Sovereign wealth funds shun stocks but embrace alternatives
State-run funds plan to increase their investments in infrastructure, real estate and private equity over the next 12 months
State-run funds plan to increase their investments in infrastructure, real estate and private equity over the next 12 months
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Four major North American pension funds have come together launch the Global Peer Financing Association (GPFA) to advance peer-to-peer securities lending by asset owners. The pension funds - ...Article Link
Giraffe Foods, a portfolio company of Graham Partners since December 2018, has acquired Lounsbury Foods. Toronto-based Lounsbury is a family-owned and operated manufacturer of horseradish (prepared, extra hot, mild sauce, and beet “red” horseradish), seafood
Shamrock Capital has held a final closing of Shamrock Capital Content Fund II LP with $400 million of capital. New and existing limited partners in Fund II include pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and
Existing investors Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund (BIVF), Reference Capital, multi-family office Wille Finance and several private investors have backed a CHF 25m round for cancer therapy developer T3 Pharmaceuticals.
The $409bn-managing Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has named former Temasek and Credit Suisse senior exec Boon Sim to its board of directors.
Z Capital Group (ZCG) has added Laura Krivec to its team as Director of Corporate Development. Ms. Krivec will be active with project management, developing new and existing relationships with pension consultants, private wealth platforms
The $21bn-managing Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions has picked Silver Lake Partners and Summit Partners for its two most recent private equity and venture capital commitments.
The pension is lowering its planned private equity investment this year amid reduced deal flow
The Stephens Group is continuing the build of Catalyst Acoustics Group with the buy of Fräsch, the company’s fifth add-on acquisition. Fräsch is maker of polyester wall panels, ceiling treatments, baffles, dividers, partitions, and acoustic
Fintech startup Titanbay is hoping to open up private equity investing to small and medium-sized institutional and private investors through its newly-launched platform.
German customer intelligence platform provider Zeotap has raised $42m in a series-C round from NeueCapital, Math Capital, TTCER Partners, Kathaka, the Rupert family office, and Coparion.
US pension giant CalPERS has fallen well short of its annual return goal amid its private equity investments tanking due to the coronavirus.
Only around half of family offices said they expected private equity to outperform public investments
Align Capital Partners (ACP) has made an investment in WilliamsMarston, a provider of accounting advisory and management consulting services. WilliamsMarston provides specialized consulting services to public, private equity-backed, and pre-IPO companies to support mergers, acquisitions,
Riflebird Capital portfolio company Piller Entgrattechnik has been acquired by family office SFO Gruppe.
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: U.S. public pension funding during Q2 2020 rebounded gaining $308 billion in the market value of assets and reversing Q1 losses, said a study. Milliman&`s Public Pension Funding Index (PP...Article Link
The head of investments at the UK’s largest pension fund on coping with crisis, bond market dislocations and recruitment plans
Fitch has downgraded Malaysia for the first time since the Asian financial crisis, slashing the sovereign rating by one notch to BBB+ due to the Covid-19 crisis and political uncertainty.
The bank said it will launch a dedicated offering for its ultra-high net worth clients to invest in private equity, private debt and other unlisted assets
