Pension Pulse

MARCH 17, 2025

Bloomberg reports OMERS hires partner of Temasek-backed fund as Global Head of Private Equity: The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System hired Alexander Fraser, a former partner of a Temasek-backed fund, as the global head of its private equity arm. OMERS Private Equity manages approximately C$27.5

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Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 11, 2024

Arcano Partners has launched its fifth private equity secondary fund, ASF V, with a fundraising target of €500m, to provide liquidity and capital solutions to both LPs and GPs through transactions in the secondary market.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 21, 2023

The Seoul-based online fashion platform Musinsa has raised $130 million in a series C funding round headed by the global investment firm KKR. The capital infusion also includes support from Wellington Management. Executives there did not respond to a media request Wednesday. Source: YAHOO News Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 21, 2023

Read more K-Fashion Platform Company Secures $130m in Series C Funding Led by KKR The Seoul-based online fashion platform Musinsa has raised $130 million in a series C funding. read more Blackstone Becomes First $1tr Private Equity Manager Passing that milestone puts the firm in the same league as mutual fund behemoths and banking.

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 8, 2024

Trident Trust has acquired Tricor IAG Fund Administration Group (TIAG), a specialist provider of fund administration services to Asian private equity and venture capital funds. All TIAG staff will be joining Trident Trust’s existing global team of over 200 fund administration professionals.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 21, 2023

Read more K-Fashion Platform Company Secures $130m in Series C Funding Led by KKR The Seoul-based online fashion platform Musinsa has raised $130 million in a series C funding. read more Blackstone Becomes First $1tr Private Equity Manager Passing that milestone puts the firm in the same league as mutual fund behemoths and banking.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

Gresham House in July agreed with Seed Bidco Ltd, a newly incorporated entity formed by funds advised by Searchlight at 1,105 pence per share bid. Read more Paceline Equity Partners Backs $175m Merger of GCOM Software and OnCore Consulting An affiliate of Paceline Equity Partners, LLC , a Dallas-based private equity manager, today.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 11, 2024

The expected increase in allocation to alternative assets reflects investor optimism about distribution levels, notably in private equity. Some 86% of investors say that they expect to receive an increase in distributions from private equity managers in 2024 compared with 2023.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up In other news, in the first half of 2023, private equity (PE) and venture capital (VC) funds invested $21 billion in Indian enterprises and startups, indicating a solid recovery of risk capital inflow.

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Private Equity Professional

AUGUST 1, 2024

Limited partners in Fund III include both existing and new investors with total demand well in excess of the fund’s self-imposed hard cap. Hidden Harbor used Lazard as its Fund III placement agent and Kirkland & Ellis provided legal services. © 2024 Private Equity Professional | August 1, 2024

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Private Equity Wire

MAY 28, 2024

Private equity’s challenges in returning capital to clients are increasingly affecting hedge funds, which depend on the same pool of institutional investors including pension plans, foundations and endowments, for their fundraising efforts, according to a report by the Financial Times.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Keensight Capital, a private equity manager dedicated to making European growth buyout investments with offices in Paris, London and Boston, has raised €2.8bn in funds to invest in companies operating in the technology and healthcare sectors.

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The $1.3bn strategic capital arm of $50bn global alternative manager Investcorp has taken a minority stake in $7.3bn private equity manager Banner Ridge Partners and is now a passive, non-voting partner in the business. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

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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. QIC Private Equity manages AUD9.2bn as of 31 March.

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FinSMEs

MAY 21, 2024

Paceline Equity Partners, LLC, a Dallas, TX-based private equity manager, closed Paceline Equity Partners Opportunity Fund II, at $780m. billion in equity commitments between […] The post Paceline Equity Partners Closes Opportunity Fund II, at $780M appeared first on FinSMEs.

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Private Equity Wire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Private equity funds have captured a record 50.5% of private capital fundraising year-to-date as the sector continues to lead private markets amid growing interest from private wealth investors, according to a new report from Barclays Private Bank. per cent 15-year internal rate of return (IRR).

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 19, 2024

The UK’s Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has indicated that the Labour Party will uphold favourable tax treatment for private equity executives in cases where fund managers invest their own capital, according to a report by the Financial Times. The latter is subject to a much higher tax rate.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Layan Odeh of Bloomberg reports CPPIB plows at least $5 billion into private equity in three months: Canada Pension Plan Investment Board poured at least $5 billion into private equity in the last three months of 2024 as the asset class regained appeal. gain in the quarter, driven by returns in private equity and credit.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Valued at $1.45bn South Korean private equity firm MBK Partners said on Tuesday it had launched a tender offer to. read more Ares Management Raises $3.3bn for Real Estate Secondaries Fund Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES) (“Ares”), a leading global alternative investment.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The winners of the Private Equity Wire US Awards 2024, which recognise excellence among private equity fund managers and service providers in the US across a wide range of categories, were announced at an exclusive ceremony and networking event today (9 October), at The Penn Club, New York.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The Global Report 2025: Private Equity, highlights that while the industry grapples with headwinds, surveyed investors and fund managers remain cautiously optimistic about a better 2025. Private equity fundraising continues to face pressure from higher interest rates and global economic uncertainties.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The current economic climate of high inflation, rising interest rates, and market volatility is creating a complex environment for private equity while the abundance of dry powder capital and the need to deploy funds is driving continued deal-making. However, GPs are facing stiff competition for assets which can inflate pricing.

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Private Equity Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Key decision-makers at Europe’s largest private equity managers are to meet in London next year at The Private Equity Wire European Leadership Summit 2024. Visit the official Private Equity Wire European Leadership Summit website for more information on the event.

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FinSMEs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Keensight Capital, one of the largest private equity managers dedicated to European Growth Buyout investments, raised €2.8 billion in funds to invest in leading technology and healthcare companies. This globally diverse LP base generated c.90% 90% […] The post Keensight Capital Raises €2.8

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This is largely due to the emergence of start-ups backed by Private Equity and Managing General Agents (MGAs), attracting talent from established insurance houses. This influx has increased insurer capacity, especially in the London market, providing Private Equity managers with better options.

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Top 1000 Funds

MAY 13, 2024

ACCESS, the United Kingdom's £35 billion Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) pool, is seeking two private equity managers in its latest push into private markets following mandates to infrastructure and real estate managers in the last year.

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 6, 2023

PE managers increase focus on climate change and DEI Submitted 06/07/2023 - 10:50am The proportion of private equity managers assessing and measuring climate-related risks has risen sharply over the last twelve months, supported primarily by a significant increase among Asian managers, according to a report by LGT Capital Partners.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2024

Andrew Coyne laments in his latest opinion piece that eighteen years and $46-billion later, the CPP admits it could have earned more just by buying index funds: The Canada Pension Plan Fund had a bad year last year. The news is not that the fund trailed its benchmark in its most recent fiscal year. That’s not the news, however.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Brookfield Credit, the $305bn private credit investment division of $1tn-plus global alternative asset manager Brookfield Asset Management, is to make a $1bn investment in 17Capital’s net-asset-value private credit strategies.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 4, 2024

He was the long-time chair of the Toronto Port Authority and, earlier in his career, advised a committee of Canada’s Senate on issues that included the creation of major public-sector pension funds such as the Public Sector Pension Investment Board. Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP acted as legal counsel for OMERS Private Equity.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 30, 2024

a Calgary-based private equity manager that focuses on energy. The original private equity investment vehicle, formed more than a decade ago, is at the end of its life and other Aspenleaf shareholders are rolling their stakes into a continuation fund. according to a statement at the time.

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Private Equity Wire

JULY 21, 2023

Glow Capital Partners buys stake in uniform maker Cargo Crew Submitted 21/07/2023 - 10:37am Glow Capital Partners has taken a 51% stake in Australian hospitality uniform brand Cargo Crew, in the first deal for the Sydney-based private equity firm’s Glow Growth Fund I. Like this article?

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American Investment Council

JULY 23, 2024

This week, the American Investment Council released the latest edition of our Public Pension Study , which found that private equity remains the top-performing asset class for public pension funds and their more than 34 million beneficiaries nationwide. Over the past decade, private equity delivered 15.2

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This committed them to allocating 5 per cent of the assets in their default funds to unlisted equities by 2030. Nest, the UK government-backed workplace pension fund, said it preferred proven business models to early-stage venture capital. Because the high fees eat away at the returns.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Here are the key takeaways from their conversation: Background and BCI Overview: Jim Pittman has over 30 years of experience in finance and private equity, with a background in accounting and industry experience as a CFO and COO. What Makes a Compelling Manager: Performance is key, with a focus on net returns (e.g.,

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

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