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TPG, OTPP pull out of $2.1bn Fairfax bidThe pair have ditched plans to acquire Fairfax Media assets – real estate arm Domain, Australian Metro Media and its Events and Digital Ventures unit– after conducting due diligence.
- TPG, OTPP to acquire Fairfax Media for $1.9bn
The transaction involves splitting the Australian media empire’s businesses including its three largest newspapers, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review.
- OTPP’s Ron Mock: ‘Where do we continue to hunt?’
The $128bn pension manager said the greater adoption of the direct investment model globally is making the market much more competitive.
- Campbell Lutyens hires OTPP veteran
Following last month's hire of Gordon Bajnai, the former Prime Minister of Hungary, the firm has hired a veteran of Canada's third-largest public pension plan.
- CalPERS considers merging PE with public equities
The US’s largest public pension wants to follow the example of its large Canadian counterparts.
- OTPP posts low private equity returns
The Canadian pension plan’s private equity portfolio generated single-digit returns in 2016.
- OTPP posts lowest private equity return since 2009
The Canadian pension plan’s private equity portfolio generated single-digit returns in 2016, mainly due to currency movements.
- ‘Greenwashing’ just got harder
As LPs in the world’s largest private fund market start to embrace ESG, it is becoming harder to get away with ‘all talk and no action’ on responsible investment.
- Privately Speaking: Orlando Bravo
Thoma Bravo just closed Fund XII on $7.6bn, twice the size of its predecessor. Managing partner Orlando Bravo talks about how the firm evolved from a generalist private equity shop to a software specialist, and his own role in that transformation.
- OTPP names senior MD for global operations
Jo Taylor has been appointed as the senior managing director, international, for the $130bn Canadian pension fund, in what is a newly-created leadership role.