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Goldman completes ABN AMRO secondaries dealAAC Capital Partners, the former ABN AMRO buyout team, has secured €950m for further acquisitions from investors including Goldman Sachs, the CPPIB, AlpInvest and Adams Street.
- FountainVest raises $1bn China-focused fund
The Chinese private equity firm was set up last year by former senior executives at Singapore's Temasek, which is an anchor investor in the fund.
- OMERS establishes first foreign office in London
The C$52bn Canadian pension plan with an in-house private equity arm has followed in the footsteps of Ontario Teachers’ and the CPPIB by crossing the pond to source deals.
- CPPIB chooses Bank of Montreal board director as chairman
Former Sun Life Financial Canada president Robert Astley will succeed longtime director Gail Cook-Bennett as head of the C$128bn Canadian pension's in-house investment arm.
- Goldman, RBS commit €1bn to AAC Capital
The two banks have committed €500m each to a new AAC Capital Partners fund seeded with 11 warehoused investments.
- CPPIB private equity assets hit $14bn
Private equity now makes up 11 percent of the Canadian pension’s capital under management, which has grown to nearly $128bn. The CPPIB has narrowly bucked the loss-making trend among North American pension funds, recording a 1 percent total return on investments in the three months ended in June.
- Market volatility rocks CPPIB returns, private equity remains bright spot
The Canadian pension has been hit by turbulence in the public equities and REIT markets, but its alternatives fared well in 2007, with infrastructure leading the way.
- Private equity-backed wind power company files IPO
Noble Environmental Power, a JPMorgan Partners and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board portfolio company, has filed for a $375m initial public offering on the Nasdaq.
- Advent raises €6.6bn
The global mid-market buyout firm attracted interest nearly double its planned €5bn target, but it scaled back the fund giving existing limited partners priority.
- Ontario Teachers’ eyes Prague airport
The Canadian pension has confirmed it’s looking to increase its infrastructure assets with the addition of a second European airport to its portfolio.