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My Career Regret - The Money and Interestingness Trade

This is going to be BIG.

Ten years ago, I was an analyst for the General Motors pension fund, working on fund investments into leveraged buyout funds and venture capital deals. I literally wrote the investment memo for GMs investment into Accel IX, otherwise known as the "Facebook Fund." (I

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BCI Sells $1-Billion of Private Equity Holdings to Ardian

Pension Pulse

pension fund manager sells $1-billion of private equity holdings to French buyout firm Ardian: British Columbia Investment Management Corp. is selling more than US$1-billion of stakes in private equity funds to French buyout firm Ardian SAS, tapping the secondaries market for private assets to free up cash for new investments.

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Are Alternative Investments the Key to Diversifying Your Portfolio?

Fortune Financial

It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. Venture Capital Venture capital investments focus on financing startups and early-stage companies with significant growth potential.

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Are Alternative Investments the Key to Diversifying Your Portfolio?

Fortune Financial

It encompasses strategies such as venture capital, leveraged buyouts and investing directly in publicly-traded private equity firms. Venture Capital Venture capital investments focus on financing startups and early-stage companies with significant growth potential.

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CPP Investments Aims to Double Credit Holdings Over Next Five Years

Pension Pulse

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada pension fund's credit head wants to take advantage of leveraged buyout boom: Canada’s largest pension fund plans to nearly double the size of its credit holdings over the next five years, and it’s counting on an upturn in leveraged buyouts to generate some of that growth.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

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. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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How OMERS CIO Ralph Berg Refocused The Investment Programs

Pension Pulse

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. We are starting to see LBO [leveraged buyout] activity pick up again.

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