Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Private equity firm Apollo Global (APO.N) is weighing a bid for UK’s Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) in a deal that could value the company at about $6.26bn, Sky News reported on Wednesday. is weighing a bid for UK's Pension Insurance Corporation. is weighing a bid for UK's Pension Insurance Corporation.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Two of Australia’s largest pension investors pledged to pour $19bn into UK and European markets in coming years, as the industry increasingly looks for opportunities overseas. trillion pension industry, known locally as superannuation, which has increased assets invested overseas in recent years.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 4, 2023

The fundraising to date comprises $330 million in direct commitments and $150 million in co-investment allocations. Investors in NPV ESG include KLP, a German occupational pension fund, and a large Nordic pension fund. Source: Private Equity Wire Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 19, 2024

private equity is about to get a big boost from Australia’s largest pension fund. AustralianSuper, which manages nearly US$200 billion, tells Axios that it plans to double its global private equity exposure over the next five years, with between 70-80% of those new dollars heading to the U.S.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 8, 2024

They’ve made a mark on Wall Street as go-to sources of capital for investment firms like KKR & Co. Germany’s Viessmann family, flush with cash after a major divestment, teamed up with KKR for its $3 billion acquisition of renewable energy firm Encavis AG announced in March.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 26, 2024

Connecticut-based private equity firm Olympus Partners has sold Soliant Health, an education and healthcare staffing company, to private investment firm The Vistria Group for approximately $2.5bn, less than five years after acquiring the business for $612m, according to a report by CT Insider.

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Sandbrook Capital, a private investment firm dedicated to transforming the world’s energy infrastructure, today announced the final closing of Sandbrook Climate Infrastructure Fund I at its hard cap of $1.5bn. Source: Yahoo! Finance Can’t stop reading?

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Swedish private equity giant EQT is gearing up for a series of acquisitions, anticipating a wave of consolidation in the $10tn private capital industry as smaller firms or those facing succession issues look to merge with larger players, according to a report by the Financial Times.

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Private Equity Insights

JUNE 27, 2023

Investors in the Fund, which were a mix of numerous new investors as well as existing New Mountain Net Lease investors, include pension funds, insurance companies, asset managers, endowments, family offices and high net worth individuals. investment giant Blackstone is reportedly weighing offers for half its stake in the real.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 30, 2024

We are thrilled to be entering into this partnership, on behalf of our pension fund client ABP and Asset Owner Partners, and we are eager to work closely with the euNetworks team as they continue to develop and further their strategic vision.” Billion Loan for AirTrunk Bid Private equity firm Blackstone Inc.

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Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 15, 2023

MFA preps for SEC fee disclosure legal challenge Submitted 15/08/2023 - 10:38am A legal clash between hedge funds and private equity firms and the SEC is looming large over the regulator's proposed plan to tighten rules on the disclosure of fees and dealing with investors, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

An investment firm who had done some diligence on our business and wanted to back me and my team to spin it out, prevailed at the auction. Their structures are built by their customers who are the limited partners by and large mostly its pension funds. Now, this is not true of all private equity firms.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 20, 2023

Keep in mind that Credit Investments (CI) make up 13% of CPP Investments' total portfolio which make it a very important asset class. Importantly, no other large Canadian pension fund has allocated as much to Credit as CPP Investments (or Private Equity which makes up 33% of of its total assets).

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 26, 2024

billion take private bid from investing firm Arkhouse and hedge fund Brigade earlier this month. Read more Canada’s Top Pension Funds Embark on Major Private Credit Expansion with C$1.3 Trillion in Assets Six of Canada's biggest pension funds managing C$1.3 trillion ($965.47

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 26, 2024

Private equity firms RedBird Capital Partners and KKR & Co. Read more Canada’s Top Pension Funds Embark on Major Private Credit Expansion with C$1.3 Trillion in Assets Six of Canada's biggest pension funds managing C$1.3 are both investors in Skydance. trillion ($965.47

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Pension Pulse

MAY 11, 2023

Paulina Pielichata of Pensions & Investments reports CDPQ works to pump $11.2 billion into European private markets: Canadian pension fund Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec has recently moved into its new London headquarters as it is working to deploy C$15 billion ($11.2

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Private Equity Insights

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Ara Partners (“Ara” or the “Firm”), a leading private equity and infrastructure investment firm specializing in industrial decarbonization, today announced that it has closed over $3bn of new capital commitments. is weighing a bid for UK's Pension Insurance Corporation.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 26, 2024

The London-headquartered private equity fund has invested almost €115 million in Irish companies since it first entered the market in 2017. Read more Canada’s Top Pension Funds Embark on Major Private Credit Expansion with C$1.3 Source: Business Post Can’t stop reading? trillion ($965.47

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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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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 12, 2024

This platform is set to be the preeminent, one-stop infrastructure solutions provider for global corporates and the public sector, mobilizing long-term private capital through long-standing firm relationships,” said Bayo Ogunlesi, GIP Founding Partner, Chairman, and CEO. “We So why did BlackRock acquire GIP?

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Pension Pulse

MAY 8, 2023

For all the years the investigation found child labor, PSSI has been owned by Wall Street's Blackstone--the largest private equity firm in the world. Blackstone told us "extensive pre-investment due diligence showed PSSI had industry-leading hiring compliance." Clearly that wasn't the case here. Therein lies the problem.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

A CPPIB spokesperson said the name of the fund is Canadian Fund-of-Funds V and that as an evergreen mandate, it's an additional commitment to a customized mandate with the pension fund. billion in Canadian private equity investments on behalf of CPPIB, a Sept. 14 news release said.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The statement, sent exclusively to the National Post , marks the first time Poilievre has explicitly addressed the issue of Alberta’s proposal to withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and set up its own pension fund. in a joint transaction with private investment firm Searchlight Capital Partners.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2023

In private credit, tightening credit conditions resulting from a handful of bank failures and rescues in the United States have opened up opportunities for non-bank players like pension funds, he said. Christine Dobby of the Toronto Star also reports CPP Investments posts 1.3% per cent return. Committed INR 18.5

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

You had a lot of the big buyout firms, they were doing the transactions in the ‘80s, in the early ‘90s. But, you know, these large firms were spinning off smaller private equity firms. So lots of folks work there that now run very large alternative asset management firms and credit arms of firms.,

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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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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Committed C$200 million to the Canadian private equity market through an evergreen Canadian mid-market mandate managed by Northleaf Capital Partners, a Toronto-headquartered global private markets investment firm. Invested US$40 million in Redwood Materials Inc., STAR Capital is a mid-market, U.K.-based

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 5, 2024

IMCO CEO Bert Clark posted a comment on LinkedIn going over the Canadian model and other thoughts from the Fiduciary Investors Symposium: I recently had the pleasure of speaking at Top1000 Funds’ Fiduciary Investors Symposium Toronto 2024. The solution isn’t having pension funds invest more in the existing opportunity set.

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