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Industry consolidation: New investor classes drive acquisitions and partnershipsThe top force fuelling M&A among private markets managers is the ambition to become as relevant to private wealth and insurance money tomorrow as institutional capital today.
Private equity better suited to non-retirement portfolios than 401(k)s – Franklin TempletonThe litigious and fee-sensitive nature of the DC market will make it slow to adopt private market investments, says the firm's president and CEO Jenny Johnson.
EBRD commits €40m to Franklin TempletonThe London-based bank backed Templeton Turkey Fund II.
Franklin Templeton leans on wealth channel for alternatives pushAlts now account for nearly one-fifth of the firm’s $1.37trn assets under management, driven by manager acquisitions and inflows from the wealth channel.
Story of the year: Brookfield’s Oaktree acquisitionThe $475bn combined AUM of the firms brings scale across alternative asset classes neither have achieved on their own.
CalPERS to launch directs programme – updatedThe programme – which will comprise two funds and launch in the first half of next year – could drive the fund's annual PE deployment to $13bn.
- CalPERS’ CIO exit is latest in executive departures
Ted Eliopoulos, who has been at the US's largest public pension for more than one decade, will step away by the start of 2019.
Tollette exits the CalPERS spotlightWylie Tollette’s tenure as COIO at the $340bn California pension fund has not been without controversy.
CalPERS names interim Chief Operating Investment OfficerCurrent COIO Wylie Tollette will depart in January 2018.
Templeton closes Fund IV on $220mFund IV has made three investments totaling $59m to date.