries. A fund, A fund to funds.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Venture Capital Venture capital investments focus on financing startups and early-stage companies with significant growth potential. Hedge Funds Hedge funds are alternative investment vehicles that employ a diverse range of investment strategies and techniques to generate returns. between 2015 and the end of 2021.

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Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

Venture Capital Venture capital investments focus on financing startups and early-stage companies with significant growth potential. Hedge Funds Hedge funds are alternative investment vehicles that employ a diverse range of investment strategies and techniques to generate returns. between 2015 and the end of 2021.

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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. GREW: So, Man is a — as you said hundred million – 145-billion-dollar hedge fund. And it is slightly surreal.

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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. I was having lunch with Jeremy in the summer of 2007, just after the Bear Stearns hedge fund started blowing up.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 28, 2023

The pension fund is close to finalizing the sale of some of its Europe-focused investments and is in the middle of negotiations to reduce some of its US positions, one of the people said, who asked not to be identified due to the confidentiality of the matter. The pension fund held C$28.3 from the prior fiscal year.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 4, 2023

APG, which conducts investments on behalf of Dutch pension fund giant ABP, confirmed the acquisition in a joint press statement with OMERS but did not disclose financial terms. OMERS, which has C$124.2 billion ($93.67 read more L3Harris Explores Sale of $1bn Avionics Unit L3Harris Technologies Inc.,

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In addition to BMW and Volkswagen AG , Northvolt’s top investors included Goldman Sachs’s asset management arm, Denmark’s biggest pension fund ATP, Baillie Gifford & Co. funds and a number of Swedish entities. Still, work on a bridge funding deal continued, with an agreement coming close to fruition as recently as October.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Gillian Tan, Swetha Gopinath and Layan Odeh of Bloomberg report OMERS to stop making direct private equity investments in Europe: The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System will stop making direct private equity investments in Europe as the pension fund overhauls its operations there, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Major funds including Aware Super and Hostplus were investors. Through our supervision activities, APRA has continued to address these issues with RSE licensees since the conclusion of the review," APRA said in a release that did not name any funds. The rules also require funds to perform annual audits.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 5, 2024

Gillian Tan of Bloomberg reports Ontario Teachers' pension backs Bilt, now valued at US$3.25 Vanderbilt University Endowment, the University of Illinois Foundation and existing investors also participated in the extension to a January funding round, lifting Bilt’s valuation to US$3.25 billion from US$3.1 Why do they do this?

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 12, 2024

Reeves wants to unlock the investment potential of the £360bn local government pension scheme, which has more than 6mn members but is fragmented into 86 individual funds in England and Wales. If it were a single fund, it would rank among the top 10 biggest funds in the world.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

We should be like, 00:06:58 [Speaker Changed] It’s 00:06:58 [Speaker Changed] A startup. But we, we were mostly had minority equity positions because when you, when you, all you have is a hedge fund, Barry. And by the way, we had success, that fund of, we started with the $110 million. I write a business plan for it.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

They have $37 billion in clients and their own funds, of which they have invested across a variety of disciplines from credit to strategic capital, as well as taking companies private and helping them grow into something more substantial than they’ve been in the past. That’s our private equity fund. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 24, 2023

A month ago, Eliyahu Kamisher of the Los Angels Times reported that CalPERS pension fund posts 5.8% gain in its latest fiscal year as the stock market rally and private debt buoyed the largest traditional public pension fund in the United States. pension fund, has yet to release its fiscal 2023 results.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 25, 2024

James Bradshaw of the Globe and Mail reports Teachers' invests in portable battery company aiming to replace gas-powered generators: Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is leading a US$95-million funding round for Instagrid GmbH, a German maker of portable battery systems designed to replace gas-powered generators.

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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. The fact that other large Canadian pension funds keep poaching talent away from CPP Investments tells you how much talent there is there. billion ($3.72

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The upside of a gilt market crisis : Ballooning pension fund surpluses and improved funding ratios — what’s not to like? Workers Are Staying Put : Median job tenure in the US was unchanged from early 2020 to early 2022, and it isn’t much different from what it was in the 1960s. Bloomberg ). • Financial Times Alphaville ).

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 3, 2024

While pension and sovereign funds have positioned themselves well in private markets to harvest clean energy opportunities, Ambachtsheer said “the big question will be on the public [market] side”. And the focus of pension funds and other asset managers needs to squarely be on opportunities in the transition economy.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 22, 2023

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada Pension Plan Investment Board joins startup at $100 million Reforestation Fund: Canada’s largest pension fund has joined a project to produce carbon credits by planting more than 100 native tree species on degraded land in Brazil’s Amazon region.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 2023

The second is through private equity funds run by private equity firms, such as KKR and Blackstone. pension fund, has only about 11% of its assets invested in private equity, while Norway’s oil fund, one of the world’s largest wealth funds, has no investments in private equity at all. In the U.S., Democratic Sen.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Fund, which includes the combination of the base CPP and additional CPP accounts, achieved a 10-year annualized net return of 9.6%. For the quarter, the Fund’s net return was 0.1%. For the period, the Fund’s net return was negative 0.7%.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

DAMODARAN: But an ETF gets funded the next year on small-cap stocks. DAMODARAN: Or it could be some unique characteristic, pension funds pay no taxes. He said, don’t be a startup act that’s a stranger to the company, draw on the resources of the company, but make decisions as if you’re a startup.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Daniel Johnson of Bloomberg reports fall economic statement: Ottawa seeks to lower pension fund investments caps: The federal government announced a move to ease limits for pension funds investing in Canadian companies in its latest fiscal update, along with responses to tariff threats from the U.S.

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