Private Equity

In muted IPO market, OTPP’s venture growth team talks exit alternatives

In a bid to support portfolio companies in Teachers’ Venture Growth allocation, the pension fund convened a discussion on how founders and CEOs can optimise their exit.

Sarah RundellFebruary 20, 2025

AP funds reform: Expanded opportunity in private equity

Sarah RundellFebruary 13, 2025

Finland’s VER reflects on how to enliven European venture capital

Sarah RundellOctober 8, 2024

Private equity: Florida SBA mulls CFOs as alternative to secondaries

Sarah RundellJuly 23, 2024

CalPERS extols the benefits of co-investment in private equity

Sarah RundellJuly 4, 2024

LGPS ACCESS pushes deeper into private markets as pooling inches forward

ACCESS, the United Kingdom's £35 billion Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) pool, is seeking two private equity managers in its latest push into private markets following mandates to infrastructure and real estate managers in the last year.

Sarah RundellMay 14, 2024

Investor Profile

Looking for the exit: Oregon battles overweight allocations to illiquids

Oregon Investment Council’s exposure to private markets has been a great source of excess returns over the years, but today the overweight allocation to illiquid markets is a growing concern with ramifications for liquidity particularly.

Sarah RundellMay 8, 2024

Featured Story

Private equity angst at Oregon

A stubbornly high exposure, lacklustre M&A deals and exit activity as well as a slowdown in fundraising and deployment and market volatility creating benchmarking havoc have all conspired to cause consternation in the Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund's private equity allocation.

Sarah RundellFebruary 1, 2024

Featured Story

Norway’s GPFG argues the case for private equity – again

NBIM has petitioned politicians to let it invest in private equity - again. Arguing for a 3-5 per cent allocation with large managers in developed markets, NBIM recognises it will be unable to cap fees like in its other allocations and will curb costs by developing a co-investment program.

Sarah RundellDecember 14, 2023

Sustainability Oxford 2023

Private equity well positioned to decarbonise portfolios, but still lagging

Private equity has the potential to play a strong role in decarbonising portfolios, but many funds are lagging both in transparency and in action towards net zero, investors from Harvard and Oxford endowments and the French fund Caisse de Depots said.

Ben HurleyNovember 30, 2023