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
The Connecticut pension system began building its private-credit portfolio with $463 million in commitments across various strategies
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
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
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
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 state pension investment specialist Seth Kelly has joined the $31.1bn-managing Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System as its new CIO.
The US pension manager plans to invest more capital and add more managers to its private equity portfolio
AI-automated sports production business Pixellot has picked up a $16m investment round led by current backed Shamrock Capital Advisors.
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board has named Karen Frank as its new senior managing director of equities. Beginning in Fall 2020, Ms. Frank will lead the group’s equities department and will report to Chief Investment
Ontario Teachers Pension Plan (OTPP) has appointed Karen Frank as senior managing director.
The firm also sued BlackRock and Cliffwater, a firm that assisted the state pension with investment decisions, alleging they profited at Blueprint’s expense
Canadian pension giant Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec has reinvested in architecture and design house Lemay in the form of an $8.7m loan.
Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: European pension funds are earmarking more money to be invested in climate-linked passive assets, as a survey of pension plans finds that over half still have no allocation at all toward
The plan made its first investment in a Brookfield Asset Management fund and committed almost $1bn to existing private equity managers
Near-record low interest rates have lowered the returns on the assets while increasing the present value of liabilities to future retirees or charitable institutions
Osceola Capital has held a hard cap and above target close of its inaugural fund with an oversubscribed $125 million of capital. Limited partners in the new fund include public pension plans, financial institutions, a
Swedish pension fund AMF, bank SEB and foundation-backed asset manager FAM have launched an SEK3.5bn investment company to back Swedish businesses struggling to make it through the coronavirus crisis.
Most firms have a lot of work to do if they want to attract Americans’ retirement savings
In the fourth of Unquote's Lockdown series, Delaney Brown, managing director and head of PE funds at Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), discusses improved GP/LP relations since lockdown began and how there are no
Calpers made the investment as part of $3.9bn in commitments to private equity funds and separate accounts targeting credit investments
