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OMERS’ private equity portfolio outperforms in 2016The Canadian pension fund successfully sold several portfolio companies to private equity firms last year.
- Private equity is OMERS’ best-performing asset class
The asset class’s performance improved in 2016 from the previous year, when it posted a 10% net return.
- Future Fund ups PE exposure
The Australian sovereign wealth fund’s private equity exposure increased by another $1bn in 2016.
- OMERS PE seals first European exit
The Canadian pension will be reinvesting in V Group alongside global buyout house Advent International.
- Terra Firma seals first deal since 2012
The acquisition of Welcome Hotels will be the first deal-by-deal transaction for the Guy Hands-led firm.
- Terra Firma to sell Infinis landfill gas assets to 3i Infra
The Guy Hands-led firm first floated parent company Infinis Group in 2013 and subsequently rebought the shares.
- OMERS: Brexit has ‘raised the bar’ for UK investments
Despite challenges, the UK will remain a ‘safe haven’ for investment, says global private equity head Mark Redman.
- Revealed: industry insiders’ summer reading
We asked our readers to guess what some of the private equity industry’s most influential insiders are reading this summer. How many did you get right?
- LP Special: Fantasy five
If a GP could hand pick their perfect investor team, it might look a little something like this.
- GPIF’s $52bn loss could strengthen the case for alternatives
Japan's $1.3trn pension fund, which reported its weakest results since the 2008 financial crisis, could face fresh calls to raise its current holdings of alternative assets.