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PSPIB: strategic shift to more direct deals Co-sponsors, co-invests now slightly more than half of assets PE investments set record in fiscal 2017 Public Sector Pension Investment Board, one of Canada’s largest and fastest growing pension systems, is doing more direct deals as part of a strategy to transform its approach to private equity and […]
PSPIB: strategic shift to more direct deals Co-sponsors, co-invests now slightly more than half of assets PE investments set record in fiscal 2017 Public Sector Pension Investment Board, one of Canada’s largest and fastest growing pension systems, is doing more direct deals as part of a strategy to transform its approach to private equity and […]
Altas focuses on longer-term PE investing Seller is Laureate Education; deal closing seen in Q4 School is third investment from fund Altas Partners, a pioneer of long-life private equity investing, agreed to buy the largest educator of physical-therapy professionals in the United States. The Toronto investor on Wednesday said it would pay $400 million to […]
OMERS Private Equity reported 18.2 pct return on core ‘directs’ portfolio Group has had several liquidity events over past few years Two exits drove 2017 performance OMERS Private Equity finished 2017 with a hefty pay packet, earning a net return of 18.2 percent, much of it owing to sales of a U.K. software business and a […]
OMERS Private Equity reported 18.2 pct return on core ‘directs’ portfolio Group has had several liquidity events over past few years Two exits drove 2017 performance OMERS Private Equity finished 2017 with a hefty pay packet, earning a net return of 18.2 percent, much of it owing to sales of a U.K. software business and a […]
CDPQ doing more direct PE deals: Etroy Two-thirds of ’17 PE portfolio assets were directs PE investments overall: 5-year annualized return 13.4 pct Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, one of the world’s biggest investors in private equity, is increasing its capital deployments by doing more direct deals with a select group of partners. The […]
CDPQ doing more direct PE deals: Etroy Two-thirds of ’17 PE portfolio assets were directs PE investments overall: 5-year annualized return 13.4 pct Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, one of the world’s biggest investors in private equity, is increasing its capital deployments by doing more direct deals with a select group of partners. The […]
Brookfield PE group said to plan biggest fund yet Fund V to begin fundraising in first half: source Fund IV closed in ’16 at $4 bln hard cap Brookfield Asset Management PE group will soon launch its biggest fund yet to support an intensified global strategy that is taking dealmaking into new territory. Brookfield Capital Partners V will begin fundraising […]
OMERS Infrastructure recruited Blackstone Group’s Michael Ryder as a senior managing director and head of its Americas team, a person familiar with the matter told Buyouts. Ryder joins OMERS Infrastructure, an investment arm of Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, after more than three years as a Blackstone senior managing director. He led the midstream energy and oilfield-services strategy of Blackstone Energy Partners. […]
Whitehorse II raises nearly US$730 million Whitehorse I wrapped in May 2017 at US$400 mln cap Secondary-market conditions strong Whitehorse Liquidity Partners has raised nearly US$730 million for its second private equity secondary fund, the firm said in an SEC filing. The Toronto investor has so far accounted for more than three-quarters of the fund’s target of US$1 billion. […]