Leveraging, Pension Funds and Startups

On CPP Investments' Insanely Large Allocation to Private Equity

Pension Pulse

JULY 24, 2023

pension fund, has only about 11% of its assets invested in private equity, while Norway’s oil fund, one of the world’s largest wealth funds, has no investments in private equity at all. But which businesses were acquired by the Apollo fund? How leveraged are the investments? In which industries?

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CalPERS CIO Nicole Musicco on Bloomberg Wealth

Pension Pulse

AUGUST 24, 2023

A month ago, Eliyahu Kamisher of the Los Angels Times reported that CalPERS pension fund posts 5.8% gain in its latest fiscal year as the stock market rally and private debt buoyed the largest traditional public pension fund in the United States. pension fund, has yet to release its fiscal 2023 results.

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Regulators Demanding More Disclosure From Private Equity and Hedge Funds

Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Advocacy groups have accused the private fund industry of unfair, conflicted and opaque practices that hurt everyday Americans who invest in such funds through their pensions. It's not as if some state pension fund benefits from opacity," SEC Chair Gary Gensler told reporters after the panel's vote.

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OTPP’s Sustainable Investing Chief Welcomes Anti-ESG Sentiments

Pension Pulse

JUNE 3, 2024

And the focus of pension funds and other asset managers needs to squarely be on opportunities in the transition economy. How can pension funds take part in the new nuclear revolution? The world is heading toward net zero but the transition to net zero won't be linear and it will be full of economic and social potholes.

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Are Alternative Investments the Key to Diversifying Your Portfolio?

Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

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. trillion in buyouts, highlighting its resilience and impressive growth.

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Are Alternative Investments the Key to Diversifying Your Portfolio?

Fortune Financial

AUGUST 7, 2023

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. trillion in buyouts, highlighting its resilience and impressive growth.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Previously she was Chief Investment Officer at various state pension funds, including Maryland and Hawaii. So you end up going from the fund of funds to pension funds. I had a a two brief jobs between the, the fund of funds in Maryland and business school in between there. Absolutely.

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

WENGER: Yeah, that had really been my goal since my own first startup in ’96, ‘97, which was a company called W3Health that ultimately failed. From that experience, I realized that I really loved startups, but then I was never going to be good operator, but I thought I could maybe be a decent investor. Why is that?

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Transcript: Victor Khosla, Strategic Value Partners

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But, but I think if I was to go back through my career, that moment in time, you know, when there is this big wave coming, because it was the start of the high yield market, the leverage loan market grew dramatically, you know, from 200 billion in the mid nineties to $5 trillion today, high yield and leverage loans. We should grow in.

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Transcript: Edward Chancellor

The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I then was doing journalism for Breakingviews, which was the sort of dot-com startup, FX FT people known by Reuters, and started doing some — and then I did some research for Crispin Odey, London hedge fund guy. pension funds engaged in to the tune of hundreds of billions of pounds.

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Transcript: Robyn Grew

The Big Picture

MAY 23, 2023

RITHOLTZ: And — and to — for a little context, maybe for some of the audience in America who may not be that familiar with Man Group, this isn’t like a startup. Maybe it’s leverage, maybe it’s a tele protection, maybe it’s an overlay hedge, maybe it’s any number of these things. And it is slightly surreal.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

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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CPP Investments Commits Up to US$30 Million to The Amazon Reforestation Fund

Pension Pulse

AUGUST 22, 2023

Paula Sambo of Bloomberg reports Canada Pension Plan Investment Board joins startup at $100 million Reforestation Fund: Canada’s largest pension fund has joined a project to produce carbon credits by planting more than 100 native tree species on degraded land in Brazil’s Amazon region.

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This Week in Pensions & Investments: 10-11-2023

Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Committed US$150 million to American Industrial Partners Capital Fund VIII, which will primarily target value-oriented, control investments in the North American industrials sector. Leveraging these investment advantages are some of the strategies IMCO uses to enhance returns on behalf of our clients. Read his full comment here.

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Private Equity Central

On CPP Investments' Insanely Large Allocation to Private Equity

CalPERS CIO Nicole Musicco on Bloomberg Wealth

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