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. The shift is catching the eye of major investment banks.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It had received commitments from both existing and new investors that include institutional investors, insurance and pension funds, development finance institutions and family offices across the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific, it said. Quadria has a hard cap of $1bn for this vehicle. It has raised about $480-$500m so far.

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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. The report went on to note that the "sheer number of bankers involved. was itself a red flag."

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Pension Pulse

JULY 11, 2024

A broader worry is that while buyers’ hunger may be back for higher-quality companies, as shown by the uptick in investment-banking activity on Wall Street, the books of PE firms are stuffed with less attractive businesses snapped up at inflated prices. The tranches carry an interest rate of 11%-12%.

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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. That’s important.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 23, 2024

Finally, the MSCI Carbon Markets team, formerly Trove Research, has expanded our climate solutions and deepened our engagement with existing and prospective clients beyond institutional investors such as corporates, trading desks, and banks.

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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. How much is it the value of the company you’re investing in? How much is the prospective market size, as well as how robust local economy is? LAYTON: Yeah.

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