Luxembourg slices 6bp from spread in sustainability debut

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg launched Europe’s first sovereign sustainability bond to big demand on Monday morning, allowing the sovereign to bring the spread in by 6bp during pricing.

CPP Investments appoints former French railway company CEO as senior adviser

The groups investment portfolio in Europe makes up 15.5% of the pension plan’s total investments

CPP Investments appoints SNCF’s Pepy as senior adviser

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) has appointed Guillaume Pepy as senior adviser for Europe.

Los Angeles County pension fund seeks to cast wider net for co-investment deals

The pension system has struggled to access co-investment deals through its $6.5bn private equity portfolio

Connecticut pension pushes into private credit with $350m Goldman Sachs pledge

The Connecticut pension system began building its private-credit portfolio with $463 million in commitments across various strategies

Warren Sees Green in Arborist Platform

Warren Equity has closed two acquisitions in the arborist services sector with the buys of Gunnison Tree Services and New Urban Forestry. Gunnison Tree Services is a provider of tree and vegetation management services to

HKW Closes Third Fresh Direct Add-On

Fresh Direct Produce, a distributor of fresh, ethnic, tropical, organic, and specialty produce and a portfolio company of HKW, has acquired Mike and Mike’s Organics. Mike and Mike’s is a non-grower distributor of organic fruits

Charlesbank’s New Credit Fund Hits Hard Cap

Charlesbank Capital Partners has held a $700 million, oversubscribed, and hard cap closing of Charlesbank Credit Opportunities Fund II LP. The new fund’s original target was $500 million. Fund II has more than 30 institutional

Man Capital’s Mansour: Coronavirus will see family offices emerge from the shadows

Family offices have developed over the past decade to become sophisticated investors ready for the next stage of growth

Former Apollo executive partners with family office founder to launch UK bank

Monument will offer clients buy-to-let and property investment lending of up to £2m through a completely digital process

VC-backed Penta picks up another funding round to follow €18.5m Series B in March

Digital business bank Penta has collected €4m in a new funding round, adding to the €18.5m it raised in March for its Series B. The capital infusion was supplied by S7V, Presight Capital and two

Triton’s Eqos Energie bolts on AML Elektrotechnik

Triton-backed Eqos Energie has acquired the operating and office equipment of Austria-based electrical engineering company AML Elektrotechnik in an asset deal, following AML's insolvency filing in April 2020.

Evolution Managers Backs Another New Manager

Evolution Managers Capital (EMC), an investor in emerging private equity firms, has made its second fund investment to date by backing Greens Farms Capital. EMC was formed in October 2019 by Chicago-based HC Private Investments

Cirque du Soleil Gets Stalking Horse

In response to the disruption and forced show closures as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group has filed for protection from creditors in Canada – under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement

Datasite: AI to Speed Up M&A

According to Datasite, over the next five years new technologies, including artificial intelligence, will transform the mergers and acquisitions process by decreasing the time it takes to perform due diligence to less than a month

Gryphon takes majority stake in Microsoft Azure advisory, services provider 3Cloud

San Francisco private equity house Gryphon Investors has completed a majority investment in Microsoft Azure cloud platform advisory and technical services provider 3Cloud.

EMPEA adds to board of directors

Opalesque Industry Update - EMPEA, the global industry association for private capital in emerging markets, today announced the appointment of Bill Ford, Chief Executive Officer of General Atlantic, and Suyi Kim, Head of Asia Pacific

How a former navy seal helped launch nearly 60 start-ups this year

Among the firm’s investors are some of its team members, family offices, high net worth individuals, and other LPs

Bank dividends face manageable stresses but there are some wildcards

Regulators signalled that they will keep monitoring banks’ balance-sheet strength as economic conditions change, and they hold the options of extending the dividend caps and buyback suspensions

Veteran Missouri pension investor Kelly joins PennSERS as new CIO

Veteran Missouri state pension investment specialist Seth Kelly has joined the $31.1bn-managing Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System as its new CIO.

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