The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But because these are really good businesses, which got levered, they got leveraged through these leverage buyouts. Early nineties was the start of the modern high yield leverage buyout business done at scale. There’s leverage. But Barry, can I tell you, but go back, go back to one thought though.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But there came to be, in certain situations, buyers that were bootstrap, buyers that were, we would call ’em today, they then leveraged buyout financiers. What sort of risks does this create for your portfolio companies? And now we call it the private equity industry. million at the final closing.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For the six-month fiscal year-to-date period, the Fund increased by $6 billion consisting of a net loss of $4 billion, plus $10 billion in net CPP contributions. For the period, the Fund’s net return was negative 0.7%. The approach involves supporting portfolio companies as they reduce emissions to build value over the long term.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 25, 2025

Josh Recamara of Insurance Business Magazine reports Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan is reassessing its private equity strategy: Ontario Teachers Pension Plan is reassessing its private equity strategy, moving away from full ownership of companies and focusing more on partnerships. The fund, which oversees around $266.3

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 3, 2025

Ralph Berg, chief investment officer at OMERS for nearly two years, brings a fresh perspective to pension fund management with a history and work pedigree different to what you might expect from a Canadian fund investment boss. There was no total portfolio view or management team and we had an excessive number of programs.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

Pension funds, perhaps, maybe aren’t growing as much as they need them to. RITHOLTZ: Clearly, 401(k) is not a much faster growing part of the allocation landscape than either direct benefits or pensions, if anything, that side of the street is shrinking dramatically. MORGENSON: And so, he buys this portfolio of junk bonds.

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