Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In recent years, it has stepped up its investment in health care, infrastructure, technology, mobility, clean energy and life sciences, and has teamed up with private equity companies, pension funds and other investors as it expands its portfolio of assets.

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Texas-based private equity firm Trinity Hunt Partners has closed its latest fund, Trinity Hunt Partners VII, (Fund VII) at its hard cap of $700m in capital commitments, which was oversubscribed and had fundraising completed in under five months.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 20, 2024

Middle-market private equity and credit investment firm Comvest Partners has closed its sixth flagship private equity fund, Comvest Investment Partners VI (CIP VI), with total capital commitments of $881m. CIP VI attracted commitments from foundations, insurance companies, pension funds, asset managers, consultants and family offices.

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FinSMEs

JUNE 6, 2024

and its associated parallel funds with total commitments of $765.2m. Investors in Fund V include domestic and international pension funds, international banking conglomerates, insurance companies, endowments, foundations, consultants, and family offices.

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Private Equity Insights

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

SICAF Retail Davide Resta Consulting Argos Wityu Italian office Wise Equity United Ventures SGR S.p.A www.griffincap.com/casestudies/energy/ RCL Partners Swiss Re Quilam Capital Pragma Wealth Management Growth Strategy Ventures Sterling Ellis Global Consultancy Ltd Lookahead Ltd Alpha Real Capital Hermes GPE Private Markets Alpha Ltd.

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Private Equity Wire

MARCH 18, 2024

Despite a decline in both private equity infrastructure dealmaking and fundraising in 2023, limited partners (LPs) are planning to increase their commitments to the asset class, according to a new report by Boston Consulting Group. Deals declined by 18% last year, while global fundraising fell by 50% from a high of $176bn in 2022 to $89bn.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 9, 2023

But the reality behind investing motives is likely more nuanced: Research compiled by a collection of non-governmental organizations looked at 150 pension funds, banks, and insurance groups around the world and listed 4,500 companies that were excluded from many portfolios.

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FinSMEs

MAY 6, 2024

Palm Beach Capital (PBC), a West Palm Beach, Fl-based middle market private equity firm, closed its sixth fund, at over $350M, surpassing its target of $275M. The fund will continue […] The post Palm Beach Capital Closes Its Sixth Fund, at Over $350M appeared first on FinSMEs.

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Top 1000 Funds

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The UK government has just closed a consultation on LGPS pooling progress and processes that will shine a spotlight on £18 West Yorkshire pension fund's hybrid approach. Championing local investment and regional financial expertise may not be enough to offset pressure to step up pooling.

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FinSMEs

MARCH 19, 2024

Comvest Partners, a West Palm Beach, FL-based middle-market private equity and credit investment firm, closed its sixth flagship private equity fund, Comvest Investment Partners VI, at $881M.

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FinSMEs

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Trinity Hunt Partners, a Dallas, TX-based private equity firm, closed its Fund VII, at $700M. Its diverse investor base included insurance companies, pension funds, endowments, foundations, consultants, funds of funds, and family offices.

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FinSMEs

JANUARY 19, 2024

The Fund received interest from investors globally, attracting sizeable commitments from European and North American institutional LPs, including public pension funds, insurers, global PE consultants, endowments and foundations.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 3, 2023

The consulting firm Global SWF tracks all the important info about Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) and Public Pension Funds (PPFs). Its an amazing collection of charts and data. The asset value peak was $33.6 trillion (USD) in 2021; that’s down only slightly to $31.4 trillion as of the end of 2022.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 12, 2024

It's a business insurance broker, a healthcare and retirement benefit plan manager, a reinsurance broker, and a consultancy firm rolled into one. It even has an "outsourced chief investment officer" segment to handle defined benefit pension funds for clients.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 3, 2023

Institutional Investor ) • Are Defined Benefit Pension Funds Still Useful Recruiting, Retention Tools? Essential to public sector employees, a pension fund is a forgotten benefit for most workers in the private sector. And it’s not just Reddit — digital media from newsletters to TikTok are also playing a role.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The fund will continue Kreos’ investment strategy of providing loans to high-growth companies across EMEA, with a particular focus on the Technology and Healthcare sectors.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 13, 2024

Bob Baldwin wrote an op-ed for the Globe and Mail stating a proposal to encourage more pension fund investing at home is wrong for Canada: Last month’s budget unveiled a working group led by former Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz to collaborate with pension fund leaders to encourage funds to invest more of their assets in Canada.

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Private Equity Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

This represents a 34% increase in size from its predecessor fund, Rubicon Technology Partners III, which closed in 2020.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 18, 2024

Wiseman and Ambachtsheer were on a panel alongside inaugural Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan CEO Claude and CPP Investments current CEO John Graham, speaking about the origins and much-revered tenets of the Canadian system that are admired by pension funds around the world. And we were an incredibly entrepreneurial organisation.”

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

In partnership with global management consultancy Arthur D Little, Invest Europe has also released its annual sentiment survey. The survey indicates that fundraising sentiment is turning a corner, while optimism about new sources of capital is growing, including the potential to democratise access to a wider group of individual investors.

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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

For more information, visit cdpq.com , consult our LinkedIn or Instagram pages, or follow us on X. Levio currently has nearly 2,000 consultants working in 12 offices in Canada, the United States, Morocco, India and France. CDPQ is also the pension fund most present in its local economy globally.

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Mr. Bethlenfalvy told CBC Radio last week that he had consulted widely, including with workers, who purportedly welcome the OIB. But so far the government hasn’t shared any information about its consultations, let alone results. To be fair, these are early days, and the OIB will need to find its feet. Well, it didn't turn out that way.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

Last August, I passed the point at which I had spent literally half my entire life working in this asset class, having started at the General Motors pension fund doing institutional investments in venture funds and late-stage directs back in February of 2001.

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Pension Pulse

MAY 21, 2024

Consequently, no shareholders provided further funding to Thames Water and the value of OMERS Thames Water investment has now been written off,” said James Thompson, a spokesperson for OMERS Infrastructure, in an e-mailed statement Friday. Another major Canadian pension fund, British Columbia Investment Management Corp.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 10, 2024

For more information, visit cdpq.com , consult our LinkedIn or Instagram pages, or follow us on X. My message to all pension fund managers is simple, you are managing billions of pension assets, make sure you lead by example as you represent millions of hard-working citizens from all backgrounds.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 6, 2023

in Engineering and Wharton School of Business with an MBA, Pereira’s years of financial services industry experience extends to consulting having been with Boston Consulting Group advising a broad range of clients with a focus on financial institutions and consumer companies. After graduating University of Toronto with a B.Sc.

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Pension Pulse

APRIL 9, 2024

Big pension funds invest in big student housing programs because they're recession-proof businesses that add defensive cashflows to their portfolio. That's obviously important, but there's a defensive component to purpose-built student accommodation that pension funds very attractive. What about Canada?

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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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Pension Pulse

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Then it has been a lengthy process of consulting with our clients and helping them understand how this fits into their portfolios,” Ms. AIMCo invests around the world on behalf of 17 clients, which include pensions for teachers, police, municipal workers and others. Puffer said.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 24, 2024

The move follows a similar initiative by Ontario Teachers' Pension Fund, announced last June. For more information, visit cdpq.com , consult our LinkedIn or Instagram pages, or follow us on X. Never a dull day at Pension Pulse, I can tell you that much. As at June 30, 2023, CDPQ’s net assets totalled CAD 424 billion.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 8, 2024

On Wednesday, more than 90 chief executive officers at some of the country’s largest companies signed an open letter that urges federal and provincial finance ministers to “amend the rules governing pension funds to encourage them to invest in Canada.” And on Thursday, Ms. That compares with a 7.4-per-cent

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Pension Pulse

MAY 11, 2023

Paulina Pielichata of Pensions & Investments reports CDPQ works to pump $11.2 billion into European private markets: Canadian pension fund Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec has recently moved into its new London headquarters as it is working to deploy C$15 billion ($11.2 billion) in private markets across Europe.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 21, 2020

” These are typically the ability to attend board meetings, the ability to have access to financial reports on a regular basis, and the ability to advise and consult with the management of the company. The existence of these letters has everything to do with where the venture capital firms get their funds from.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 15, 2023

The growth came as the fund earned a 12-month total-fund net return of 4.8 The pension fund, which invests to pay for the retirement for 336,000 working members and pensioners, noted that as of Jan. 1 the plan was fully funded with a $17.5-billion billion funding surplus. per cent and 8.6

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Pension Pulse

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Speaking of heightened transparency, it would be nice if Canada's large pensions funds provided a lot more details on the carbon emissions in their own portfolios. No doubt, the Canadian pension fund industry is a trailblazer in best practices for risk management but more needs to be done.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 7, 2023

They’re talking about asset management firms, in which public pension funds often have investments, supporting shareholder proposals meant to achieve social justice or climate objectives yet of dubious financial value. Let me begin by stating the only thing I can't stand more than left-wing drivel is right-wing drivel.

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Pension Pulse

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Cogeco will repurchase some and, in the end, the Quebec pension fund will wind up with a 16.1 For more information, visit cdpq.com , consult our LinkedIn or Instagram pages, or follow us on X. Caisse de Depot won’t hang on to all of the Cogeco shares it’s buying from Rogers.

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