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NYSCRF commits $2.7bn to private equity

The New York State Common Retirement Fund has backed five private equity funds.

1 min read · 22 January 2025

BCV hires fintech specialist Fiorentino away from Index

In nearly six years at Index, Fiorentino led investments in more than 10 companies that raised follow-on funding, including RevenueCat, Loop and Pomelo, among others.

2 min read · 22 January 2025

Alameda County pension to adjust PE strategy, speed up continuation fund approval process

The proposals, to be voted on in February, include the recategorization of certain private equity assets, the removal of sub-asset class benchmarks and the implementation of new sub-asset class targets.

3 min read · 21 January 2025

Thoma Bravo racks up $3.6bn for third credit fund

Credit Fund III targets the senior secured debt of enterprise software companies.

1 min read · 21 January 2025

Side Letter: Reinventing the PE-el?

Why some in private equity consider LTAFs to be a reinvention of the wheel. Plus: Coller sets up shop in Singapore. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

3 min read · 21 January 2025

Co-investment strikes the fetters from private equity investing

Co-investment is a chance to seize opportunities that don’t fit the all-too-often narrow strictures of traditional private equity fund investment; fear of style drift misses this point, argues Houlihan Lokey's Matt Swain.

4 min read · 21 January 2025

Factor rising inequality into asset allocation decisions, says IMCO

Inequality is starting to be recognised more broadly by investors as an emerging area of systemic risk; it should be on institutional investors' radars, according to the large Canadian investors' latest research paper.

4 min read · 20 January 2025

Side Letter: Carry tax winners

It's MLK Day in the US today so we have a slightly truncated Side Letter for readers: the winners from Britain's carry tax increase; a $10bn family office seeks "boring" investments; and Aussie superfund Hostplus has a new deputy CIO. Here's today's brief, for our valued subscribers only.

5 min read · 20 January 2025

Sky Island Capital wraps up sophomore fund at $300m

Fund II's LPs include insurance companies, foundations, family offices, endowments, and fund of funds.

1 min read · 17 January 2025

Private equity fundraising timelines hit a record 19 months in 2024

Because of the supply crunch, GPs have since 2022 been keeping their funds open longer, hoping to wait out LPs with liquidity issues caused by overallocation and weak distributions.

2 min read · 17 January 2025

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