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

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.

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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. stake in the supermarket to existing owners.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 30, 2024

Institutional investors include large organizations such as investment firms, insurers, and pension funds. They're sometimes called the "big money" because of the massive size of their investments. As you might imagine, institutional investors own major stakes in the so-called "Magnificent Seven" stocks.

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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.” agreed to buy a Permian Basin rival and a controlling stake in.

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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. I still owe the guys stake if I could find him. Their structures are built by their customers who are the limited partners by and large mostly its pension funds. I was blessed.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Chris Witkowsky of Buyouts reports Canadian giant PSP Investments shops $1 billion-plus portfolio: PSP investments is shopping a large portfolio of fund stakes that could total up to around $1.5 billion, according to sources and confirmed by the pension system in a statement to Buyouts.

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Pension Pulse

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Jennifer L of Carbon Credits reports Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan buys majority stake in KKR’s Australian carbon project developer: A Canadian pension fund Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) has agreed to acquire KKR’s stake in a leading Australian carbon markets platform GreenCollar.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 16, 2024

High profile investment funds including Stanley Druckenmiller’s Duquesne Family Office, David Tepper’s Appaloosa Management, Soros Capital and Lee Ainslie’s Maverick Capital all cut their stakes in Nvidia in the second quarter, the filings show. percent to its recently disclosed stake in insurance giant Chubb.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Alexandre Rajbhandari of Bloombeg reports Buffett sold More BofA stock while keeping Apple stake intact: Warren Buffetts Berkshire Hathaway Inc. in last years final months, while keeping a stake in Apple Inc. The Omaha, Nebraska-based conglomerate cut its stake in the bank to 8.9% intact following an earlier reduction.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Reuters reports that Canadas BCI to buy BBGI infrastructure fund in US$1.32-billion in a deal valuing the Luxembourg-based investment firm at 1.06-billion billion all-cash offer from Canadian pension fund manager British Columbia Investment Management (BCI). billion ($1.32-billion),

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

One of the most dramatic moves in the third quarter was Chris Hohn’s TCI Fund Management selling its entire stake in Microsoft, which had previously totaled 11.8 David Tepper’s Appaloosa Management largely boosted its tech holdings in the period—except for Apple, which the hedge fund dumped entirely. The fund held 1.65

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Pension Pulse

MAY 25, 2023

Benefits Canada reports BCI investing in financial services provider, building Brisbane apartment complex: The British Columbia Investment Management Corp. is acquiring a minority stake in a corporate consultant and fund administration provider. PBS Frontline also examines who is establishing trusts in South Dakota.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 26, 2024

Iberdrola will have a majority stake of 51% in the assets. THE PERFECT PARTNER TO CO-INVEST Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, has assets under management of around €1.4 trillion and stakes in more than 9,000 companies. It owns on average 1.4% trillion ($965.47

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Pension Pulse

JULY 4, 2023

The company is still in talks with its shareholders about raising as much as £1 billion in fresh funds following a £500 million injection agreed last year. Its largest shareholder is Canadian pension fund Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (Omers), which holds a nearly 32 per cent stake.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 17, 2024

Among individual hedge funds, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. revealed a stake in insurer Chubb Ltd. The value of investments in technology increased the most while real estate rose by the least for any industry. Tiger Global Management LLC increased its stake in Alphabet Inc. and Microsoft Corp. Class A shares.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Ziply is currently owned by a group of private equity funds led by Searchlight Capital, and to fund its purchase, Montreal-based BCE will use $4.2-billion per-cent stake in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, the owner of Toronto’s professional hockey, basketball, soccer and football teams. More on that below.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 26, 2024

Suave Brands Company, a portfolio company of Boston-based private equity investment firm Yellow Wood Partners (Yellow Wood), is to acquire the ChapStick brand from global consumer health firm Haleon, in a deal valued at around $510m. Read more Canada’s Top Pension Funds Embark on Major Private Credit Expansion with C$1.3

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Pension Pulse

MAY 19, 2023

You can also click on column headings too and see which funds significantly increased their stake. But while everyone bought tech, a handful of billionaire investing titans such as Stanley Druckenmiller and David Tepper loaded up on aggressively on artificial intelligence stocks during the first quarter. dropped $1.15

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Pension Pulse

JULY 2, 2024

A change of philosophy When Longchamps took charge of CDPQ’s private equity business, its PE holdings were made up of 75 percent direct investments and 25 percent fund interests. The shift required “a change of philosophy” for investment staff on the PE team, Longchamps adds. billion, according to its 2023 annual report.

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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.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 16, 2024

A higher cost of debt and slower economic growth have created a tough investing environment, pushing down the value of some private assets that pension funds own. Private credit has been one of the best-performing asset classes for some large pension funds in recent years, often earning double-digit percentage gains.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 8, 2023

Shannon Rebolledo staked out the parking lot as JBS left and PSSI came in. And while this is a PR disaster for Blackstone, I'm glad it was exposed because if it can happen at Blackstone -- arguably the biggest and most coveted alternative investments firm in the world -- it can happen anywhere. Clearly that wasn't the case here.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 2024

billion; €6 billion) in liquidity last year, including roughly C$6 billion from selling direct investments and receiving dividend recapitalisations, and around C$3 billion from selling private equity fund stakes in the secondaries market, head of PE Martin Longchamps tells affiliate title Private Equity International.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 22, 2024

Ian Bickis of The Canadian Press reports CPP Investments earned 8 per cent in latest fiscal year, net assets rose to $632 billion: Canada's biggest pension fund earned an eight per cent return last year, but significantly underperformed the 19.9 Invested C$534 million in KPN, bringing our ownership stake to 2.9%.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 7, 2024

utility Allete said on Monday that it had agreed a deal with investment firms Global Infrastructure Partners and CPP Investments to be taken private at a US$6.2-billion Once it closes, Canada's pension fund will own a huge stake in this company and I have no doubt this will be a great long-term investment.

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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% Leduc, who said about 9.8 per cent return.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Invested £93 million in a debt facility to Vårgrønn, owner of a 20% stake in Dogger Bank Wind Farm, which is an offshore wind farm currently under construction, located off the coast of the U.K. The mandate will target investments in Canadian buyout and growth funds, secondary investments and direct co-investments.

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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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