The Ontario Teachers Pension Plan has agreed to lead a $360m investment in Singapore-based data centre business Princeton Digital Group, which includes capital from existing backer Warburg Pincus.
The nation’s biggest public pension fund is consistently short of the billions of dollars it needs to pay all retirees their pensions. It seeks higher returns.
HarbourVest Partners has held an oversubscribed and hard cap close of its latest secondaries fund, Dover Street X LP (Dover X), with $8.1 billion of capital commitments. The hard cap close of Dover X follows
Long Ridge Equity Partners has held an oversubscribed, hard cap, and final closing of Long Ridge Equity Partners III LP with $445 million of capital commitments. Limited partners in the new fund committed $400 million
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Consolidation across defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) schemes is the most-anticipated trend for the UK pensions industry over the next five years, the Pensions and Lifetime S...Article Link
Ant Group’s IPO suspension was a big blow to many: the fintech giant itself, the banks that worked on its mammoth transaction and the investors that were salivating to get a piece of the company’s
Plexus Capital has held a final above target close of Plexus Fund V LP with $502 million of capital. Like its earlier funds, Fund V will invest up to $40 million in profitable US-based companies
The Texas Municipal Retirement System has set up a multiyear co-investment account with HarbourVest Partners
Blue Sage Capital has held a final, oversubscribed, and above target closing of its third fund, Blue Sage Capital III LP, with capital of $300 million. Blue Sage’s earlier fund closed in December 2012 with
The $204bn-managing Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan has expanded its Asian investment potential with the launch of its new Singapore office.
Global pension fund giant The National Pension Service of Korea has teamed up with asset manager Keppel Capital to hunt down infrastructure investment opportunities in Asia.
A dispute between Sun Capital Partners and a Teamsters pension fund could have important repercussions for the industry. Lawyers say a decision could come as early as next month
The public pension fund’s board takes on shared responsibility for hiring and evaluating its investment chief
The former global PE head of $109bn-managing pension giant OMERS has been hired by Aberdeen Standard Investments to replace long-standing global head of private markets Peter McKellar.
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Regulatory approaches to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing by pension funds are increasingly diverging between the U.S. and the European Union and the U.K. and could affect ...Article Link
The $434bn-managing Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has named Edwin Cass as its first dedicated chief investment officer.
Benford Capital Partners has held a final closing of its inaugural private equity investment fund, Benford Capital Partners Fund I LP. The new fund closed with total limited partner commitments of $130 million, markedly above
The portfolio of Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board fell 8.3% in value on Covid-19 fallout, but the pension system expects it to recover that and more
GI Partners has held a final closing of its inaugural Data Infrastructure Fund LP, with $1.8 billion in capital. The new fund was oversubscribed and beat its target of $1.25 billion. Investors in the Data
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Assets under management (AUM) at the world&`s 300 largest pension funds increased in value by 8.0% to a total of $19.5trn in 2019, compared to the 0.4% decline in the previous
