Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 22, 2025

The New York State Common Retirement Fund, one of the largest public pension funds in the US, allocated over $3bn in November 2024. More than $2.7bn went to private equity. Over the past six months, NYSCRF has committed a total of $5.4bn to private equity.

Pension Funds 162

Pension Funds Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Assets 162

Private Equity Wire

JANUARY 13, 2025

Buyout firms have long relied on controversial loans backed by equity stakes to enhance fund returns, but growing investor criticism has triggered a slowdown, according to a report by Bloomberg UK. Many firms borrowed against their portfolio companies to sustain the private market boom while dealmaking dwindled.

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Investors Buyout Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms 98

Private Equity Insights

APRIL 5, 2024

Private equity firm Advent International has agreed to buy Canada’s Nuvei NVEI.TO in a deal that values the payments technology firm, which has received financial backing from actor Ryan Reynolds, at $6.3 billion, would make it one of the more sizable take-private deals at a time when private equity dealmaking has slowed.

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Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Pension Funds Buyout 130

The Big Picture

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They’re one of the older private equity firms around, been been in business since 1994. So I had worked for two private equity firms when I got outta Stanford. We, we tended at the beginning to capitalize our companies with less debt than other investors. They run over $27 billion in, in assets.

Private Equity Firms 69

Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Mergers and Acquisitions Debt 69

The Big Picture

MARCH 5, 2024

00:05:21 [Speaker Changed] No income taxes for the company and, and 00:05:23 [Speaker Changed] Then Koch Industries, I I, I don’t think a lot of people realize one of the largest private companies in the United States and maybe even the largest, they’re, they’re giant energy powerhouse. Oh, really?

Capital 59

Capital Hedge Funds Banks Assets 59

Pension Pulse

MAY 8, 2023

For all the years the investigation found child labor, PSSI has been owned by Wall Street's Blackstone--the largest private equity firm in the world. No pension fund wants to invest in private companies that abuse immigrant children. How can this happen? Where did oversight fail?

Due Diligence 52

Due Diligence Pension Funds Education Mutual Funds 52

Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Layan Odeh of Bloomberg reports CPPIB plows at least $5 billion into private equity in three months: Canada Pension Plan Investment Board poured at least $5 billion into private equity in the last three months of 2024 as the asset class regained appeal. 31, according to Bloomberg calculations. Committed KRW 473.1

Mergers and Acquisitions 59

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