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. The ILPA warns that any distributions received from a NAV-based facility might later be recalled to help repay the loan.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 17, 2025

Bloomberg reports OMERS hires partner of Temasek-backed fund as Global Head of Private Equity: The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System hired Alexander Fraser, a former partner of a Temasek-backed fund, as the global head of its private equity arm. OMERS Private Equity manages approximately C$27.5

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American Investment Council

JULY 23, 2024

This week, the American Investment Council released the latest edition of our Public Pension Study , which found that private equity remains the top-performing asset class for public pension funds and their more than 34 million beneficiaries nationwide. Over the past decade, private equity delivered 15.2

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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. Canadas largest pension notched a 3.8%

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Pension Pulse

MAY 24, 2024

You’d never know it to read the latest annual report from the fund’s managers, the CPP Investment Board, which spends much of its nearly 80,000 words boasting how, thanks to the herculean efforts of its employees and the sophisticated investment stratagems of its managers, it eked out an 8-per-cent return on investment for the CPP’s beneficiaries.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 30, 2024

a Calgary-based private equity manager that focuses on energy. The original private equity investment vehicle, formed more than a decade ago, is at the end of its life and other Aspenleaf shareholders are rolling their stakes into a continuation fund. And it's not just Aspenleaf. Ontario Teachers’ gained 1.9

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 6, 2023

John Graham, president and chief executive of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, which has C$576bn (£337bn) in assets, told the Financial Times he was opposed to “any constraint on portfolio construction” or “any influence to invest in a specific asset class or a specific part of the market”.

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