Private Equity Insights

JUNE 14, 2023

GrowthCurve Capital has held the final close of its inaugural private equity fund, GrowthCurve Capital Partners I, with total capital commitments of $1.4bn for the fund and related co-investment vehicles. Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. SMBC), Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), and.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 8, 2024

In April, Morgan Stanley’s infrastructure arm agreed to buy Milan-listed construction firm Salcef Group SpA with the Salciccia family, who have controlled it for decades. The shift is catching the eye of major investment banks. Darren Allaway, a London-based managing director in Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 14, 2024

She will focus on diligence for co-investment, fund and secondary opportunities predominantly in the middle and lower middle-market buyout and growth equity space. She began her career in investment banking at the Royal Bank of Canada in London. QIC Private Equity manages AUD9.2bn as of 31 March.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Asia-managed fund says it has already deployed half the money raised in three platforms. Read more BlackRock Backs Seraya Partners’ $800m Asia-Focused Infrastructure Fund Top global asset managers including BlackRock are among investors in an Asia-focused. is said to be nearing a deal to buy a stake in Cotiviti Inc.

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Private Equity Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Singapore- and New Delhi-based private equity firm Quadria Capital has marked the first close of its third investment vehicle. “We are on track to reach our final target for this fund, which puts us in good stead to execute our strategy and capitalise on a rich pipeline of opportunities.”

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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

JULY 11, 2024

“On things like NAV loans and margin loans, it’s just additional leverage and if things go against you, you can have a problem,” Stavros, KKR’s cohead of global private equity, said at the Berlin event. Some investors don’t want firms using such tools to flatter returns.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They’re one of the older private equity firms around, been been in business since 1994. 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. How did those experiences lead to a career in private equity?

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Private Equity Insights

MARCH 17, 2023

Yet, like its peers, Ares feels compelled to diversify into other asset classes, such as real estate, infrastructure, and private equity. The attractions of sticking with private credit are obvious. It’s easy enough to understand why Ares Cap would prefer to lend to a big firm than to a small- or middle-market one.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, his name is Steve Klinsky, and he has an absolutely storied history in the field of private equity. It was between corporate law and investment banking. Well, there were only 20 private equity firms in the world in 1984.

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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% CPP Investments, meanwhile—Canada’s largest pension investor, with the Caisse at No.

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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. Private equity firm Blackstone has invested around $4 billion in Invenergy. read more Energy Transfer to buy Crestwood Equity Partners in $7.1bn pipeline deal U.S.

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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. So what I mean by that is, first, understand the duration of your funding source. Pension funds have quite long-dated capital. So first, understand the duration of that funding source. That’s what I mean by liabilities.

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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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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

. ~~~ BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, another extra special guest from the world of private markets, the Partners Group is probably the largest private equity firm you’ve never heard of, perhaps because they were originally headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. in Colorado.

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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: — as an equity partner, right?

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