San Bernardino pledges $40 mln to Aberdeen secondaries fund, clears pacing planPosted: 12/28/2018 |
Subscription Required San Bernardino County Employees’ Retirement Association’s investment committee committed $40 million to a PE secondaries fund managed by Aberdeen Standard Investments, while also approving a pacing plan that would commit another $500 million to the asset class in 2019. The $10.4 billion retirement plan has a target allocation of 16 percent to private equity with […] | | Read more... | |
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Endowments eye special situations, growth equity for 2019Posted: 12/27/2018 |
Subscription Required Endowments and foundations are optimistic about private markets going into 2019 and they view special-situations and growth-equity strategies as offering the most medium-term upside, a recent survey by NEPC shows. Endowments and foundations remain fairly bullish on private equity, although expectations seem to have tempered a bit: 51 percent of respondents said PE would outperform other […] | | Read more... | |
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Fresh Profile: Arlon Group invests in potatoes, pizzas and all things foodPosted: 12/27/2018 |
Subscription Required Arlon Group is the investment office of the Fribourg family, reportedly one of the oldest business dynasties in New York. Simon Fribourg in 1813 founded a small grain-trading company in Arlon, Belgium. More than a century later the family brought Continental Grain Co to the U.S. with an office in New York and a seat on the Chicago Board of Trade […] | | Read more... | |
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Emerging Manager Roundup: Perceptive, Reverence, ADV, Matrix and morePosted: 12/26/2018 |
Subscription Required Emerging managers raised more than $3.3 billion in the past few weeks. Six private equity firms and one venture capital firm raised over $100 million. Sophomore opportunities funds seemed to be popular among active PE fundraisers. Perceptive Advisors led all money raised, closing its second credit opportunities fund at $675 million. Reverence Capital was just […] | | Read more... | |
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Five Questions with Ethan Vogelhut of Schroder AdveqPosted: 12/26/2018 |
Subscription Required Schroder Adveq, a global asset manager, invests in U.S. small and middle-market buyouts through various strategies. Ethan Vogelhut, head of buyout investments Americas, spoke with ActiveLPs. What kind of managers does Schroder invest with? We invest in small- and middle-market buyouts because we believe they have better pricing and returns. We invest in primary, co-investment […] | | Read more... | |
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LPs feel pressure to close in primary, co-investing commitments as speed is seen as keyPosted: 12/21/2018 |
Subscription Required Many LPs requested co-investment deals this year, but few executed those opportunities in 2018, according to Hamilton Lane’s GP Dashboard for 2018/2019. More than 105 GPs, two-thirds (66 percent) of them from North America, with a total of $1.2 trillion assets in management, participated in the survey. Indeed, a majority of GPs whose LPs asked to see co-investment deals […] | | Read more... | |
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Commission urges PA pensions to reduce illiquids, create central investment officePosted: 12/20/2018 |
Subscription Required A central investment office would create synergies for assets managed by Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System and Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System. And the agencies should revisit and reduce their allocations to illiquids because the asset class could cause problems during volatile periods. These recommendations were announced Dec. 20 by Rep. Mike Tobash (R-Pennsylvania), […] | | Read more... | |
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CalPERS staff calls for less transparency for proposed in-house PE programPosted: 12/19/2018 |
Subscription Required California Public Employees’ Retirement System’s two new proposed private equity vehicles would need to be less transparent than the rest of the pension system to be able to properly make private investments, according to investment staff at the system’s December meeting. General Counsel Matthew Jacobs said at the CalPERS board meeting this month that too […] | | Read more... | |
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Texas Municipal re-ups with Updata, closes year with $457 mln in PE commitmentsPosted: 12/19/2018 |
Subscription Required Texas Municipal Retirement System at its Dec. 6 meeting re-upped $50 million to Updata Partners’ sixth fund, targeting $300 million. The pension system, which started its PE program in late 2015, committed $457 million to 10 PE funds, 8.6 percent under its $500 million pacing for 2018. Eight commitments were re-ups while CapVest Partners and Main Post Partners were new relationships […] | | Read more... | |
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Rhode Island deepens relationship with Nautic PartnersPosted: 12/18/2018 |
Subscription Required Rhode Island State Investment Commission at its Dec. 12 meeting re-upped $50 million to Nautic Partners’ ninth fund, targeting $1.25 billion. The re-up is substantially larger than its commitments to previous Nautic funds. The commission committed $20 million to each of Nautic’s fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth funds. “That’s the amount we have been commiting […] | | Read more... | |
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