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.

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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.

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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 Committed €500 million to CVC Capital Partners IX, L.P.,

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

OTPP, which has almost C$250bn ($180bn) in assets, manages the pensions of 336,000 teachers in Canada’s most populous province. The ability of OTPP to invest in public equities alongside infrastructure, venture capital and property has helped it deliver average returns of 9.5 per cent a year since it was set up in 1990.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Previously she was Chief Investment Officer at various state pension funds, including Maryland and Hawaii. So when, when I think of bucketing, I think of a large institution that says, well we’re going to, we like this space, pick a space, private credit, venture capital, real estate doesn’t matter.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 23, 2023

It is for this reason that Canadian pension giant BCI finds itself in a rather enviable position. billion) public pension fund has spent much of the past decade using the secondaries market to cultivate a comparatively liquid portfolio of illiquid assets. We were very slow to get into venture capital and growth.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

So it used to be within private markets that you would find a good business, apply quite a bit of leverage to it, at least in the private equity business, and be able to make a pretty good return by buying good solid businesses as they are. Leverage levels have come down materially. LAYTON: Leverage levels have changed.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

If you’re interested in venture capital, in technology, in how to think about early stage investing, well, strap yourself in, this is a great one. With no further ado, my conversation with Union Square Ventures’ Albert Wenger. RITHOLTZ: Is that what led to your transition from entrepreneur to venture capital?

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 25, 2024

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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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

And you know, it’s funny, when I was on the road in the early days, you know, talk about even post GFC, you’d meet with large scale institutions and you talk about senior secured loans, private lending, covenants, reasonable leverage, et cetera, et cetera. So well capitalized, conservative structures, covenants.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 5, 2024

You’ve talked about pensions are now facing illiquidity issues because private equity and venture capital have gates up a lot, a lot of long-term tie up. So it, it really has and, and pension funds, they’re on hold today. And so the pension funds are faced with this illiquidity problem.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Much of their language is going to be around leverage and accounts receivable and gross margin. Their structures are built by their customers who are the limited partners by and large mostly its pension funds. It's not actually created by the private equity firms, it's created upstream by the pension funds.

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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. RITHOLTZ: Right. KLINSKY: Yeah.

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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. This is not an NGO job. ”

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 3, 2024

billion in the Public Service Pension Fund from the previous fiscal year will be shifted to general revenues. Labour leaders say workers also contributed to the fund and should benefit from any surplus, rather than having the money go toward other priorities such as new spending or reducing the size of the deficit.

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

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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. And so, this is a ripe market for them.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 1, 2025

Now its time for our countrys world-class pension funds to do the same. At the beginning of March, 2024, an open letter by executives pushed for our pension funds to invest more in Canada. Now there is additional impetus for more domestic investment by pension funds. This isnt a new idea.

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